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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
50 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
51 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
54 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
55 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
58 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
59 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
60 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
61 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
62 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
63 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
64 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
65 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
66 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
67 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
68 checks in some libraries.
69 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
70 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
71 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
72 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
75 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
76 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
77 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
78 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
82 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
85 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
86 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
87 over missing/cancelled values.
88 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
90 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
91 cancelled string capabilities.
92 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
93 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
94 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
95 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
96 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
97 as input (Redhat #1484274).
98 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
99 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
101 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
102 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
103 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
104 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
105 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
106 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
108 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
112 + update "iterm" entry -TD
113 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
114 + regenerate llib-* files.
115 + regenerate HTML manpages.
116 + improve picsmap test-program:
117 + reduce memory used for tsearch
118 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
119 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
121 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
122 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
123 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
124 + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
127 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
129 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
130 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
132 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
133 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
134 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
135 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
136 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
137 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
138 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
139 current screen is marked for clearing.
140 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
142 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
143 on demand up to the existing limit.
144 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
145 improve color_content().
146 + improve picsmap test-program:
147 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
148 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
149 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
150 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
151 + add "-l" option for logging
152 + add "-d" option for debugging
153 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
155 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
156 + update config.guess, config.sub from
157 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
160 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
161 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
162 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
163 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
165 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
166 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
167 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
168 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
169 parameters for a capability and the actual.
170 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
171 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
172 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
173 alternate character set is enabled.
174 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
175 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
176 tack for memory-leak checking.
177 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
178 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
179 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
180 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
181 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
182 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
183 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
184 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
185 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
186 extended capability arrays.
187 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
190 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
191 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
192 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
193 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
194 term-driver configuration.
195 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
196 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
197 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
198 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
199 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
200 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
203 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
204 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
205 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
206 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
208 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
209 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
212 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
213 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
216 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
217 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
218 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
219 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
220 configuration; none is needed.
221 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
222 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
223 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
224 not work (cf: 20160213).
225 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
226 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
227 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
228 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
229 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
230 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
231 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
232 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
233 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
234 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
235 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
236 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
237 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
238 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
239 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
240 (report by Allen Hewes).
243 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
244 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
245 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
246 (report by Allen Hewes).
247 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
248 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
249 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
250 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
251 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
252 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
253 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
254 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
255 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
258 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
259 (report by Allen Hewes).
260 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
261 to help with leak checking.
262 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
264 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
265 cannot be initialized.
268 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
269 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
270 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
273 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
275 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
276 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
277 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
278 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
279 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
282 + improved test/picsmap.c:
283 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
284 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
285 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
288 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
289 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
290 related files can be checked with lintian.
291 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
294 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
295 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
296 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
297 changed (cf: 20170311).
298 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
301 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
302 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
303 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
304 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
305 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
306 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
307 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
308 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
311 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
312 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
313 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
314 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
315 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
316 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
317 for better compatibility with other implementations.
318 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
319 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
320 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
321 + update config.guess, config.sub from
322 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
325 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
326 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
328 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
329 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
330 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
331 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
332 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
333 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
334 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
335 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
336 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
337 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
338 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
339 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
340 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
341 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
342 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
343 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
344 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
345 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
346 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
347 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
348 preference to "%02" on output.
349 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
350 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
351 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
354 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
355 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
356 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
358 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
359 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
360 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
361 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
362 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
363 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
366 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
368 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
369 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
370 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
374 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
375 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
376 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
377 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
378 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
379 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
380 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
381 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
382 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
384 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
385 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
386 calls to get original tty-modes.
387 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
388 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
390 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
391 reduce compiler warnings.
392 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
393 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
394 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
395 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
396 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
397 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
398 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
399 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
400 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
401 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
402 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
405 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
406 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
407 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
409 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
410 called (report by "Kau").
411 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
414 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
415 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
416 rather than using def_prog_mode().
417 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
418 externals that are used by tack.
419 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
420 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
421 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
423 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
424 + regenerate man-html documentation.
427 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
428 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
429 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
430 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
431 terminal emulators -TD
432 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
434 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
435 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
436 8-bit limit on colors
437 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
438 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
439 free_pair() functions
440 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
443 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
444 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
445 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
446 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
448 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
451 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
454 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
455 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
456 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
457 treated as only absent.
458 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
459 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
460 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
463 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
464 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
465 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
466 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
467 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
468 --enable-sp-funcs option.
469 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
470 without modifying API/ABI.
471 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
472 similar options for the other libraries.
475 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
477 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
478 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
479 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
480 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
481 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
482 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
483 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
484 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
487 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
488 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
489 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
490 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
491 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
492 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
493 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
496 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
497 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
498 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
499 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
500 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
501 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
502 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
504 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
505 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
508 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
509 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
510 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
511 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
512 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
516 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
517 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
518 either reset- or init-strings.
519 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
520 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
521 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
522 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
523 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
524 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
525 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
526 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
527 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
528 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
529 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
530 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
533 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
534 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
535 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
536 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
537 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
538 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
539 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
540 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
542 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
543 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
544 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
545 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
547 + update config.guess, config.sub from
548 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
551 + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
552 (patch by Leon Winter).
553 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
554 patch by Mihail Konev).
555 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
556 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
560 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
561 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
562 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
563 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
564 did not work after changes in 20130112.
567 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
568 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
569 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
570 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
571 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
572 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
574 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
577 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
578 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
581 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
583 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
584 reverse-video control -TD
585 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
586 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
587 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
588 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
589 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
590 video escape without using a delay.
591 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
592 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
596 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
597 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
598 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
599 by various discussions including
600 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
603 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
604 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
605 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
606 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
609 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
610 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
613 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
616 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
617 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
618 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
619 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
620 not optional in tput.
621 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
622 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
623 for transformed names.
624 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
625 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
628 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
629 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
630 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
631 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
633 + regenerate llib-* files.
634 + regenerate HTML manpages.
635 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
638 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
639 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
640 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
643 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
644 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
646 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
647 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
650 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
651 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
652 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
655 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
656 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
659 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
661 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
662 page (patch by Leon Winter).
663 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
664 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
665 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
666 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
667 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
670 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
672 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
673 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
675 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
676 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
677 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
678 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
682 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
684 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
686 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
687 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
688 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
689 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
690 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
691 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
692 + update config.guess, config.sub from
693 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
696 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
697 modes by sharing functions with tset.
698 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
699 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
700 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
701 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
703 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
706 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
707 handle a case of "configure && make install".
708 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
709 in sed (Debian #818067).
712 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
713 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
714 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
715 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
717 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
718 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
722 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
723 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
724 output or error are redirected.
725 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
729 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
730 redirected to a file or pipe.
731 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
734 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
736 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
737 for special keys, based on xterm.
740 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given.
743 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
744 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
745 work (report by Sven Joachim).
748 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
749 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
750 to make it more readable.
753 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
754 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
755 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
756 better testing of function-keys.
757 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
758 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
759 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
760 that could be returned -TD
761 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
764 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
765 + add test/list_keys.c
768 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
769 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
772 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
773 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
774 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
775 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
776 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
777 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
778 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
779 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
780 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
781 cannot combine -c and -o options.
784 + regenerate HTML manpages.
785 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
786 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
787 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
788 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
789 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
790 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
793 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
794 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
796 + modify test/ncurses.c:
797 + check return-value of putwin
798 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
799 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
800 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
803 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
804 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
805 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
806 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
810 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
811 PIC builds documented in
812 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
813 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
814 due to program-transformation configure options.
815 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
818 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
819 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
822 + regenerate HTML manpages.
823 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
827 + regenerate HTML manpages.
828 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
829 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
830 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
831 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
832 can handle the event.
835 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
836 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
837 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
838 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
841 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
842 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
843 as responding to window size-changes.
846 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
847 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
850 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
851 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
852 in case weak symbols are used.
853 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
854 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
856 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
857 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
858 + update config.guess, config.sub from
859 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
862 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
863 in threaded configuration.
864 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
865 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
868 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
869 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
870 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
874 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
875 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
876 unwanted blank lines.
879 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
880 (report by Corey Minyard).
881 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
884 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
885 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
886 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
887 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
889 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
890 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
891 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
893 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
894 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
897 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
898 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
899 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
900 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
903 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
904 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
905 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
908 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
910 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
912 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
913 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
916 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
917 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
918 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
919 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
920 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
921 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
922 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
923 drawing characters as double-width.
926 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
927 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
928 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
929 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
930 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
931 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
932 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
933 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
937 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
939 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
941 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
942 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
943 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
944 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
945 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
948 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
949 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
950 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
951 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
954 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
955 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
956 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
957 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
958 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
960 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
961 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
962 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
963 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
964 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
967 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
968 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
969 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
970 install time (cf: 20150822).
971 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
972 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
973 empty "local" section.
974 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
975 to incorrect attribute-masking.
978 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
979 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
980 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
981 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
982 did not display well.
983 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
984 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
985 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
986 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
987 Normand, Novell #946048).
988 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
989 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
990 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
991 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
992 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
993 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
995 + update config.guess, config.sub from
996 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
999 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
1000 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
1001 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
1002 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
1003 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
1004 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
1005 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
1006 + support building with libtool on OS/2
1007 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
1008 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
1011 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
1012 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
1013 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
1014 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
1016 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
1017 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
1018 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
1021 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
1023 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
1024 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
1027 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
1029 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
1030 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
1031 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
1032 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1035 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
1037 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
1038 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
1039 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
1040 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
1041 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
1042 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
1044 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
1047 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
1049 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
1050 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
1051 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
1053 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
1054 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
1057 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
1059 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
1060 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
1061 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
1062 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
1063 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
1067 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
1068 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
1069 + update release notes in INSTALL.
1070 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
1073 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
1074 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
1075 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
1077 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1080 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
1081 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
1082 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
1083 more than 200 snapshots.
1084 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
1088 + updated llib-* files.
1089 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
1090 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
1092 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1093 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
1094 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
1095 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
1096 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
1097 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
1098 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
1101 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
1102 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
1103 curs_initscr.3x page.
1104 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
1105 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
1106 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
1108 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
1109 e.g., ncursestw library.
1112 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
1113 configuration of ncurses6.
1114 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
1115 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
1116 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
1117 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
1118 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1121 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
1122 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
1123 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
1126 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
1128 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
1129 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
1130 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
1131 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
1132 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
1133 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
1134 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
1135 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
1136 setupterm and restartterm functions.
1137 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
1138 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
1139 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
1143 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
1144 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
1145 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
1146 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
1147 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
1148 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
1149 discussion with Sven Joachim).
1150 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1152 20150606 pre-release
1153 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
1154 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
1155 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
1156 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
1157 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
1158 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
1159 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
1160 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
1161 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
1162 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
1163 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
1164 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
1165 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
1166 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
1169 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
1170 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
1171 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
1172 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
1173 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
1174 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
1175 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
1176 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
1179 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
1180 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
1181 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
1182 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
1183 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
1185 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
1186 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
1189 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
1190 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
1191 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
1192 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
1194 + regenerate html manpages.
1195 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
1196 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
1197 Stack Overflow forum):
1200 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
1201 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
1202 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
1203 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
1204 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
1208 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
1209 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
1210 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
1211 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
1212 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
1214 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
1215 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1216 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
1217 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
1218 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
1219 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
1221 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
1222 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
1223 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
1224 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
1225 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
1226 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
1228 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
1229 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
1231 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
1232 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
1234 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
1235 the ncurses library aside from headers.
1236 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
1237 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
1238 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
1239 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
1240 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1241 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1244 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
1245 (report by Todd M Lewis).
1246 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
1247 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
1248 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
1249 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
1250 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
1251 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
1253 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1254 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
1255 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1256 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
1257 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
1258 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
1259 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
1262 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
1263 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
1264 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
1265 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
1266 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
1267 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
1268 with the shared libraries.
1269 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
1270 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
1271 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
1272 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
1273 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
1274 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
1275 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
1276 inherit into new windows.
1279 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
1280 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
1281 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
1282 readonly text segment.
1285 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
1286 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
1289 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
1290 the extended putwin/getwin.
1291 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
1293 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
1297 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
1298 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
1299 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
1300 for a magic code at the beginning:
1301 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
1304 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
1306 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
1307 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
1310 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
1311 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
1312 (report by Grady Martin).
1315 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
1316 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
1317 the wide-character libraries.
1318 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
1320 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
1321 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
1324 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
1325 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
1326 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
1330 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
1331 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
1334 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
1335 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
1336 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
1337 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
1338 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
1341 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
1342 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
1343 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
1346 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
1347 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
1348 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
1350 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
1351 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
1352 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
1353 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
1354 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
1355 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1356 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1357 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1358 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1359 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1362 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1363 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1364 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1365 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1366 variations in ABI 6.
1369 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1370 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1374 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1378 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1379 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1380 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1381 the ABI 5 libraries.
1382 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1383 regenerate html-manpages.
1386 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1387 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1389 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1390 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1391 package for ncurses6.
1392 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1393 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1394 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1395 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1396 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1397 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1401 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1402 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1403 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1404 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1405 gcc introduced here:
1406 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1407 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1408 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1409 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1412 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1413 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1414 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1415 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
1416 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
1419 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
1420 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
1421 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
1422 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
1423 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
1424 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
1425 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
1429 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
1430 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
1434 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
1435 msys2 configuration.
1438 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
1439 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
1440 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
1441 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
1442 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
1444 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
1445 (report by Mike Gran).
1448 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
1449 demonstration of its limitations.
1450 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
1451 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
1452 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
1453 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
1454 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
1455 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
1456 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
1458 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
1459 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
1462 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
1463 + implement flash in win_driver.c
1464 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
1466 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
1467 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
1468 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
1469 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
1470 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
1471 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
1472 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
1473 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
1476 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
1477 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
1478 some older cross-compiler environments.
1479 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
1480 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
1481 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
1482 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
1483 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
1484 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
1485 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
1486 + update config.sub from
1487 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1490 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
1491 C++ cross-compilers.
1492 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
1495 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
1497 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
1500 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
1501 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
1502 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
1505 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
1506 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
1510 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
1511 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
1512 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
1515 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
1516 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
1517 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
1518 + regenerated html manpages.
1519 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
1520 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
1521 which reverses cause/effect.
1522 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
1523 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
1524 + fixes for win_driver.c:
1525 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
1530 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
1531 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
1532 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
1533 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
1535 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
1536 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
1537 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
1538 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
1542 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
1543 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
1544 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
1545 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
1546 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
1547 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
1548 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
1549 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
1550 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
1553 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
1554 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
1555 options, from xterm changes.
1558 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
1559 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
1563 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
1564 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
1567 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
1568 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
1569 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
1570 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
1571 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
1572 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
1573 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
1576 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
1577 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
1578 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
1579 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
1580 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
1581 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
1582 providing directly comparable screens.
1583 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
1586 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
1588 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
1589 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
1590 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
1591 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
1592 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
1593 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
1594 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
1597 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
1598 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1599 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
1600 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
1601 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
1604 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
1605 overlap with sgr functionality.
1606 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
1607 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
1608 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
1609 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
1610 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
1611 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
1612 older ncurses than 20131207.
1613 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
1614 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
1615 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
1616 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
1617 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
1620 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
1621 environment variable.
1622 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
1623 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
1624 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
1625 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
1626 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
1627 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
1628 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
1629 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
1630 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
1631 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
1632 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
1633 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
1634 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
1635 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
1637 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
1639 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
1640 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
1641 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
1643 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
1644 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
1645 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
1646 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
1647 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
1648 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
1649 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
1651 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
1653 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
1654 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
1655 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
1656 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
1657 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
1658 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
1659 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
1660 to be consecutive anyway.
1661 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
1662 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
1663 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
1664 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
1667 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
1668 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
1669 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
1672 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
1673 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
1674 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
1675 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1678 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
1680 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
1681 simplify later merging:
1682 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
1683 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
1684 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
1685 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
1686 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
1690 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1691 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1694 + modify configure script:
1695 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
1696 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
1697 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
1698 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
1699 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
1700 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
1701 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
1702 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
1703 "#win32console", and
1704 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
1705 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
1708 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
1709 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
1710 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
1711 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
1712 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
1713 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
1717 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1720 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
1721 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
1722 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
1723 + add terminology entry -TD
1724 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
1725 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
1728 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
1729 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
1730 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
1731 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
1732 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1736 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1737 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1738 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1739 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1740 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1743 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1746 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1747 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1748 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1752 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1753 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1754 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1755 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1756 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1757 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1759 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1760 html emitted by docbook.
1763 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1764 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1765 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1766 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1769 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1770 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1771 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1772 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1773 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1774 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1777 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1778 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1779 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1780 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1783 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1784 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1787 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1789 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1792 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1793 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1794 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1795 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1797 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1799 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1800 + updated llib-l* files.
1803 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
1804 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
1808 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
1809 recognized by clang.
1812 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1813 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
1814 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
1815 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
1816 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
1817 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
1818 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1819 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
1820 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
1821 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
1822 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
1823 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
1825 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
1827 + update config.sub from
1828 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1831 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
1834 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
1835 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1836 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
1837 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
1839 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
1842 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
1843 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
1844 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
1845 them more consistent with other packages.
1848 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
1849 compiling ncurses-examples.
1850 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
1853 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
1856 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
1857 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
1858 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
1859 cross-compiles to MinGW.
1860 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
1864 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
1865 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1869 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1870 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1872 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1874 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1875 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1876 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1877 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1878 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1881 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1882 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1883 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1886 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1888 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1889 before/after Debian #700177.
1890 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1891 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1893 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1894 of sort, improving portability.
1895 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1896 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1897 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1900 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1901 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1903 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1904 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1905 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1908 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1909 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1910 introduced by Debian #700177.
1911 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1912 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1915 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1916 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1918 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1919 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1920 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1923 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1924 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1926 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1927 cross-compile support packages.
1928 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1931 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1932 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1933 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1934 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1935 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1936 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1937 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1938 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1939 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1940 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1941 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1942 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1945 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1946 initialization of cur_term.
1949 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
1950 + minor compiler-warning fixes
1953 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
1954 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
1955 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
1956 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
1957 --enable-auto-import flag.
1958 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
1962 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
1963 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
1964 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
1965 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
1966 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
1968 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
1969 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
1970 (patch by Eric Raymond).
1973 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
1974 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
1975 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
1977 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
1978 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
1979 not printing the full pathname of the program.
1980 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
1981 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
1982 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
1985 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
1986 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
1988 + add test/dots_termcap.c
1989 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
1990 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
1991 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
1992 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
1993 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
1994 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
1995 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
1996 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
1997 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
1999 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
2000 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
2003 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
2004 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
2005 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
2006 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
2007 the left margin of the display.
2008 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
2009 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
2010 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
2011 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
2014 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
2015 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
2016 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
2017 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
2018 + regenerated html manpages.
2019 + update doctype used for html documentation.
2022 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
2023 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
2024 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
2025 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
2026 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
2027 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
2030 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2031 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
2032 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
2033 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
2034 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
2037 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
2038 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
2041 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
2042 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
2043 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2044 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
2045 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
2047 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
2048 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2049 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
2050 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2053 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
2054 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
2055 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
2056 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
2058 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
2060 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
2062 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
2065 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
2069 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
2070 (report by Christian Ebert).
2071 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
2072 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
2073 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
2076 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
2077 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
2078 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
2079 add bold for consistency with sgr,
2080 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
2081 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
2082 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
2083 by Benjamin Sittler)
2084 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
2085 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
2086 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
2087 line split after "%;".
2088 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
2089 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
2092 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
2093 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
2094 + regenerated html manpages.
2095 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
2096 + updated some autoconf macros:
2097 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
2098 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
2099 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
2100 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
2101 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
2102 configuration (Redhat #911540).
2103 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
2104 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
2107 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
2108 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
2110 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
2111 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
2113 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
2114 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
2115 of raw input in MinGW port.
2118 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
2119 + update config.guess, config.sub
2122 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
2124 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
2126 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
2127 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
2128 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
2129 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
2130 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2131 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
2132 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
2134 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
2135 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
2138 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
2139 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
2141 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
2142 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
2143 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
2146 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
2147 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
2148 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
2151 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
2152 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
2153 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
2154 help reduce flicker.
2155 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
2156 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
2157 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
2158 by Dennis Grevenstein).
2159 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
2160 Dennis Grevenstein).
2161 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
2162 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
2163 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
2166 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2167 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
2168 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
2169 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
2170 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
2171 + improve error-checking in copywin
2172 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
2173 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
2174 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
2175 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
2176 matching capability names.
2177 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
2178 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
2179 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
2182 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
2183 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
2184 are unused in the current driver model.
2185 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
2187 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
2188 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
2189 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
2190 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
2193 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
2194 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
2196 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
2197 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
2198 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
2199 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
2200 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
2203 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
2204 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
2205 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
2209 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
2211 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
2212 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
2214 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
2215 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
2216 wide-character which can be used.
2219 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
2220 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
2221 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
2222 by Erwin Waterlander).
2223 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
2224 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2225 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
2226 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
2227 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
2228 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
2232 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
2233 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
2234 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
2235 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
2236 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
2237 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2238 + remove a few redundant checks.
2239 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
2241 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
2242 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
2243 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
2244 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
2246 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
2247 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
2248 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
2252 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
2253 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
2254 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
2258 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
2259 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
2260 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2261 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
2264 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2265 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
2266 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
2267 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
2268 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
2269 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
2270 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
2271 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
2273 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
2274 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
2275 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
2276 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
2279 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
2280 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
2281 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
2283 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
2284 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
2285 libraries or executables.
2288 + realign these related pages:
2293 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
2294 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
2295 (report by Reuben Thomas).
2296 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
2297 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
2298 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
2299 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
2300 based on testing with tack -TD
2301 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
2302 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
2305 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
2307 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
2308 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
2309 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
2312 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
2316 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
2317 (patch by Christian Persch).
2320 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
2322 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
2323 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
2324 has used that for a while.
2325 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
2326 for experimental use.
2327 + remove unused configure macros.
2328 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
2329 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
2330 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
2331 + update config.guess, config.sub
2334 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
2335 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
2336 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
2337 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
2338 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
2339 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
2340 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
2343 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
2344 to help with MinGW port.
2347 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
2349 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
2352 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
2355 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2356 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2357 might not be allocated.
2358 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2361 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2362 initial screen-sizes.
2363 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2364 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2368 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2369 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2373 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2374 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2375 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2377 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2378 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2381 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2382 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2383 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2384 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2385 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2386 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2387 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2391 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2392 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2393 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2394 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2395 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2396 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2397 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2398 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2402 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2403 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2404 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2405 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2406 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2407 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2410 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2414 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
2416 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
2418 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
2419 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
2420 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
2421 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
2422 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
2423 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
2426 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
2428 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
2429 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
2430 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
2432 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
2433 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
2436 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
2437 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
2438 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
2441 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
2442 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
2444 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
2445 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
2447 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
2448 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
2451 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
2453 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
2454 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
2455 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
2456 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
2457 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
2458 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
2461 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
2462 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
2463 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
2464 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
2465 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
2466 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
2467 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
2468 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
2469 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
2471 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
2472 analysis by Martin Husemann).
2473 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
2474 Onno van der Linden).
2477 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
2479 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
2481 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
2482 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
2485 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
2486 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
2487 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
2488 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
2489 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
2490 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
2491 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
2494 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
2495 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
2496 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
2497 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
2498 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
2499 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
2500 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
2501 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
2502 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
2503 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
2504 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
2505 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
2506 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
2507 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
2508 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
2511 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
2512 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
2513 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
2514 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
2515 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
2516 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
2517 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
2518 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
2519 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
2520 are interpreted as key definitions.
2521 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
2522 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
2526 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
2527 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
2528 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
2529 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
2530 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
2531 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
2532 as building-blocks -TD
2533 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
2536 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
2537 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
2538 title is a status-line. -TD
2539 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
2540 of ordering and overrides -TD
2541 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
2542 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
2543 used in that file -TD
2546 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
2547 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
2548 definable capabilities.
2549 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
2550 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
2551 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
2552 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
2553 embedded in the description.
2554 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
2555 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
2556 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
2557 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
2558 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
2559 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
2562 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
2563 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
2564 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
2565 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
2566 Nicolas Boulenguez).
2567 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
2568 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
2569 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2572 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
2573 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
2574 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
2575 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
2576 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
2577 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
2580 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
2581 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
2582 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
2584 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
2585 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
2586 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
2587 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
2590 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
2591 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
2592 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
2595 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
2596 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
2597 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
2599 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
2600 calls to setupterm().
2601 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
2603 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
2604 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
2605 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
2607 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
2611 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
2614 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
2616 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
2617 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
2618 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
2619 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
2620 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
2621 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
2623 + update config.guess, config.sub
2626 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
2627 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
2628 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
2629 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
2630 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
2631 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
2632 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
2633 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
2634 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
2637 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
2638 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
2639 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
2640 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
2641 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
2642 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
2643 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
2644 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
2645 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
2646 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
2647 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
2648 Linux versus most other systems.
2651 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
2655 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
2656 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
2657 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
2658 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
2659 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
2660 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
2661 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
2662 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
2663 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
2664 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
2665 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
2666 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
2667 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
2668 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
2671 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
2673 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
2675 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
2676 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
2677 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
2678 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
2681 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
2683 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
2684 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
2685 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
2686 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
2687 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
2689 + regenerated html manpages.
2692 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
2693 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
2694 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
2695 + change recommended regular expression library.
2696 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
2697 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
2700 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
2701 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
2702 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
2703 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
2704 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
2705 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
2706 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
2710 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
2711 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
2713 + add putty-sco entry -TD
2716 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
2718 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
2720 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
2721 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
2722 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
2724 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
2726 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
2729 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
2730 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
2731 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
2732 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
2734 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2735 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2736 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2739 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2740 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2742 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2745 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2747 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2749 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2751 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2752 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2753 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2754 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2755 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2756 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2757 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2760 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2761 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2763 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2764 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2765 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2766 database (cf: 20111001).
2769 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2770 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2771 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2773 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2774 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2776 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2777 in older FreeBSD machines.
2778 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2779 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2780 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2783 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2784 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2785 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2786 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2787 root's home directory.
2788 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2789 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2790 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2791 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2792 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2794 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2795 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2796 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2797 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2798 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2799 (report by Peter Kruse).
2802 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
2803 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
2805 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
2807 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
2808 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
2809 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
2812 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
2813 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
2814 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
2815 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
2816 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
2817 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
2820 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
2821 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
2822 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
2823 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
2824 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
2827 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
2828 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
2829 input and output of termcap source.
2830 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
2831 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
2832 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
2833 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
2834 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
2835 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
2836 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
2837 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
2838 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
2841 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
2844 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
2846 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
2847 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
2848 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
2849 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
2851 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
2854 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
2855 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
2857 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
2858 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
2861 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
2862 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
2864 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
2865 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2867 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2868 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2869 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2870 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2872 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2873 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2874 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2875 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2877 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2878 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2881 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2882 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2883 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2884 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2887 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2888 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2889 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2890 + add terminator entry -TD
2891 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2892 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2893 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2897 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2898 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2899 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2900 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2901 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2902 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2903 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2904 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2905 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2906 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2910 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2911 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2912 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2913 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2914 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2915 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2917 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2918 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2919 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2921 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2924 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2925 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2926 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2927 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2929 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2930 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2932 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2933 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2934 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2935 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2936 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2937 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2938 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2939 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2941 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2942 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2944 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2945 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2946 tctest (cf: 19991211).
2947 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
2948 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
2949 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
2950 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
2951 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
2952 translating to termcap.
2953 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
2954 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
2957 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
2958 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
2959 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
2960 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
2961 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
2962 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
2964 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
2965 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
2966 regarding Schilling's test program):
2967 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
2968 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
2969 + use \040 rather than \s
2970 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
2971 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
2974 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
2975 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
2976 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
2977 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2978 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
2979 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
2980 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
2981 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
2982 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
2983 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
2984 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
2985 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
2988 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
2989 are not used in the $CC variable.
2990 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
2991 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
2992 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
2993 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
2994 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
2995 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2998 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
2999 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
3003 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
3004 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
3005 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
3006 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
3007 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
3009 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
3010 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
3012 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
3015 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
3016 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
3019 + fixes for MirBSD port:
3020 + set default prefix to /usr.
3021 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
3022 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
3023 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
3024 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
3027 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
3028 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
3029 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
3030 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
3032 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
3033 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
3037 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
3040 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
3041 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
3042 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
3044 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
3045 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
3046 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
3047 help work around weak-symbol issues.
3050 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
3051 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
3052 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
3053 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
3054 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
3055 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
3056 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
3057 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
3058 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
3059 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
3060 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
3063 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
3064 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
3066 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
3067 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
3068 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
3069 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3072 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
3073 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
3074 as different types on some Unix systems.
3075 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
3076 function pointer passed to tputs().
3077 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
3078 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
3079 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
3080 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
3083 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
3084 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3085 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
3086 + update config.guess, config.sub
3089 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
3091 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
3092 some ncurses packages.
3093 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
3094 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
3095 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
3097 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3100 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
3101 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
3102 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
3103 the in-tree build of sample programs.
3104 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
3105 needed for rpm script.
3106 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
3107 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
3108 options if building a shared library with gnat.
3111 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
3112 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
3113 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
3114 that sample program.
3115 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
3116 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
3117 which were added in 5.7 and later.
3118 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
3122 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
3124 + regen Ada html documentation.
3125 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
3126 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
3128 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
3130 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
3131 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
3132 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
3133 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
3134 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
3135 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
3137 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3138 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
3140 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
3141 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
3144 + regen Ada html documentation.
3145 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
3146 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
3148 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
3149 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
3150 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
3151 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3152 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
3153 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
3154 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
3155 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
3156 thread in comp.lang.ada).
3157 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
3158 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
3159 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3160 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
3161 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
3162 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
3163 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
3164 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
3165 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
3166 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
3169 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
3170 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3171 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
3173 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
3175 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
3176 explain.txt is not found.
3179 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3180 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
3181 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3182 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
3183 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
3185 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3188 + update release notes, for 5.8.
3189 + regenerated html manpages.
3190 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
3192 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
3193 a new install of hashed database.
3194 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
3197 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
3198 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
3199 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
3200 wide-character configuration.
3201 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
3202 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
3205 + regenerated html manpages.
3206 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
3207 special case of trace configuration.
3210 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
3211 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
3212 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
3213 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
3214 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
3218 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
3219 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
3220 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
3221 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
3222 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
3224 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
3225 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
3228 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
3229 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
3230 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
3231 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3232 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3233 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
3234 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
3235 file configuration if that is used.
3236 + update config.guess, config.sub
3239 + regenerated html manpages.
3240 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
3242 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3243 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
3246 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
3247 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
3250 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
3251 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
3252 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3255 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
3257 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
3258 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
3259 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
3260 wide-character configuration.
3261 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
3262 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
3263 referred to quitting with 'q'.
3266 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
3267 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
3268 version which works with termcap.
3269 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
3270 (request by Sven Joachim).
3271 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
3272 (report by Sven Joachim).
3275 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
3276 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
3277 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
3280 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
3282 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
3283 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
3286 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
3288 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
3289 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
3290 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
3291 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
3292 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
3293 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
3297 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
3298 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
3299 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
3301 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
3304 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
3306 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
3310 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
3312 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
3313 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
3314 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
3315 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
3316 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
3317 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
3318 tree (report by Werner Fink).
3319 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
3320 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
3321 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
3322 (report by John P. Hartmann)
3323 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
3326 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
3327 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
3328 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
3329 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
3330 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
3331 external package "cindent".
3334 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
3335 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
3336 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
3337 inconsistent printer-controls.
3338 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
3339 form is available -TD
3340 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
3342 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
3344 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
3345 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3346 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
3347 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
3348 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
3350 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
3351 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
3355 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3356 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3357 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3358 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3359 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3361 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3364 + regenerated html manpages.
3365 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3366 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3367 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3370 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3372 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3373 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3374 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3375 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3379 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3380 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3383 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3384 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3385 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3386 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3387 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3388 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3389 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3393 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3394 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3395 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3396 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3397 by Tim van der Molen).
3398 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3399 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3400 library configuration.
3401 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3402 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3403 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3406 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3408 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3409 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3410 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3411 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3412 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3415 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
3416 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
3417 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
3418 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
3419 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3420 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
3421 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
3422 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
3425 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
3426 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
3427 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
3428 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
3429 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
3430 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
3431 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
3432 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
3435 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
3436 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
3437 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
3438 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
3441 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3442 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
3443 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
3446 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3447 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
3448 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
3451 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3452 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
3453 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
3454 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
3457 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
3458 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
3459 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
3461 + update Ada95/configure.
3462 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
3463 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
3464 of updating LIBS variable.
3467 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
3468 work with 64-bit compiles.
3469 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
3473 + regenerated html documentation.
3474 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
3476 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
3477 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
3478 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
3479 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
3482 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
3483 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
3485 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
3486 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
3487 build- and target-machines differ.
3488 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
3489 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
3491 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
3492 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
3495 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
3496 new EINTR feature is enabled.
3497 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
3498 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
3499 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
3500 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
3501 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
3502 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
3503 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
3504 with the standard builds of ncurses.
3505 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
3506 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
3507 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
3508 found in predefined libraries.
3509 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
3512 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
3513 (patch by David Benjamin).
3514 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
3515 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
3516 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
3517 may be defined by that route.
3520 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3521 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
3522 the predefined include directories.
3523 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
3524 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
3525 where older versions would produce an error.
3528 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
3529 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
3530 terminfo to termcap strings
3531 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
3532 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
3533 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
3534 directory was already added.
3535 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
3536 directories (which will be ignored).
3539 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
3540 + discard motion events
3541 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
3542 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
3543 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
3544 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
3547 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
3548 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
3549 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
3550 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
3551 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
3552 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
3553 extended-colors configuration.
3554 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
3555 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
3556 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
3559 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
3561 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
3562 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
3563 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
3565 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
3566 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
3567 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
3570 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
3571 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
3575 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
3576 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
3577 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
3578 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
3579 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
3580 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
3581 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3582 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
3583 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
3587 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
3588 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
3589 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
3590 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
3593 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
3595 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3596 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
3597 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
3600 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
3601 making those separately distributable.
3602 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
3603 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
3607 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
3610 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
3611 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
3612 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
3613 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
3617 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
3618 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
3619 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3620 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3623 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
3624 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
3625 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
3626 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
3628 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
3629 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
3630 by Miroslav Lichvar)
3631 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
3635 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
3636 that line-drawing works.
3637 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
3638 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
3639 capabilities can run.
3640 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
3644 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3645 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
3646 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
3647 before older in the list.
3648 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
3649 + minor documentation cleanup.
3650 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3651 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3652 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
3655 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
3656 most common case of SGR 0.
3657 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
3658 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
3659 events remain, it will return ERR.
3662 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
3663 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
3664 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
3665 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
3666 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
3669 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
3670 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
3671 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
3674 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
3675 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
3676 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
3677 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
3678 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
3679 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
3682 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
3683 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
3684 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
3685 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
3686 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
3688 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
3690 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
3692 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
3693 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3694 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
3696 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3697 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3700 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
3701 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
3703 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
3704 writing terminfo entries.
3705 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
3706 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
3707 by Nicholas Marriott).
3710 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
3712 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
3713 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
3717 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
3718 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
3719 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
3720 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
3721 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
3725 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
3726 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
3727 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
3728 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3731 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
3732 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
3733 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
3734 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
3735 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3736 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
3737 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
3740 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
3741 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
3742 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
3743 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
3744 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
3745 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
3746 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
3747 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
3748 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
3749 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
3750 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
3753 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
3754 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
3755 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
3756 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
3759 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
3760 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
3763 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
3764 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
3765 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
3769 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
3770 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
3771 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
3772 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
3773 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
3775 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
3776 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
3779 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
3780 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
3781 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
3782 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
3783 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
3784 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
3786 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
3787 library (some work remains for forms library).
3790 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
3791 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
3792 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
3793 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
3795 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
3796 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
3797 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
3798 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
3801 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
3802 by sharing linedata.h functions):
3805 test/test_addchstr.c
3806 test/test_add_wchstr.c
3807 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
3808 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
3809 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
3812 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
3814 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
3815 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
3816 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
3817 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
3821 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
3822 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
3823 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
3824 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3827 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
3828 amd64 (Debian #542031).
3829 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
3832 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3835 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
3836 broken in 20090510 merging.
3837 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
3838 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3839 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
3840 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
3841 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
3842 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
3843 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
3844 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
3846 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3849 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
3850 implementation details of hash function.
3853 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
3854 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
3855 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
3858 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
3859 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
3860 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
3861 test/demo_terminfo.c
3862 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3863 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
3866 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
3867 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
3871 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3874 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
3876 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
3877 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
3878 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
3879 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
3880 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
3882 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
3883 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
3884 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
3887 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
3888 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
3889 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3892 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3893 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3895 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3898 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3899 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3901 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
3902 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
3906 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
3907 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
3908 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3911 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
3914 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3917 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
3918 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
3919 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
3920 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3923 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3926 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
3927 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
3928 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
3929 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
3933 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3936 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3937 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
3940 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3943 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
3947 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3950 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3951 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
3952 part of the form library.
3955 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3956 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
3959 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
3960 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
3961 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
3962 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
3963 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
3964 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
3965 a temporary variable.
3966 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
3967 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
3968 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
3969 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
3970 with Charles Wilson).
3971 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
3972 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
3973 > patches by Charles Wilson:
3974 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
3975 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
3976 digits, after the final '.').
3977 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
3978 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
3979 using that in the libtool link-commands.
3980 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
3981 from 20090321 changes.
3982 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
3983 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
3984 termlib) is to be linked.
3985 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
3986 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
3989 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
3990 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3991 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
3992 (report by Charles Wilson).
3993 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
3994 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3995 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
3996 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
3997 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
4000 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
4001 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
4002 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
4003 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
4004 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
4006 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
4007 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
4008 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
4009 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
4010 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
4011 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
4012 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
4013 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
4016 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4017 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
4018 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
4021 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4024 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
4026 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
4027 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
4028 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
4029 some internals work is needed to complete these).
4030 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
4033 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
4034 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
4035 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
4036 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4037 + make it work with $DESTDIR
4038 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
4041 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
4042 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
4044 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
4045 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
4046 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
4049 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
4050 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
4051 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
4052 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
4053 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
4054 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
4055 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
4056 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
4057 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
4060 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
4061 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
4063 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
4065 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
4066 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
4069 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
4071 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
4072 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
4073 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
4074 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4077 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
4078 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
4079 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
4081 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
4082 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
4085 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
4086 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
4087 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
4088 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
4089 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
4090 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
4092 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
4093 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
4095 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4096 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4099 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
4100 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
4101 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
4104 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
4105 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
4106 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
4108 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
4109 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
4112 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
4114 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
4115 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
4116 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
4118 + fixes from NetBSD port at
4119 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
4120 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
4121 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
4122 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
4123 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
4125 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
4126 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
4129 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
4130 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
4131 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
4132 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
4133 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
4134 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
4135 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
4136 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
4137 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
4138 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
4139 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
4142 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
4143 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
4144 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
4145 passing color or video attributes.
4146 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
4147 display meta-characters.
4148 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
4149 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
4150 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
4151 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
4155 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
4156 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4157 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
4159 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
4162 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
4164 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
4165 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
4167 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4170 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
4171 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
4172 does not work well on that platform).
4173 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
4176 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
4177 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
4178 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
4180 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
4181 --disable-database is used.
4182 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
4183 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
4184 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
4185 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
4189 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
4190 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
4191 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
4192 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
4193 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
4194 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
4195 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
4199 + regenerated html documentation.
4200 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
4201 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
4202 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
4203 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
4204 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
4205 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
4206 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
4207 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
4210 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
4211 works for C/C++ parts).
4212 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
4213 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
4216 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
4217 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
4218 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
4219 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
4220 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
4221 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
4222 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
4223 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
4224 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
4226 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
4227 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4228 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
4229 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
4230 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
4231 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
4234 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
4235 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
4238 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
4239 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
4240 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
4241 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
4242 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
4243 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
4246 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
4247 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
4250 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
4254 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
4255 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
4256 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
4257 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
4259 + update test/configure script.
4260 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
4261 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
4262 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
4263 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
4264 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
4267 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
4268 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
4270 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
4272 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
4273 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
4274 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
4275 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
4276 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
4277 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
4278 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4279 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4280 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
4283 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
4284 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
4285 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
4286 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
4287 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
4288 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
4289 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
4290 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
4291 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
4292 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
4293 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
4297 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
4298 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
4299 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
4300 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
4301 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
4303 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
4304 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
4305 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
4306 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
4307 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
4310 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
4311 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
4312 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
4313 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
4314 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
4315 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
4316 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
4319 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
4323 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
4326 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
4329 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
4330 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
4332 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
4333 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
4334 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
4338 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
4339 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
4341 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
4342 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
4343 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
4344 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
4347 + regenerated html documentation.
4348 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
4349 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
4350 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
4351 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
4352 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
4355 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
4356 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
4357 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
4361 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
4362 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
4363 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
4364 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
4365 window which is being used in a wgetch().
4366 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
4369 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
4370 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
4372 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
4373 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
4374 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
4375 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
4376 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
4377 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
4378 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
4379 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
4380 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
4383 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
4384 screen which must be updated.
4385 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
4386 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
4387 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
4391 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
4392 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
4394 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
4395 Emanuele Giaquinta).
4396 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
4397 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4400 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
4401 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
4402 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
4404 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
4408 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
4409 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
4410 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
4413 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
4414 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
4415 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
4416 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
4419 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
4420 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
4422 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
4424 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
4427 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
4428 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
4429 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
4430 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
4431 python-dev2 mailing list).
4434 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
4435 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
4436 are not associated with a particular screen.
4437 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
4438 stdscr to the callback function.
4439 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
4440 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
4441 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4442 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
4443 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
4444 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4445 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
4449 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
4450 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
4451 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
4452 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
4454 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
4455 wide-characters with extended-colors.
4456 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
4457 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
4458 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
4461 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
4462 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
4463 that the 'F' accepts.
4464 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
4465 are working concurrently.
4466 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
4470 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
4471 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
4472 _nc_free_and_exit().
4475 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
4476 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
4479 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
4480 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
4483 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
4484 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
4485 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
4486 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
4489 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
4490 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
4491 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
4492 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
4493 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
4494 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
4496 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
4497 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
4501 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
4502 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
4503 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
4506 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
4507 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
4508 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
4511 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
4512 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
4513 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
4517 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
4518 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
4519 "link_test" builds properly.
4520 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
4521 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
4522 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
4523 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
4524 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
4525 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
4526 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
4528 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
4531 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
4535 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
4536 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
4539 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
4541 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
4542 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
4543 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
4546 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
4547 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
4548 pierre4d2 comments).
4549 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
4550 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
4551 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
4552 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
4556 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
4557 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
4558 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
4559 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
4560 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
4562 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
4563 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
4564 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
4568 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
4569 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
4572 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
4574 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
4576 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
4580 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
4581 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
4583 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
4584 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
4585 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
4586 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
4587 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
4589 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
4590 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
4593 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
4594 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
4595 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
4596 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4599 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
4600 calls within the ncurses library.
4601 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
4603 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
4604 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
4605 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
4607 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
4608 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
4609 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
4610 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
4611 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
4614 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
4615 for threaded library (incomplete).
4616 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
4617 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
4621 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
4622 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
4623 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
4624 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
4625 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
4626 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
4627 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
4628 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4629 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4632 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
4634 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
4635 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4638 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
4639 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
4640 "\0" followed by a digit.
4641 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
4642 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
4643 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
4644 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
4645 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
4646 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
4647 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
4648 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
4649 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
4652 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
4653 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
4654 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
4655 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
4656 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
4658 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
4659 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
4660 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
4664 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
4665 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
4666 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
4667 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
4668 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
4669 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
4670 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
4671 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
4672 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
4675 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
4676 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
4677 + add test/test_getstr.c
4678 + add test/test_inwstr.c
4679 + add test/test_instr.c
4682 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
4683 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
4684 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
4688 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
4689 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
4690 ".log" to the name and try again.
4691 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
4692 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
4693 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
4694 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
4695 --disable-echo option is used.
4696 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
4697 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
4698 + update config.guess, config.sub
4701 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
4702 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
4703 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
4707 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
4708 problems with multi-column characters.
4709 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
4710 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
4711 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
4712 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
4713 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
4714 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
4715 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
4718 + add test/demo_panels.c
4719 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
4722 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
4724 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
4725 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
4728 + add test/key_name.c
4729 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
4730 + update test/configure
4731 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
4732 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
4733 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
4737 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
4738 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
4739 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
4740 illustrate how to use mvcur().
4741 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
4742 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
4743 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
4744 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
4745 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
4748 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
4749 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
4750 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
4751 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
4752 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
4753 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
4756 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
4757 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
4759 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
4760 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
4761 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
4762 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
4765 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
4766 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
4767 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
4768 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
4770 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
4772 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
4773 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
4774 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
4775 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
4776 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
4779 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
4780 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
4782 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
4783 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
4784 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
4785 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
4786 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
4787 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
4788 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
4789 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
4790 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
4791 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
4792 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
4795 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
4796 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
4797 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
4798 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
4799 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
4800 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
4801 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
4804 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
4805 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
4806 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
4807 Ada95 tree is not built.
4810 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
4811 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
4812 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
4813 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
4814 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
4815 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
4817 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
4818 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
4819 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
4820 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
4821 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
4822 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
4823 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
4824 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4825 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
4826 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
4827 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
4828 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
4829 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
4830 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
4831 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
4832 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
4833 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
4834 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
4835 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
4837 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
4838 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
4839 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
4840 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
4841 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
4842 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
4843 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
4844 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
4845 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
4848 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
4849 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
4850 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
4851 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
4852 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
4853 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
4854 + improved install-sh's quoting.
4855 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
4859 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
4860 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
4861 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
4862 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
4863 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
4867 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
4868 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
4869 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
4870 in the configure script to an error.
4871 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
4872 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
4873 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
4874 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
4875 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
4877 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
4878 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
4881 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
4882 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4885 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
4886 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
4888 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
4889 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
4890 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
4891 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
4892 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
4893 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
4894 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
4895 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
4898 + regenerated html documentation.
4899 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
4900 opaque in selected configurations.
4901 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
4902 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
4903 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
4904 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4905 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
4906 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
4907 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
4908 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4909 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
4910 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
4911 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
4913 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
4914 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
4917 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
4918 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
4919 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
4920 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
4921 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4922 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
4923 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
4924 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
4925 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
4926 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
4927 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
4928 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
4931 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
4933 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
4934 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
4935 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
4937 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
4938 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4939 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
4940 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4941 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
4942 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4943 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
4944 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
4946 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
4947 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4950 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
4951 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
4953 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
4955 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
4956 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
4957 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
4960 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
4961 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
4962 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
4963 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
4965 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
4966 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
4967 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
4968 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
4969 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
4970 no longer relies on it.
4971 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
4972 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
4973 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
4976 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
4977 (report by Rong-En Fan).
4980 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
4981 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
4982 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
4983 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
4984 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
4985 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
4986 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
4987 its license consistent with ncurses.
4988 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
4989 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
4990 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
4993 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
4994 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
4995 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
4996 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
5000 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
5001 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
5002 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
5004 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
5005 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5008 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
5009 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
5010 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5013 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
5014 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
5015 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
5016 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
5017 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
5018 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
5019 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
5020 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
5021 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
5022 to manpages as needed.
5023 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
5024 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
5027 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
5028 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
5029 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
5030 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
5031 + update config.guess, config.sub
5033 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5036 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
5037 definitions in <wchar.h>.
5038 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
5039 correct nor portable.
5040 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
5042 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
5043 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
5047 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
5048 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
5049 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
5050 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
5051 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
5052 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
5055 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
5056 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
5057 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
5058 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
5060 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
5061 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
5062 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
5063 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
5064 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
5065 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
5066 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
5067 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
5070 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
5071 database configuration.
5072 + updates for test/configure script.
5073 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
5074 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
5076 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
5077 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
5078 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
5079 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
5081 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
5082 _nc_printf_string().
5083 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
5084 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
5087 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
5088 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
5090 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
5091 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
5095 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
5096 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
5099 + add test/echochar.c
5100 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
5101 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
5104 + add AUTHORS file -TD
5105 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
5106 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
5107 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
5110 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
5111 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
5112 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
5114 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
5115 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
5116 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
5117 for rpath support in versions past 3.
5118 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
5119 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
5120 Ralf S Engelschall).
5121 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
5122 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
5123 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
5124 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
5127 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
5128 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
5129 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
5132 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
5133 and status line (Alain Bench).
5134 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
5135 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
5136 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
5137 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
5140 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
5141 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
5142 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
5143 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
5144 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
5147 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
5148 + updated html documentation.
5149 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
5150 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
5153 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
5154 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
5155 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5156 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
5157 option (from lynx changes) -TD
5158 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
5159 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
5160 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
5161 by report by Christopher Parker).
5165 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
5166 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
5167 since it does not really do this -TD
5170 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
5171 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
5172 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
5173 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
5176 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
5177 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
5178 embedded into a termcap description.
5179 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
5180 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
5181 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
5182 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
5183 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
5186 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
5188 + add test/foldkeys.c
5191 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
5192 source output (Debian #378783).
5193 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
5194 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
5195 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
5196 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
5197 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
5198 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
5201 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
5202 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
5203 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
5206 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
5207 or as a text file if those are not available.
5208 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
5209 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
5210 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
5213 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
5214 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
5215 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
5216 + update config.guess, config.sub
5219 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
5220 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
5221 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
5223 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
5224 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
5226 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
5227 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
5228 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
5229 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
5230 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
5231 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
5233 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
5234 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
5235 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
5236 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5239 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
5240 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
5244 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
5245 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
5247 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
5248 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
5249 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
5250 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
5251 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
5252 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
5255 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
5256 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
5257 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
5258 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
5259 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
5260 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
5261 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
5262 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
5263 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
5264 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
5267 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
5268 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
5269 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
5270 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
5272 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
5275 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
5276 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
5277 + minor copyright fixes.
5278 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
5281 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
5282 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
5283 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
5284 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
5285 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
5286 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
5287 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
5288 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
5290 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
5291 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
5292 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
5293 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
5295 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
5298 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
5299 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
5301 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
5302 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
5303 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
5304 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
5306 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
5307 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
5308 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
5309 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
5312 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
5313 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
5314 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
5315 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
5316 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
5317 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
5318 + update config.guess, config.sub
5319 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
5320 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
5321 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
5322 function is broken in that implementation.
5325 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
5326 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
5329 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
5330 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
5332 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
5333 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
5335 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
5336 reported to implement this feature -TD
5339 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
5340 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5343 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
5344 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
5345 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
5346 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
5347 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
5348 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
5349 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
5350 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
5353 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
5354 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
5356 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
5357 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
5360 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
5361 (report by Alain Bench).
5362 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
5363 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
5364 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
5365 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
5367 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
5368 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
5369 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
5373 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
5374 and/or video attributes.
5375 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
5376 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
5379 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
5382 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
5383 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
5384 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
5385 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
5386 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
5387 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
5388 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
5389 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
5390 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
5393 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
5394 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
5395 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
5398 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
5399 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
5400 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
5401 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
5402 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
5403 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
5404 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
5405 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
5406 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
5407 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
5410 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
5411 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
5412 rather than delayed.
5413 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
5415 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
5416 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
5417 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
5420 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
5422 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
5423 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
5426 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
5427 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
5430 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
5431 + suppress line-drawing
5432 + implement max_attributes
5434 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
5435 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
5439 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
5440 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
5442 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
5444 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
5445 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
5446 etc., when allocating screens.
5449 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
5450 this in test/filter.c
5451 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
5455 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
5456 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
5457 + add extension nofilter().
5458 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
5459 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
5460 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
5461 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
5462 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5465 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
5466 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
5467 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
5468 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
5469 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
5470 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
5471 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
5472 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
5473 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
5475 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
5476 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
5477 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
5479 + update config.guess and config.sub
5482 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
5483 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
5484 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
5486 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
5487 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
5488 that was never built in that directory).
5489 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
5492 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
5494 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
5495 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
5499 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
5500 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
5501 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
5502 effect of the different functions.
5503 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
5507 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
5508 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
5510 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
5514 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
5515 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
5516 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
5518 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
5519 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
5523 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
5524 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
5525 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
5527 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
5528 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
5529 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
5532 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
5533 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
5534 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
5537 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
5538 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
5539 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
5541 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
5542 a derived window (Debian #316663).
5545 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
5546 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
5547 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
5548 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
5549 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
5550 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
5551 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
5554 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
5555 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
5556 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
5558 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
5559 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5560 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
5561 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
5562 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
5564 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5567 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
5570 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
5571 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
5575 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
5576 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5577 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
5578 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5579 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
5581 + update config.guess and config.sub from
5582 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5585 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
5586 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
5587 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
5588 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
5589 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
5590 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
5591 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
5592 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
5593 default if it is used.
5594 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
5595 --with-abi-version option was used.
5596 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
5597 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
5598 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
5601 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
5602 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
5603 handlers (Debian #326709).
5606 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
5607 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
5609 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
5612 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
5613 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
5614 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
5615 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
5617 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
5618 (report by Frank van Vugt).
5621 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
5622 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
5623 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
5624 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
5625 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
5626 + update llib-l* files.
5629 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
5630 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
5631 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
5632 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
5636 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
5637 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
5638 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
5639 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
5640 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
5641 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
5642 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
5643 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
5644 Konstantin Andreev).
5647 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
5648 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
5649 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
5650 several related cases -TD
5651 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
5652 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
5654 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
5655 resets line-drawing.
5658 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
5660 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
5661 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
5662 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
5663 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
5664 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
5665 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
5668 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
5669 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
5670 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
5672 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
5673 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
5676 + update config.guess and config.sub from
5677 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5678 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
5679 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
5680 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
5681 "make install.data" step.
5682 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
5683 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
5684 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
5685 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
5686 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
5687 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
5688 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
5689 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
5690 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
5691 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
5692 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
5693 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
5694 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
5695 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
5698 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5701 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
5702 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
5703 review of Debian package).
5704 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
5705 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
5706 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
5707 install using libtool 1.5.0):
5708 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
5710 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
5711 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
5712 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
5713 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
5714 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5717 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
5718 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
5719 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
5722 + fixes for termcap support:
5723 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
5724 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
5725 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
5726 extended names data will be freed consistently.
5727 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
5729 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
5730 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
5731 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
5732 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
5735 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
5736 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
5737 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
5738 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
5740 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
5744 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
5746 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
5747 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
5750 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
5751 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
5752 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
5753 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
5754 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
5755 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
5756 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
5760 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
5761 shift-, control-cursor keys.
5762 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
5763 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
5764 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
5765 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
5766 it will automatically be treated as a key.
5767 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
5768 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
5769 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
5773 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
5774 + add configure option --enable-largefile
5775 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
5779 + update config.guess, config.sub
5780 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
5781 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
5782 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
5783 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
5784 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
5786 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
5787 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
5788 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
5791 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
5792 position the mouse to a particular item.
5793 + implement test/demo_menus.c
5794 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
5795 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
5796 --enable-const option.
5799 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
5800 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
5801 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
5802 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
5803 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
5804 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
5805 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
5806 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
5807 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
5808 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
5809 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
5812 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
5814 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
5815 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
5818 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
5819 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
5820 anyone used that configuration.
5821 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
5823 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
5824 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
5827 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
5828 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
5829 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
5831 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
5832 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
5833 WenRui, Debian #300512).
5836 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
5837 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
5838 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
5842 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
5843 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
5844 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
5845 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
5846 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
5849 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
5851 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
5853 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
5854 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
5855 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
5858 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
5860 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
5861 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
5862 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
5863 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
5864 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
5865 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
5866 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
5867 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
5868 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
5869 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
5870 right (cf: 20040228).
5871 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
5872 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
5875 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
5876 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
5877 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
5878 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
5879 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
5880 added (Debian #295083).
5881 + add traces to panel library.
5884 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
5885 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
5886 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
5887 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
5888 mouse events in this case.
5889 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
5890 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
5893 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
5894 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
5895 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
5896 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
5897 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
5898 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
5899 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
5900 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
5903 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
5904 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
5905 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
5906 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
5907 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
5908 already been started.
5909 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
5910 pair_content() and color_content().
5911 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
5912 if it corresponds to the default-color.
5913 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
5914 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
5915 color pairs which are allowed.
5916 + add a top-level tags rule.
5919 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
5920 first calling initscr().
5921 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
5922 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
5923 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
5924 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
5925 that are curses-specific.
5926 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
5927 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
5928 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
5929 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
5933 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
5934 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
5935 for leading whitespace.
5936 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
5937 where a following line begins in column 1.
5938 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
5939 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
5942 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
5945 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
5946 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
5947 + update config.guess, config.sub
5948 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
5949 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
5950 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
5951 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
5952 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
5953 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
5954 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
5957 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
5959 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
5960 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
5963 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
5964 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
5965 and attr_set functions.
5968 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
5969 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
5970 forms-demo to be one character short.
5971 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
5972 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
5973 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
5974 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
5977 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
5978 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
5979 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
5980 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
5982 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
5983 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
5986 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
5987 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
5988 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
5989 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
5990 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
5991 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
5992 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
5994 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
5995 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
5997 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
5998 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
6001 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
6002 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
6003 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
6004 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
6005 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
6006 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
6007 wide-character configuration.
6010 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
6011 or multicolumn characters.
6014 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
6015 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
6016 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
6017 use_default_colors() be called first.
6020 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
6021 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
6022 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
6023 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
6024 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
6025 must be wrapped to a new line.
6026 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
6027 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
6028 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
6029 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
6030 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
6034 + minor fixes for traces.
6035 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
6036 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
6037 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
6041 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
6042 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
6043 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
6044 and shift-out which seem to work.
6045 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
6046 at runtime (Debian #110586).
6049 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
6050 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6051 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
6052 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
6056 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
6057 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
6058 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
6059 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6062 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
6063 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
6064 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6065 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
6066 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6067 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
6068 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
6069 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
6070 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
6071 is no longer experimental.
6072 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
6073 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
6076 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
6079 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
6080 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
6081 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
6082 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
6083 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
6084 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
6085 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
6086 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
6089 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
6090 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
6091 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
6092 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
6093 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
6094 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
6095 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
6096 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
6099 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
6100 and window managers (Debian #265631).
6101 > terminfo updates -TD
6102 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
6103 with the common usage of bce/ech
6104 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
6108 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
6109 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
6110 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
6111 a help window as well.
6112 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
6113 the -d option is set.
6114 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
6117 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
6119 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
6120 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
6124 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
6125 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
6126 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
6127 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
6129 > terminfo updates -TD
6130 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
6131 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
6132 + add function-keys to decansi
6133 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
6134 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
6135 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
6138 > terminfo updates -TD
6139 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
6140 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
6142 + review/update konsole entries
6143 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
6144 + correct tsl string in kterm
6147 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
6150 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
6151 multibyte character.
6152 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
6154 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
6155 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
6156 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
6157 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
6158 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
6159 converting termcap to termcap format.
6160 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
6161 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
6162 > terminfo updates -TD
6163 + minor fixes for emu
6165 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
6170 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
6171 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
6172 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
6173 (report/patch by Tony Li).
6174 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
6175 > terminfo updates -TD
6176 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
6178 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
6179 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
6180 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
6183 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
6184 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
6186 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
6187 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
6188 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
6189 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
6190 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
6191 + update config.guess, config.sub
6192 > terminfo updates -TD
6194 + add xterm-xf86-v44
6195 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
6196 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
6201 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
6202 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
6203 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
6206 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
6207 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
6208 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
6210 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
6214 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
6215 field_buffer() results.
6216 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
6219 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
6221 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
6222 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
6223 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
6224 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
6225 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
6228 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
6229 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
6230 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
6234 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
6235 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
6237 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
6240 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
6241 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
6242 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
6243 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
6244 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
6245 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
6246 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
6247 information without an option.
6248 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
6249 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
6252 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
6255 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
6256 + free some memory leaks in tic.
6257 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
6258 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
6259 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
6260 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
6261 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
6263 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
6266 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
6267 to an unsigned char.
6268 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
6269 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
6272 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
6275 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
6276 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
6277 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
6278 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
6279 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
6280 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
6281 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
6282 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
6283 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
6284 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
6285 20030802 (Debian #237629).
6288 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
6289 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
6290 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
6291 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
6294 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
6296 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
6297 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
6300 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
6301 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
6302 mode is shown in that test.
6303 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
6304 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
6305 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
6308 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
6310 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
6311 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
6312 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
6313 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
6315 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
6316 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
6317 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
6318 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
6321 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
6322 (request by Mike Aubury).
6323 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
6325 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
6327 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
6330 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
6331 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
6332 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
6333 with Stanislav Ievlev).
6334 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
6335 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
6336 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
6337 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
6338 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
6339 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
6341 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6344 20040207 pre-release
6345 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
6346 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
6347 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
6348 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
6349 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
6351 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
6352 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
6353 verified by Scott Corscadden).
6355 20040131 pre-release
6356 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
6357 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
6358 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
6359 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
6360 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
6361 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
6362 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
6363 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
6364 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
6365 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
6366 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
6368 20040125 pre-release
6369 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
6370 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
6371 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
6372 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
6373 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
6374 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
6375 modifying the displayed value.
6377 20040124 pre-release
6378 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
6379 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
6380 that works better for cross-compiling.
6382 20040117 pre-release
6383 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
6384 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
6385 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
6386 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
6387 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
6388 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
6389 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
6391 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
6392 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
6394 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
6395 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
6396 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
6397 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
6398 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6399 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
6400 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
6401 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
6402 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6403 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
6404 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6405 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
6407 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
6408 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
6409 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
6410 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
6411 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
6412 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
6413 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
6414 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
6416 20040110 pre-release
6417 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
6418 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
6420 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
6421 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
6423 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
6425 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
6426 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
6427 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6428 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
6429 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6432 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
6433 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
6434 + add pecho_wchar().
6435 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
6436 available) on older platforms.
6439 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
6440 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
6441 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
6442 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
6443 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
6444 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
6445 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
6446 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
6447 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
6450 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
6451 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
6452 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
6453 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
6454 work with Tru64 4.0d.
6455 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
6459 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
6460 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
6461 applications do not.
6462 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
6463 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
6464 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
6465 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
6466 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
6467 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
6471 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
6472 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
6473 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
6474 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
6475 <inger@altlinux.org>).
6476 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
6477 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
6478 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
6479 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
6480 awkward for some cases.
6481 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
6482 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
6484 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
6485 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
6486 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
6487 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
6488 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
6492 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
6493 values (Philippe Blain).
6494 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
6495 restarting (Philippe Blain).
6496 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
6500 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
6501 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
6502 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
6503 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
6504 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
6505 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
6509 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
6510 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
6511 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
6513 + update config.guess, config.sub
6516 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
6517 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
6518 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
6519 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
6520 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
6521 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
6522 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
6524 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
6525 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
6526 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
6527 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
6528 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
6531 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
6532 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
6533 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
6534 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
6535 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
6536 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
6537 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
6538 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
6540 + regenerated html documentation.
6541 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
6542 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
6543 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
6546 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
6547 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
6548 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
6549 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
6550 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
6551 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
6552 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
6553 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
6557 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
6558 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
6561 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
6562 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
6563 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
6564 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
6566 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
6567 (report by Philippe Blain).
6570 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
6571 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
6572 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
6573 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
6574 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
6575 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
6576 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6577 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
6578 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
6580 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
6582 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
6583 in the clr_bol logic.
6586 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6587 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
6588 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
6589 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
6590 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
6591 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
6592 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
6593 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
6594 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
6595 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
6596 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
6597 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
6600 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
6601 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
6602 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
6603 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
6606 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
6607 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
6608 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
6609 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
6610 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
6611 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
6612 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
6613 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
6614 --with-install-prefix is used.
6617 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6618 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
6619 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
6620 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
6623 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
6624 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
6625 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
6626 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
6627 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
6628 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
6629 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6630 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
6631 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
6634 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
6635 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
6636 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
6637 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
6638 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
6639 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
6640 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
6643 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
6645 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6646 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
6647 the size of the scroll-region.
6648 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
6651 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
6652 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
6653 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
6657 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
6658 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
6659 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
6660 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
6661 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
6663 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
6664 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
6665 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
6666 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
6667 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
6668 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
6669 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
6670 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
6671 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
6672 usage and to prevent circular links.
6673 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
6674 (rxvt-color): new alias
6675 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
6676 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
6677 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
6678 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
6679 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
6680 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
6682 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
6686 + update config.guess, config.sub
6687 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
6688 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
6691 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
6692 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
6693 would not accept gcc warning options.
6694 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
6695 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
6696 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
6697 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
6698 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
6699 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
6700 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
6702 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
6705 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
6706 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
6707 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
6708 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
6709 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
6710 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
6711 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
6712 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
6715 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
6717 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
6718 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
6719 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
6720 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
6723 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
6725 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
6726 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
6727 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
6728 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
6729 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
6730 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
6733 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
6734 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
6735 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
6736 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
6737 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
6738 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
6739 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
6740 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
6742 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
6743 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6744 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
6745 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6748 + regenerated html manpages.
6749 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
6750 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
6752 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
6753 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
6755 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
6756 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
6759 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
6760 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
6761 + add tkterm entry -TD
6762 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
6763 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
6764 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
6765 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
6767 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
6768 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
6769 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
6771 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
6772 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
6773 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
6776 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
6777 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
6778 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
6779 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
6781 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
6782 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
6783 current test programs.
6784 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
6785 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
6786 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
6787 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
6789 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
6790 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
6791 mentioned in the terminfo.
6792 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
6793 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
6796 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
6797 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
6798 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
6799 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
6800 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
6801 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
6802 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
6803 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
6806 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
6807 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
6808 the editing position before making modifications.
6809 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
6810 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
6811 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
6814 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
6815 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
6816 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
6817 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
6819 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
6820 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
6821 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
6822 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
6823 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
6824 terminfo as is done in "screen".
6827 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
6828 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
6829 code, from recent rewrite.
6830 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
6832 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
6833 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
6836 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
6837 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
6838 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
6839 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
6842 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
6843 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
6845 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
6848 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
6850 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
6851 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
6853 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
6854 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
6855 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
6858 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
6859 a file when ^W is given.
6860 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
6864 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
6865 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
6866 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
6867 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
6868 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
6869 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
6870 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
6871 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
6875 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
6876 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
6877 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
6880 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
6881 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
6882 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
6883 baudrate was not known.
6884 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
6885 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
6886 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
6887 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
6888 corresponding capability might be
6890 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
6891 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
6892 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
6893 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
6896 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
6897 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
6898 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
6899 apparently typedef'd.
6900 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
6901 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
6904 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
6905 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
6906 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
6907 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
6908 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
6909 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
6910 cached for reallocating.
6913 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
6914 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
6915 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
6917 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
6918 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
6919 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
6920 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
6921 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
6922 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
6923 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
6924 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
6927 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
6928 emx-base to the latter -TD
6929 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
6930 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
6933 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
6934 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
6935 attributes, e.g., reverse.
6936 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
6937 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
6940 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
6941 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
6942 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
6943 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
6944 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
6945 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
6946 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
6948 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
6949 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
6950 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
6951 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
6952 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
6955 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
6956 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
6957 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
6958 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
6959 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
6960 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
6962 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6963 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
6964 is indeed a "blank".
6965 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
6966 sections as small as one line.
6967 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
6969 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
6970 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
6971 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
6974 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
6975 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
6978 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
6979 (report by Philippe Blain).
6980 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
6981 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
6982 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
6983 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
6984 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
6986 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
6987 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
6988 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
6989 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6990 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
6991 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
6994 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
6995 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
6997 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
6998 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
7000 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
7001 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
7002 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
7003 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
7006 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
7007 overridden from the environment.
7008 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
7009 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
7010 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
7011 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
7012 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
7013 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
7014 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
7015 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
7016 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
7017 by Sam Varshavchik).
7018 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
7019 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
7020 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
7021 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
7023 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
7024 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
7025 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
7026 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
7027 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
7030 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
7031 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
7032 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
7033 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
7034 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
7035 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
7036 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
7037 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
7038 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
7039 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
7040 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
7041 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
7042 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
7043 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
7044 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
7045 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
7046 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
7047 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
7048 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
7049 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
7050 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
7051 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
7052 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
7055 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
7056 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
7057 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
7058 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
7059 winsch() internal function.
7060 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
7061 more than one spacing character.
7064 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
7065 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
7066 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
7067 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
7068 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
7069 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
7070 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
7071 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
7072 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
7073 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
7076 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
7077 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
7078 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
7079 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
7080 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
7081 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
7082 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
7085 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
7086 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
7087 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
7088 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
7090 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
7091 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
7092 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
7093 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
7094 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
7097 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
7098 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
7099 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
7100 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
7101 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
7102 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
7103 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
7104 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
7105 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
7106 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
7107 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
7108 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
7109 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
7110 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
7111 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
7112 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
7113 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
7116 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
7117 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
7118 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
7119 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
7120 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
7121 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
7122 Frederic L W Meunier).
7124 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7125 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
7126 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
7127 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
7128 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
7129 the debug trace in that case.
7130 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
7131 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
7132 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
7133 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
7135 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
7136 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
7138 20021005 pre-release
7139 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
7140 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
7141 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
7142 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
7143 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
7144 formats such as "%.*s".
7145 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
7146 (report Floyd Davidson).
7147 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
7149 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
7150 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
7151 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
7153 20020928 pre-release
7154 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
7155 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
7156 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
7158 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
7159 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
7160 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
7161 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
7162 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
7163 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
7164 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
7165 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
7166 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
7167 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
7168 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
7169 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
7170 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
7171 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
7172 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
7173 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
7174 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
7175 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
7176 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
7178 20020921 pre-release
7179 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
7180 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
7181 result in core dump.
7182 + documented getbegx(), etc.
7183 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
7184 delimiter rather than '@'.
7185 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7186 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
7187 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
7188 to the lines given for the destination window.
7190 20020914 pre-release
7191 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
7192 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
7193 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
7194 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
7195 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
7196 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
7197 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
7198 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
7199 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7200 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
7201 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
7202 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
7204 20020907 pre-release
7205 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
7206 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
7207 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
7208 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
7209 html manpages on Debian.
7210 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
7211 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
7212 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
7213 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7214 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
7215 a variable from the stack.
7216 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
7218 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
7219 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
7220 _idcok window fields.
7221 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
7223 20020901 pre-release
7224 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
7225 + update config.guess, config.sub
7226 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
7227 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
7229 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
7230 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
7231 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
7232 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
7233 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
7234 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
7235 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
7236 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
7237 use in resizeterm().
7238 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
7239 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
7240 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
7241 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
7242 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7243 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
7244 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
7245 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
7246 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
7247 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
7248 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
7252 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
7253 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
7254 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
7255 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
7256 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
7257 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
7260 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
7261 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
7262 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
7264 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
7265 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
7266 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
7267 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
7268 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
7270 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
7271 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
7275 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
7276 when translating to termcap.
7277 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
7278 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
7279 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
7281 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
7283 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
7284 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
7286 + document TABSIZE variable.
7287 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
7288 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
7289 assume_default_colors().
7290 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
7292 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
7293 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
7294 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
7295 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
7296 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
7299 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
7301 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
7302 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
7304 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
7305 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
7306 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
7309 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
7311 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
7314 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
7315 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
7316 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
7317 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
7318 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
7319 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
7320 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
7321 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
7322 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
7323 configure definitions.
7324 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
7325 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
7326 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
7327 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
7328 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
7329 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
7330 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
7331 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
7332 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
7333 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
7334 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
7337 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
7338 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
7339 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
7340 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
7341 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
7342 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
7343 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
7345 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
7346 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
7347 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
7348 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7351 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
7352 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
7353 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
7354 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
7356 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
7357 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
7358 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
7361 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
7362 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
7364 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
7365 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
7366 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
7368 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
7369 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
7370 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
7371 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
7373 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
7374 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
7375 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
7376 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
7380 + add charset to generated html.
7381 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
7382 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
7383 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
7384 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
7385 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
7386 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
7390 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
7391 key code in get_wch().
7392 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
7393 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
7394 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
7395 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
7396 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
7397 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
7400 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
7401 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
7403 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
7404 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
7405 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
7406 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
7409 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
7410 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
7411 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
7412 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
7413 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
7414 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
7415 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
7416 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
7417 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
7418 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
7421 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
7425 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
7426 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
7427 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
7428 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
7429 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
7430 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
7431 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
7434 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
7435 character versions as well.
7436 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
7438 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
7440 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
7441 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
7442 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
7443 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
7444 if gettimeofday() is available.
7447 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
7448 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
7451 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
7453 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
7454 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
7455 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
7456 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
7457 + update config.guess, config.sub
7460 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
7461 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
7462 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
7463 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
7464 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
7465 alias for 'function'.
7468 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
7469 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
7473 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
7474 + implement wgetn_wstr().
7475 + implement win_wchnstr().
7476 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
7477 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
7480 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
7481 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
7484 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
7485 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
7488 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
7489 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
7490 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
7492 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
7493 + implement unget_wch().
7494 + implement wget_wch().
7497 + regenerated html manpages.
7498 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
7499 + implement wins_wch().
7500 + implement win_wch().
7501 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
7504 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
7505 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
7508 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
7509 + document wunctrl, key_name.
7510 + implement key_name().
7511 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
7513 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
7517 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
7518 in spurious symlinks on install.
7521 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
7522 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
7523 box() and box_set() functions.
7524 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
7525 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
7526 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
7527 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
7528 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
7529 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
7530 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
7532 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
7534 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
7535 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
7536 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
7537 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
7539 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
7540 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
7543 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
7544 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
7546 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
7550 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
7552 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
7553 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
7554 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7555 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
7556 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
7557 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7558 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
7559 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
7560 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
7561 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
7562 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
7563 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
7564 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
7565 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
7566 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
7569 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
7570 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
7573 + update config.guess, config.sub
7574 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
7575 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
7578 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
7579 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
7580 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
7582 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
7583 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
7585 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
7586 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
7587 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7588 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
7591 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
7594 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
7595 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
7596 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
7597 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
7598 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
7599 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
7600 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
7601 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
7602 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
7604 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
7605 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
7606 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
7608 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
7610 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
7611 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
7612 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
7613 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
7614 work with SunOS nawk.
7615 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
7617 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
7618 case it uses multiple tokens.
7621 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
7622 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
7623 interrupted by that signal.
7624 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
7625 not needed with autoconf 2.52
7626 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
7627 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
7629 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
7630 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
7631 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
7632 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
7633 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
7636 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
7638 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
7639 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
7640 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
7641 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
7642 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
7643 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
7644 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
7645 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
7648 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
7649 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
7650 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
7651 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
7652 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
7653 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
7654 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
7655 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
7656 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
7659 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
7660 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
7661 may have different keypad() settings.
7662 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
7663 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
7664 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
7665 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
7666 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
7667 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
7668 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
7669 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
7671 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
7672 + update config.guess, config.sub from
7673 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7674 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
7678 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
7680 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
7681 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
7682 implementation in cygwin package).
7683 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
7684 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
7686 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
7687 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
7688 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
7689 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
7690 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
7691 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
7692 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
7693 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
7694 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
7696 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
7697 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
7698 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
7699 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
7700 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
7701 <jevans@apple.com>).
7702 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
7703 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
7704 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
7705 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
7706 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
7710 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
7711 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
7712 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
7713 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
7714 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
7715 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
7716 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
7717 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
7718 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
7719 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
7722 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
7725 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
7726 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
7727 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
7728 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
7729 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
7732 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
7733 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
7736 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
7737 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
7738 + implement wecho_wchar()
7739 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
7740 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
7741 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
7743 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
7744 in a trace by using curly braces.
7745 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
7746 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
7747 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
7748 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
7751 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
7752 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
7753 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
7754 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
7755 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
7759 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
7760 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
7761 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
7762 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
7763 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
7764 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
7765 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
7766 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
7770 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
7771 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
7772 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
7773 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
7774 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
7775 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
7776 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
7777 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
7778 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
7781 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
7782 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
7785 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
7786 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
7787 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
7788 <bbraun@synack.net>).
7789 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
7790 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
7792 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
7793 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
7795 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
7796 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
7799 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
7800 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
7801 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
7802 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
7803 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
7805 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
7806 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
7808 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
7809 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
7810 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
7811 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
7812 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
7815 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
7816 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
7818 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
7819 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
7820 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
7821 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
7824 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
7825 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
7826 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
7827 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
7828 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
7832 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
7833 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
7834 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
7836 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
7838 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
7840 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
7842 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
7843 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
7844 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
7845 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
7846 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
7847 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
7848 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
7849 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
7850 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
7854 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
7855 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
7856 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
7857 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
7858 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
7859 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
7860 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
7861 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
7862 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
7863 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
7865 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
7866 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
7867 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7868 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
7869 supports xterm mouse controls.
7870 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
7871 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
7872 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
7873 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
7874 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
7875 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
7876 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
7877 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
7878 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
7879 AX in a color xterm.
7880 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
7884 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
7885 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
7886 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
7887 + added llib-ncursesw.
7890 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
7891 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
7892 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
7893 header files (report by William P Setzer).
7894 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
7895 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
7896 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
7897 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7898 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
7899 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
7900 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
7901 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7902 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
7903 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7904 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
7905 obsolete with QNX RTP.
7906 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
7907 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
7908 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
7909 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
7912 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
7913 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
7914 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
7917 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
7918 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
7919 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
7920 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
7921 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
7922 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
7923 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
7924 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
7925 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
7926 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
7927 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
7928 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
7932 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
7933 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
7934 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
7935 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
7936 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
7937 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
7938 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7941 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
7942 new wide-character structures.
7943 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
7944 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
7945 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
7946 compiling for wide-character configuration.
7947 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
7951 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
7953 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
7954 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
7955 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
7957 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
7958 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
7959 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
7962 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
7963 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
7964 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
7967 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
7968 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
7969 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
7970 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
7971 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
7972 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
7973 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
7976 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
7977 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
7978 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
7979 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
7980 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
7981 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
7982 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
7983 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
7984 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
7987 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
7988 which may be in libutf8.
7989 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
7990 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
7991 links (Debian #99550).
7992 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
7993 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
7994 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
7995 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
7996 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
7997 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
7998 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
7999 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
8002 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
8003 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
8006 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
8007 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
8008 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
8009 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
8010 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
8012 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
8013 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
8014 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
8015 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
8016 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
8017 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
8018 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
8019 are used to manipulate attributes.
8020 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
8021 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
8022 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
8023 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
8024 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
8025 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
8027 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
8028 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
8029 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
8030 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
8031 we are using chtype data.
8032 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
8034 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
8036 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
8037 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
8038 where a pointer would be more useful.
8039 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
8040 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
8041 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
8042 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
8043 passing cchar_t's by address.
8044 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
8045 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
8046 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
8047 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
8048 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
8049 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
8050 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
8051 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
8054 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
8055 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
8056 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
8057 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
8058 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
8060 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
8061 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
8062 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
8065 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
8066 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
8067 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
8068 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
8069 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
8070 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
8071 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
8072 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
8073 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
8074 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
8075 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
8076 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
8079 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
8080 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
8081 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
8084 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
8085 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
8088 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
8089 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
8090 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
8091 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
8092 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
8095 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
8096 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
8097 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
8098 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
8099 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
8100 <bsittler@iname.com>).
8101 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
8102 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
8103 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
8104 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
8105 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
8108 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
8109 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
8110 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
8111 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
8112 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
8113 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
8114 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
8115 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
8116 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
8117 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
8118 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
8119 any shots there, but the computer did.
8120 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
8121 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
8125 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
8126 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
8127 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
8128 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
8129 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
8130 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8133 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
8134 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
8135 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
8136 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
8137 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
8139 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
8141 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
8142 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
8144 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
8146 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
8147 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
8150 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
8151 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
8152 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
8153 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
8154 interface from C++ binding.
8155 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
8156 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
8157 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
8158 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
8160 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
8161 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
8162 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
8163 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
8166 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
8167 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
8168 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
8169 (patch by Todd C Miller).
8172 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
8175 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
8179 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
8180 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
8181 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
8182 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
8183 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
8184 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
8185 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
8186 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
8187 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
8188 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
8189 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
8190 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
8193 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
8194 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
8196 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
8197 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
8198 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
8199 did not do this already.
8200 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
8201 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8202 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
8203 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
8204 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
8205 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
8206 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
8207 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
8210 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
8211 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
8214 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
8215 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
8216 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
8217 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
8219 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
8221 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
8222 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
8224 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
8225 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
8226 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
8227 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
8228 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
8231 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
8232 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
8233 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
8234 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
8237 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
8238 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
8239 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
8242 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
8243 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
8244 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
8245 work with 'indent') -TD
8248 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
8249 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
8250 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8251 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
8252 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
8254 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
8255 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
8256 termcap and terminfo functions
8257 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
8261 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
8262 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
8263 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
8264 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
8265 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
8266 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
8268 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
8269 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
8270 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
8271 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
8272 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
8273 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
8274 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
8275 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
8278 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
8279 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
8280 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
8281 /usr rather than /usr/local.
8284 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
8285 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
8286 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
8287 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
8289 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
8290 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
8291 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
8292 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
8293 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
8294 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
8295 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
8296 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
8299 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
8300 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
8301 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
8302 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
8303 + change trace output to binary format.
8304 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
8305 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
8306 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
8307 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
8308 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
8309 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
8310 the overwrite logic.
8313 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
8314 + resync config.guess, config.sub
8315 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
8316 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
8317 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
8318 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
8320 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
8321 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
8324 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8325 + update generated html files from manpages.
8326 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
8328 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
8329 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
8330 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
8331 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
8332 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8333 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
8334 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
8335 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
8338 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
8339 wrapping at the right margin.
8340 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
8341 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
8342 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
8344 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
8345 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
8346 understands how to run tbl automatically.
8347 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
8348 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
8349 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
8350 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
8351 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
8352 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
8353 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
8354 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
8355 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
8356 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
8357 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
8358 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
8359 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
8360 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
8361 option --with-libtool.
8362 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
8363 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
8364 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
8365 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
8366 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
8369 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
8370 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
8371 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
8372 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
8373 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
8374 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
8375 > patch by Todd C Miller:
8376 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
8377 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
8378 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
8379 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
8380 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
8381 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
8382 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
8383 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
8384 to set up a 3-button mouse.
8385 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
8386 replace select() call.
8389 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
8390 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
8391 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
8392 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8393 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
8394 cursor report before decoding.
8395 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
8396 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
8397 (see assume_default_colors()).
8398 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
8399 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
8401 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
8402 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
8403 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
8405 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
8406 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
8407 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
8408 for that capability.
8409 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
8410 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
8411 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
8412 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
8413 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
8414 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
8417 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
8418 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
8419 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
8420 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
8421 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
8422 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
8423 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
8424 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
8425 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
8427 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
8428 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
8429 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
8430 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
8431 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
8432 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
8433 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8436 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
8437 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
8438 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
8439 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
8440 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
8442 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
8443 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
8444 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
8445 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
8446 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
8447 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
8448 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
8449 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
8450 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
8451 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
8452 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
8453 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
8454 the expected number of parameters.
8455 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
8456 the option value is indeed a number.
8457 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
8458 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
8459 from the other signals.
8462 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
8463 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
8464 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
8467 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
8468 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
8470 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
8471 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
8472 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
8474 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
8475 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
8476 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
8477 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
8478 character set attribute from the displayed text.
8479 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
8480 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
8481 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
8482 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
8483 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
8484 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8487 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
8488 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
8489 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
8490 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
8491 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
8492 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
8493 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8494 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
8495 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
8496 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
8498 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
8499 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
8501 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
8502 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
8503 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
8504 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
8505 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
8506 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
8509 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
8510 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
8511 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
8512 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
8513 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
8514 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
8515 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
8516 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
8517 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
8518 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8519 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
8520 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
8521 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
8522 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
8523 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
8525 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
8526 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
8527 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
8530 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
8531 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
8532 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
8533 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
8535 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
8536 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
8537 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
8538 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
8539 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
8540 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
8541 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
8543 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
8544 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
8545 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
8546 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
8547 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
8548 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
8549 a default program-prefix.
8550 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
8551 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
8554 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
8555 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
8556 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
8557 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
8558 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
8559 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
8560 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
8561 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
8562 although the name is misleading).
8563 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
8564 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
8565 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
8566 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
8569 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
8570 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
8571 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
8573 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
8574 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
8576 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
8577 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
8578 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
8580 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
8581 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
8582 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
8583 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
8584 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
8585 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
8586 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
8587 test/configure script.
8588 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
8589 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
8590 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
8593 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
8596 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
8597 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
8598 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
8599 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
8600 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
8602 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
8603 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
8604 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
8606 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
8607 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
8610 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
8611 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8612 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
8613 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
8614 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
8615 there's still the explicit configure option).
8616 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
8617 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
8618 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
8619 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
8620 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
8621 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
8622 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
8623 simplify working around implementations that define random
8624 combinations of the related macros to zero.
8625 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
8626 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
8627 > patches by Bruno Haible:
8628 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
8629 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
8630 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
8631 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
8635 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
8636 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8637 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
8638 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
8639 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
8640 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
8641 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
8642 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
8643 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
8644 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
8645 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
8646 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
8647 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
8648 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
8651 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8652 + document configure options in INSTALL.
8653 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
8654 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
8655 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
8656 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
8657 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
8658 list of generated functions.
8659 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
8660 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
8661 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
8663 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
8664 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
8665 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
8666 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
8667 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
8669 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
8670 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
8671 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
8672 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
8673 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
8674 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
8675 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
8676 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
8677 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
8678 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
8679 examples cited in announce.html
8680 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
8681 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
8682 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
8683 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
8684 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
8685 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
8686 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
8687 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
8690 20000701 pre-release
8691 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
8692 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
8693 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
8694 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
8695 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
8696 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
8698 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
8700 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
8702 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
8703 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
8704 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
8705 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
8706 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
8708 20000624 pre-release
8709 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
8710 that happen to render the same display colors.
8711 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
8712 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
8713 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
8714 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
8715 normalized value for cursor_address.
8716 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
8719 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
8720 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
8721 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
8722 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
8723 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
8724 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
8725 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
8726 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
8727 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
8728 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
8729 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
8730 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
8731 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
8735 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
8736 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
8737 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
8738 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
8739 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
8740 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
8741 allows larger symbol tables.
8742 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
8743 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
8744 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
8745 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
8749 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
8750 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
8751 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
8752 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
8753 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
8754 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
8755 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
8756 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
8757 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
8758 + add a "make libs" rule.
8759 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
8760 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
8761 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
8762 with existing ncurses libraries.
8765 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
8766 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
8767 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
8768 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
8769 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
8770 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
8771 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
8772 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
8773 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
8774 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
8775 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
8776 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
8777 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
8778 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
8781 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
8782 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
8783 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
8784 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
8788 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
8789 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
8791 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
8792 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
8793 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
8796 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
8797 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
8798 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
8799 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
8800 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
8802 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
8803 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
8804 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
8805 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
8806 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
8807 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
8808 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
8809 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
8812 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
8814 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
8815 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
8816 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
8817 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
8818 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
8819 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
8820 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
8821 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
8822 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
8823 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
8824 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
8825 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
8828 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
8829 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
8830 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
8831 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
8832 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8833 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
8834 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
8835 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
8836 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
8837 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
8838 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
8839 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
8840 means that it will not recur for that special case.
8841 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
8842 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
8843 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
8844 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8847 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
8848 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
8849 bg300-rv in esr's version.
8850 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
8851 (fixes Debian #61088).
8852 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
8853 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
8854 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
8857 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
8858 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
8859 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
8860 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
8861 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
8864 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
8865 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
8866 improvement in setting default colors.
8867 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
8868 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
8869 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
8871 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
8872 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
8873 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
8874 check for buffer overflow.
8875 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
8876 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
8877 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
8878 such as "infocmp -Fa".
8881 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
8882 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
8883 is not permitted in termcap.
8884 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
8885 integrating 20000318.
8888 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
8889 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
8890 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
8891 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
8893 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
8894 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
8895 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
8896 result for OS/2 EMX.
8897 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
8898 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
8899 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
8900 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
8901 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
8902 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
8905 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
8906 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
8907 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
8909 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
8910 displaying string capabilities.
8911 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
8912 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
8913 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
8914 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
8915 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
8916 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
8918 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
8919 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
8921 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
8922 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
8923 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
8924 may not produce the same result as before.
8925 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
8927 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
8928 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
8930 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
8931 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
8933 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
8934 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8935 + drop support for gnat 3.10
8936 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
8937 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
8940 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
8941 made it check only one entry at a time.
8942 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
8944 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
8945 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
8946 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
8947 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
8948 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
8949 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
8950 address out of bounds.
8951 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
8952 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
8953 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
8954 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
8956 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
8957 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
8958 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
8960 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
8963 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
8964 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
8965 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
8966 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
8968 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
8969 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
8970 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
8971 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
8972 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
8973 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
8975 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
8976 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
8977 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
8978 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
8979 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
8980 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
8981 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
8982 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
8985 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
8986 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8987 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8988 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
8989 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
8990 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
8994 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
8995 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
8996 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8997 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
8998 colors are white on black.
8999 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
9000 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
9001 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
9002 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
9003 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
9006 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
9007 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
9008 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
9009 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
9010 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
9011 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
9012 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
9013 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
9014 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
9015 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
9016 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
9019 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
9020 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
9021 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
9022 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
9023 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
9024 to wait indefinitely.
9027 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
9028 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
9029 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
9030 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
9031 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
9032 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
9033 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
9034 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
9035 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
9036 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9037 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
9038 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
9042 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
9043 programs build with c++/g++.
9044 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
9045 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
9046 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
9047 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
9048 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
9049 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
9050 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
9051 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
9054 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
9056 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
9057 terminfo entries -TD
9058 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
9059 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
9060 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
9061 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
9063 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
9064 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
9066 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
9068 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
9069 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
9070 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
9071 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
9072 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
9073 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
9074 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
9075 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
9076 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
9080 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
9081 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
9082 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
9083 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
9084 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
9085 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
9086 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
9087 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
9088 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
9089 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
9090 use_extended_names().
9093 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
9094 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
9095 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
9096 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
9097 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
9098 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
9099 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
9100 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
9101 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
9102 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
9103 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
9104 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
9105 + add manpage for infotocap
9108 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
9109 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
9110 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
9111 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
9113 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
9114 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
9115 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
9116 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
9117 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
9118 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
9119 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
9120 initc for xterm-88color.
9121 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
9125 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
9126 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
9128 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
9129 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
9130 SP, since it is part of that struct.
9131 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
9133 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
9134 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
9135 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
9136 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
9137 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
9138 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
9139 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
9140 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
9141 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
9143 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
9144 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
9145 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9146 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
9148 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
9151 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
9152 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
9153 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
9154 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
9155 over the use of default colors.
9156 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
9157 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
9158 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
9159 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
9160 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
9161 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
9162 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
9163 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
9166 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
9167 <robert@progplus.com>)
9168 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
9169 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
9170 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
9173 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
9174 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
9175 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
9177 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
9178 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
9179 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
9180 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
9181 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
9182 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
9183 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
9184 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
9185 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
9186 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
9187 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
9188 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
9190 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
9191 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
9194 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9195 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
9197 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
9198 (request by Bob van der Poel).
9199 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
9200 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
9201 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
9202 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
9203 libraries by default.
9204 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
9206 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
9207 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
9209 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
9210 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
9211 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
9212 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
9213 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
9214 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
9215 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
9217 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
9219 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
9220 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
9221 advice from Bela Lubkin).
9222 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
9223 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9224 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
9225 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
9226 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
9227 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
9230 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
9233 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
9234 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
9235 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
9236 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
9237 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
9238 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
9239 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
9240 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
9241 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
9242 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
9245 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
9246 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
9247 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9248 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
9249 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
9250 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
9252 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
9253 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
9254 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
9255 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
9256 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
9257 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
9258 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
9259 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
9260 is used), and in color.
9261 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
9262 shared library rules.
9265 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
9266 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
9267 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
9268 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
9269 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
9270 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
9271 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
9272 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
9273 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
9274 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
9275 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
9276 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
9277 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
9278 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
9279 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
9280 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
9281 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9284 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
9285 <j@interface-business.de>).
9286 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
9287 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
9288 that hard-links work on Unix again.
9289 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
9290 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
9291 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
9294 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
9295 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
9296 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
9297 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
9298 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
9299 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
9300 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
9301 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
9302 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
9303 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
9304 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
9305 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
9306 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
9309 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
9310 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
9311 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
9312 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
9313 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
9314 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
9315 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
9316 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
9317 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
9318 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
9319 function works only for sockets.
9320 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
9321 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
9322 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
9323 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
9324 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
9325 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
9326 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
9327 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
9328 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
9329 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
9332 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
9333 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
9334 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
9335 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
9336 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
9337 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
9338 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
9341 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
9342 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
9343 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
9345 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
9346 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
9347 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
9348 nonfunctional link().
9349 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
9350 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
9353 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
9354 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
9355 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
9358 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
9359 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
9360 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
9361 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
9362 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
9363 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
9364 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9365 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
9366 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
9367 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
9368 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
9369 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
9370 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
9371 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
9372 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
9373 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
9374 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
9375 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
9376 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
9377 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
9380 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
9381 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
9382 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
9383 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
9384 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
9385 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
9386 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
9387 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
9388 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
9389 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
9390 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
9391 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
9392 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
9393 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
9394 short-circuit expression evaluation.
9395 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
9396 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
9398 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
9399 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
9400 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
9401 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
9402 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
9406 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
9407 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
9409 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
9410 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
9411 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
9414 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
9415 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
9416 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
9417 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
9418 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
9419 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
9420 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
9421 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
9423 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
9424 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
9425 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9428 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
9429 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
9430 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
9431 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
9432 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
9433 --with-rcs-ids option.
9436 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
9437 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
9439 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
9440 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
9441 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
9445 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
9446 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
9447 BeOS predefines a bool type.
9448 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
9449 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
9450 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
9451 option to infocmp -TD
9452 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9453 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
9454 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
9455 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
9456 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
9457 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
9458 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
9461 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9462 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
9463 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
9464 + change interface version-number to 1.0
9465 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
9468 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
9469 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
9470 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
9471 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
9472 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
9473 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
9474 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
9475 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
9476 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
9477 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
9479 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
9480 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
9481 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
9484 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
9485 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
9486 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
9488 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
9489 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
9492 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
9493 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9494 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
9495 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
9496 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
9499 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
9503 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
9504 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
9505 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
9506 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
9507 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
9509 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
9510 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
9511 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
9512 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
9515 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
9516 fields, and showing forms within panels.
9517 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
9518 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
9519 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
9520 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
9521 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
9522 ownership may change).
9525 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
9527 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
9528 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
9529 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9530 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
9531 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
9532 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
9533 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
9535 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
9536 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
9537 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
9538 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
9539 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
9540 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
9543 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
9544 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
9546 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
9547 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9548 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
9549 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9552 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
9553 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
9554 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9555 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
9556 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
9557 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
9561 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
9562 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9563 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
9564 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9565 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
9566 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
9567 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
9568 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
9571 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
9572 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
9573 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
9574 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9577 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
9578 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
9581 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
9582 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
9583 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
9584 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
9585 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9586 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
9587 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
9588 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
9589 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
9590 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
9591 reset for the next newterm.
9592 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
9593 terminal has true SLKs.
9594 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
9597 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
9598 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
9599 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
9600 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
9601 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
9602 read of the extended capabilities.
9603 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
9604 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
9605 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
9606 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
9607 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
9608 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
9609 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
9610 throughout ncurses library.
9611 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
9612 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
9614 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
9615 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
9616 + regenerate some of the html documentation
9617 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
9620 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
9621 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
9622 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
9623 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
9624 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
9626 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
9628 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
9629 defined for a keycode.
9630 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
9631 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
9632 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
9633 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
9634 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
9636 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9637 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
9638 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
9639 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
9641 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
9642 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
9644 + modify configuration scripts to
9645 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
9646 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
9647 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
9648 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
9649 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
9650 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
9651 + rename ada_include directory to src.
9654 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
9655 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
9656 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
9660 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
9661 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
9662 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
9663 though the problem is more general.
9664 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
9665 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
9666 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
9667 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
9669 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
9670 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
9671 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
9674 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
9675 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9676 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
9677 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
9678 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
9679 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9680 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
9681 be any substring rather than the prefix.
9682 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
9683 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
9684 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
9685 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
9686 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
9687 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
9688 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
9689 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
9690 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
9691 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
9692 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
9693 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
9694 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
9695 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
9696 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
9697 --with-shlib-version option.
9700 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
9701 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
9702 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
9703 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9704 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
9705 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9706 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
9707 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
9708 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
9709 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
9710 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
9711 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
9712 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
9713 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
9714 source distribution.
9717 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
9718 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
9719 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
9721 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
9722 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
9723 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
9724 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
9725 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
9728 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
9731 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
9732 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
9733 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
9734 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9735 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
9736 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
9737 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
9738 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
9739 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9740 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
9741 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
9742 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
9743 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
9744 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
9746 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
9747 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
9748 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
9749 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
9752 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
9754 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
9755 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
9756 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
9757 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
9758 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
9759 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
9760 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
9761 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
9762 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
9763 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
9764 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
9765 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
9766 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
9767 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
9768 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
9769 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
9770 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
9774 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
9775 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
9776 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
9777 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
9778 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
9779 running screen built with ncurses.
9780 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
9781 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
9782 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
9785 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
9788 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
9789 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
9790 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
9791 by a Debian bug report).
9792 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
9793 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
9795 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
9796 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
9797 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
9798 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
9802 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
9803 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
9804 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
9805 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
9806 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
9807 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
9808 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
9809 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
9810 (reported by H.J.Lu).
9813 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
9814 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
9815 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
9816 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
9817 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
9818 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
9819 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
9820 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
9821 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
9822 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
9823 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9824 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
9826 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
9827 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
9829 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
9831 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
9833 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
9834 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
9838 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
9839 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
9840 address rather than its length.
9841 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
9842 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
9843 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
9844 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
9845 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
9846 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
9847 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
9848 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
9849 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
9850 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
9853 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
9854 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
9856 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
9857 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
9858 for an older version of ncurses.
9859 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
9860 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
9861 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
9862 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
9863 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
9864 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
9865 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
9866 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
9867 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9868 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
9869 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
9870 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
9872 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
9873 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
9876 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
9877 (request by Larry Virden).
9878 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9879 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
9880 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
9881 changes to ncurses library.
9882 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
9883 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
9884 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
9885 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9886 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
9887 + some Ada95 cosmetics
9888 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
9889 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
9890 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
9893 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
9894 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
9895 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
9896 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
9897 proposed changes to ncurses library.
9898 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
9899 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
9900 broken configure scripts.
9903 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
9905 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
9906 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
9907 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
9909 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
9910 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
9914 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
9915 with --srcdir option.
9916 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
9917 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
9918 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
9919 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
9920 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
9921 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9924 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
9925 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
9926 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
9928 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
9929 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
9930 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
9931 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
9932 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
9933 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
9934 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
9935 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
9938 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
9939 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9942 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
9943 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
9944 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
9945 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
9946 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
9947 some older entries - TD
9948 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
9949 since that is a little more efficient.
9950 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
9951 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
9952 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
9953 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
9954 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
9955 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
9957 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
9959 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9960 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
9962 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
9963 + use format string for printing strings.
9964 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
9967 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
9968 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
9969 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
9970 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
9971 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
9972 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
9973 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
9974 > patches by Todd C Miller:
9975 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
9976 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
9977 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
9978 dealing with env variables again.
9979 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
9980 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
9981 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
9982 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
9983 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
9984 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9985 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
9986 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
9987 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
9988 newhash data to SP struct.
9989 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
9990 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
9991 function's parameter which is deleted.
9992 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
9993 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
9994 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
9995 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
9999 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
10000 consistent treatment.
10001 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
10002 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
10003 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
10004 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
10007 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
10008 capability name, as in SVr4.
10009 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
10010 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
10011 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
10014 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
10015 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
10016 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
10017 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
10018 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
10019 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
10020 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
10021 > from esr's terminfo version:
10022 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
10023 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
10024 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
10027 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
10028 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
10029 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
10030 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
10031 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
10032 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
10033 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
10034 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
10035 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
10036 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
10040 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
10041 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
10042 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
10043 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
10044 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
10047 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
10048 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
10052 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
10053 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
10054 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
10055 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
10056 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
10057 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
10058 as obtained via ioctl.
10061 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
10062 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
10063 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
10064 turning attributes off.
10065 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
10066 initializing multiple screens.
10067 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
10068 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
10069 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
10072 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
10073 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
10074 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
10075 with Solaris curses).
10076 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
10077 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
10078 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
10079 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
10080 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
10081 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
10082 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
10083 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
10086 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
10087 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
10088 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
10089 (request by QingLong).
10090 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
10091 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
10092 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
10093 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
10095 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
10096 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
10097 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
10098 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
10099 otherwise simply exit with an error.
10102 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
10103 "_g" for a debug build).
10104 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
10105 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
10106 compile/link working Ada95 program.
10107 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
10108 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
10109 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
10110 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
10111 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
10112 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
10116 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
10117 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
10118 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
10119 corresponds to vt100.
10120 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
10121 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
10124 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
10125 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
10126 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
10127 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
10128 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
10129 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
10130 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
10131 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
10132 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
10133 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10136 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
10137 several minor errors/omissions.
10138 + implement tparm %l format.
10139 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
10141 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
10144 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
10145 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
10146 to be written to large screens.
10147 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
10148 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
10149 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
10150 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
10151 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
10153 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
10154 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10155 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
10156 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
10159 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
10161 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
10163 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
10164 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
10165 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
10166 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10167 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
10168 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
10169 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
10171 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
10172 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
10174 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
10177 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
10178 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
10179 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
10180 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
10181 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
10182 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
10183 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
10184 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
10185 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
10186 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
10189 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
10190 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10191 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
10192 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
10193 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
10194 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
10195 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
10196 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
10197 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
10198 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
10199 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
10200 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
10201 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
10204 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
10205 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
10206 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
10207 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
10208 which contains a colon in the description field.
10209 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
10210 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
10211 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
10213 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
10214 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
10217 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
10218 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
10219 color pair numbers.
10220 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
10221 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
10222 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
10223 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
10224 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
10225 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
10226 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
10227 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
10228 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
10229 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
10230 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
10231 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
10232 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
10233 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
10234 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
10235 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
10236 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
10237 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
10238 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
10239 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
10240 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
10241 comparisons out of inner loop.
10244 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
10245 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
10246 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
10247 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
10248 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
10249 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
10250 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
10251 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
10252 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
10254 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
10255 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
10256 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
10259 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
10260 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
10261 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
10262 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
10263 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
10264 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
10265 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
10266 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
10267 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
10268 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
10271 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
10272 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
10273 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
10274 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
10276 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
10277 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
10278 by Juergen Pfeifer).
10281 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
10282 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
10285 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
10286 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
10287 uses them when they are available.
10288 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
10289 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
10290 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
10291 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
10293 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
10296 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
10297 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
10298 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
10299 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
10301 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10302 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
10303 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
10304 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
10305 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
10306 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
10307 use --disable-overwrite).
10308 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
10309 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
10310 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
10311 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
10312 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
10313 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
10314 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
10315 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
10316 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
10320 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
10321 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10322 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
10323 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10324 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
10325 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
10326 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
10327 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
10329 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
10330 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
10331 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
10332 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
10334 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
10335 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
10336 parameter according to XSI.
10337 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
10338 reflect above enhancements.
10341 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
10342 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
10343 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
10344 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
10346 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
10348 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
10350 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
10351 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
10352 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
10355 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
10356 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
10357 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10358 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
10359 <claesg@algonet.se>).
10360 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
10361 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
10364 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
10365 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
10366 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
10368 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
10369 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
10370 by Florian La Roche).
10371 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
10372 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
10373 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
10374 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10377 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
10378 distributions, though it is retained in development.
10379 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
10381 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
10382 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
10383 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
10384 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
10385 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
10388 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
10390 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
10391 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
10392 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
10393 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
10394 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
10395 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
10397 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
10398 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
10399 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
10401 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
10402 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
10403 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
10406 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
10407 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
10409 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
10410 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
10412 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
10414 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
10416 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
10418 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
10419 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
10420 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
10421 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
10422 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
10424 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
10425 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
10427 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
10428 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
10429 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
10430 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
10431 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
10432 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
10433 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
10434 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
10435 turn off attributes inconsistently.
10438 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
10439 test for no_color_video.
10440 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
10442 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
10443 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
10444 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
10445 <brett@xylan.com>).
10446 > from reports by Fred Fish:
10447 + add configure-test for isascii
10448 + add configure-test for -lm library.
10449 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
10450 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
10451 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
10452 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
10453 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
10454 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
10455 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
10457 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
10458 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
10460 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
10461 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
10462 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
10463 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
10464 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
10467 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
10468 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
10470 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
10472 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
10473 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
10474 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
10476 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
10477 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
10479 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
10481 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
10482 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
10483 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
10484 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10485 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
10486 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
10487 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10488 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
10489 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
10490 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
10491 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
10492 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
10493 fields are also always inactive.
10494 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
10495 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
10498 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
10499 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
10500 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
10501 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
10502 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
10503 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
10504 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
10505 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
10506 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
10509 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
10510 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
10511 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
10512 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
10513 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
10515 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
10516 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
10517 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
10518 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
10519 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
10520 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
10521 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
10522 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
10523 cross-platform compatibility.
10524 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
10525 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
10526 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10527 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
10529 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
10533 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
10534 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
10535 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
10536 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
10537 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
10538 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
10539 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
10540 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
10541 that simply cannot scroll.
10542 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
10543 embedded \200 characters are matched.
10544 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
10548 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
10549 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
10550 functions from the build.
10551 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
10552 functions as a separate library.
10553 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
10554 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
10555 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
10556 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
10557 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
10558 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
10559 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
10560 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
10561 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
10563 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10564 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
10565 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
10568 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
10569 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
10571 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
10572 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
10573 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
10574 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
10577 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
10578 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
10579 + add configure check for 'tack'.
10580 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
10581 for Debian configuration.
10582 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
10584 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
10585 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
10587 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
10588 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
10589 case of wide characters in chtype.
10590 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
10591 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
10592 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
10595 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
10596 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
10597 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
10598 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
10599 have set root's umask to 077.
10600 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
10601 end of output when they had embedded comments.
10602 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
10603 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
10604 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
10605 correct logic for handling backslashes.
10606 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
10607 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
10608 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
10609 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
10610 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
10611 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
10613 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10614 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
10616 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
10617 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
10619 + resync of the html version of the manpages
10622 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
10623 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
10625 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
10626 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
10627 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
10628 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
10629 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10630 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
10631 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
10632 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
10636 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
10638 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
10639 comments from Daniel Weaver.
10640 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
10641 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
10642 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
10643 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
10645 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
10646 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
10647 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
10649 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
10650 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
10653 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
10657 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
10658 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
10659 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
10660 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
10661 in call to delay_output().
10662 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
10663 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
10664 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
10665 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
10666 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
10668 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
10669 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
10670 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
10671 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
10672 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
10673 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
10674 so that will work on NeXT.
10675 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
10676 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
10679 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
10681 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
10683 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
10684 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
10685 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
10686 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
10687 when that feature is not configured.
10688 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
10689 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
10690 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
10691 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
10692 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
10693 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
10694 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
10695 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
10698 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
10700 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
10701 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
10703 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
10705 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
10706 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
10709 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
10710 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
10711 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
10712 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
10713 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
10714 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
10715 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
10716 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
10717 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
10719 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
10720 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
10721 tputs() if called from that function.
10722 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
10723 tputs works when SP is not set.
10724 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10725 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
10726 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
10727 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
10728 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
10729 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
10732 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
10733 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
10734 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
10735 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
10736 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
10737 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
10738 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
10739 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
10740 _nc_update_screensize().
10741 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
10743 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
10744 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
10745 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
10746 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10747 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
10748 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10749 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
10750 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
10751 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
10752 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
10754 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
10758 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
10759 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
10760 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
10762 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
10763 click-interval without modifying it.
10764 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
10765 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
10767 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
10768 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
10769 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
10770 other ncurses headers.
10771 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
10772 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
10773 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
10774 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
10775 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
10776 characters output in delay_output().
10777 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
10778 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
10779 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
10780 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10781 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
10783 + typo in configure --help.
10784 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
10785 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
10786 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
10787 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
10790 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10791 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
10794 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
10795 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
10796 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
10797 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
10798 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
10800 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
10801 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
10802 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
10803 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
10804 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
10805 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
10806 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
10807 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
10808 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
10809 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
10810 form (sorted, unique mapping).
10811 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
10812 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
10813 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10814 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
10815 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10816 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10817 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
10818 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
10819 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
10820 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
10821 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
10822 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
10823 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10824 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
10825 NCursesPanel class.
10826 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
10827 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
10828 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
10829 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
10830 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
10831 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
10835 + add 'deinstall' rules.
10836 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
10837 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
10838 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
10839 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
10840 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
10841 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
10843 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
10844 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10845 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
10847 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
10848 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
10849 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
10850 scripts are also provided.
10853 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
10855 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
10856 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
10857 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
10858 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
10859 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
10860 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
10861 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
10862 generating lint library.
10863 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
10865 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
10866 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
10867 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
10868 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
10869 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
10870 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
10871 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
10872 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
10873 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
10874 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
10876 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10877 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
10879 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
10881 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
10882 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
10883 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
10884 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
10885 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
10886 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
10887 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10888 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
10889 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
10893 + modify rain.c to use color.
10894 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
10895 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
10896 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
10897 of configure cache variables in 970906.
10898 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
10899 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
10900 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
10901 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
10902 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
10903 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
10904 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
10905 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
10906 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
10907 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10908 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
10910 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
10911 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
10912 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
10913 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
10914 NCursesPanel class.
10915 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
10916 NCursesWindow class.
10917 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
10918 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
10919 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
10920 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
10922 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
10923 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
10924 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
10925 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
10926 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
10927 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
10929 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
10930 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
10931 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
10932 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
10933 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
10934 already disconnected.
10935 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
10936 navigation requests.
10937 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
10938 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
10939 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
10940 forms field by index.
10941 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
10943 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
10944 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
10945 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
10946 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
10947 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
10948 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
10949 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
10950 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
10951 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
10953 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
10954 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
10955 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
10957 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
10958 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10959 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
10960 know that auto_right_margin is true.
10961 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
10962 shifting character to LR corner.
10963 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
10964 terminal right margin mode is known.
10965 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
10966 _nc_scroll_window().
10967 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
10968 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
10970 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
10971 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
10972 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
10973 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
10975 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
10976 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
10977 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
10978 the terminal window is resized.
10981 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
10982 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
10983 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
10984 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
10985 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
10986 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
10987 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
10988 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
10989 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10990 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
10991 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
10993 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
10994 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
10995 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
10997 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
10998 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
11000 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
11004 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
11005 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
11006 lib_printw.c functions.
11007 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
11008 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
11009 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
11010 force the screen to scroll.
11013 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
11015 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
11017 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
11018 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
11020 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
11021 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
11022 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11023 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
11024 was in the wrong order.
11025 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
11027 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
11029 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
11030 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
11031 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
11032 invoke wechochar() instead.
11033 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
11036 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
11037 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
11038 work properly when we add calls to that function.
11039 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
11040 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
11041 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11042 + several fixes to getch:
11043 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
11044 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
11045 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
11046 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
11048 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
11049 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
11050 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
11051 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
11052 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
11054 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
11055 line-breakout optimization
11056 + improve hashmap.c by
11057 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
11058 2. not marking lines with offset 0
11059 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
11060 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
11061 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
11062 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
11064 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
11065 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
11066 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
11067 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
11069 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
11071 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
11072 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
11073 stored/retrieved via set_term().
11074 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
11078 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
11079 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
11080 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
11082 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
11083 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
11084 before looking for (n)curses library.
11085 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
11086 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
11087 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
11088 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
11089 include ncurses_cfg.h
11090 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
11091 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
11092 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11093 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
11094 example firstlast.c
11095 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
11096 common subexpressions.
11097 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
11098 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
11099 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
11100 against the background character.
11101 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
11102 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
11103 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
11104 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
11105 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
11106 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
11107 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
11108 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
11109 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
11112 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
11113 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
11114 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
11115 terminal type ncr7900).
11116 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
11117 package is built with an install-prefix.
11118 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
11119 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
11120 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
11121 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
11122 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
11123 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
11124 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
11125 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
11126 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
11127 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11128 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
11129 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
11130 by Juergen Pfeifer).
11133 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
11134 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
11135 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
11136 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
11137 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
11138 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
11139 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
11140 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
11141 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
11142 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
11143 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
11146 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
11147 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
11148 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
11149 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
11150 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
11151 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
11152 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
11153 configuration of wide-characters.
11154 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
11155 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
11156 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
11157 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
11158 does not have getttynam().
11159 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
11160 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
11161 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
11162 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11163 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
11164 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11165 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
11166 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
11167 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
11168 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
11169 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
11173 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
11174 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11175 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
11176 options should be accompanied by a message.
11177 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
11178 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
11180 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
11182 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11183 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
11184 better when csr is not available.
11185 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
11186 after failure to scroll one.
11187 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
11188 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
11189 case and wrong string in TRACE.
11190 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11191 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
11195 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
11196 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
11198 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
11199 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
11200 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
11201 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
11202 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
11205 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
11206 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
11207 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
11209 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
11212 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
11213 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
11214 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
11215 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
11216 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
11217 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
11218 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
11219 (reported by Larry Virden).
11220 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
11221 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
11223 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11224 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
11225 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
11226 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
11230 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
11231 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
11232 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
11233 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
11234 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
11236 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
11237 terminfo description to the stored strings.
11238 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
11239 terminfo descriptions.
11240 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
11241 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
11242 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
11243 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
11244 option is a stopgap.
11245 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
11246 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
11249 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
11250 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
11251 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
11252 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
11253 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
11254 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
11258 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
11259 lines in curscr that are shifted.
11260 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
11261 than a series of function calls.
11262 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
11263 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
11264 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
11265 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
11266 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
11267 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
11268 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
11269 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11270 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11273 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
11274 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
11275 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
11276 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
11277 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
11278 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
11279 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
11280 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
11281 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
11282 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
11283 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
11284 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
11285 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
11286 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
11287 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11288 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
11289 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11290 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
11291 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11294 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
11295 use only the fallback data.
11296 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
11297 terminal descriptions.
11298 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
11299 still assume there's an ncurses.h
11300 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
11301 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
11302 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
11303 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
11304 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
11305 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
11307 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
11308 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
11309 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
11310 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
11311 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
11312 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
11313 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
11315 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
11317 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
11318 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
11320 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
11322 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
11323 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
11324 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
11325 original implementation (1.9.6).
11326 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
11327 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
11328 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
11329 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
11331 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
11332 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
11333 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
11334 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
11335 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
11336 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11337 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
11338 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
11340 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
11341 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
11342 field is not possible.
11343 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
11344 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
11345 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
11346 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
11348 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
11349 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
11350 in forms/menus libraries.
11353 + add description of xterm-16color.
11354 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
11355 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
11357 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
11358 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
11359 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
11360 works properly w/o first doing "make".
11361 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
11362 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
11364 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
11365 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
11366 bounding box without tidying up).
11367 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
11368 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
11369 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
11371 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
11372 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11373 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
11374 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
11375 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11378 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
11379 option is specified.
11380 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
11381 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
11383 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
11384 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
11385 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
11386 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
11387 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
11388 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
11389 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
11390 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
11391 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
11392 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
11393 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
11394 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
11395 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
11396 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
11398 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
11399 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
11400 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11401 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
11402 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
11403 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11404 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
11405 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
11406 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11407 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
11408 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
11410 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
11412 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
11414 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
11415 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
11418 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
11419 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
11420 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
11421 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
11423 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
11424 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
11425 during a call to newwin.
11426 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
11427 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
11428 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
11429 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
11430 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
11431 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11432 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
11433 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
11436 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
11437 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
11438 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
11439 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
11441 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
11444 970505 4.1 pre-release
11445 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
11447 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
11448 unnecessary recompiles.
11449 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
11450 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
11451 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
11452 overwrite of symbolic links.
11453 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
11454 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
11455 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
11456 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
11457 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
11458 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
11459 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
11460 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
11461 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
11462 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
11463 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
11464 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
11465 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
11466 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
11470 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
11471 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
11472 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
11474 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
11475 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
11476 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
11477 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
11478 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
11479 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
11480 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
11481 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
11482 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
11484 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
11485 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
11486 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
11487 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
11489 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
11490 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
11491 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11492 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
11493 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11494 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
11495 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11496 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
11497 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
11498 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
11499 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11502 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
11503 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
11504 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
11505 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
11506 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
11507 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
11508 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
11509 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
11510 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
11511 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
11512 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
11513 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
11514 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
11515 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
11516 or redefinition within an acsc string.
11517 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
11518 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
11519 regression testing.
11520 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
11521 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
11524 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
11525 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
11526 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
11527 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
11528 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
11529 match SVr4 documentation.
11530 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
11531 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
11532 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
11535 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
11536 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
11537 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
11538 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
11539 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
11540 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
11541 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
11542 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
11545 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
11546 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
11547 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
11549 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
11550 --enable/--with values.
11551 + add configure option --enable-big-core
11552 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
11553 + check for C++ builtin.h header
11554 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
11555 parameter from the expression.
11556 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
11557 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
11559 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
11560 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
11561 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
11562 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
11563 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
11564 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
11567 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
11568 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
11569 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
11570 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
11571 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
11574 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
11575 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
11576 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
11577 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
11578 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
11579 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
11580 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
11581 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
11582 (reported by Ward Horner).
11583 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
11584 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
11587 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
11588 even if "make all" is not done first.
11589 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
11590 expanded functions with ATAC.
11591 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
11592 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
11596 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
11598 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
11600 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
11603 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
11604 addressing request by Ward Horner.
11605 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
11606 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
11607 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
11608 a pointer-increment.
11609 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
11613 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
11614 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
11616 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
11617 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
11618 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
11619 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
11620 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
11621 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
11622 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
11623 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
11625 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
11626 (reported by Ward Horner)
11627 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
11628 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
11629 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
11630 (reported by Gary Johnson).
11631 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
11632 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
11633 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
11634 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
11635 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
11636 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
11637 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
11638 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
11642 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
11643 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
11644 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
11645 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
11646 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
11647 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11648 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
11649 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
11650 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
11651 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
11654 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
11656 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
11657 the returned buffer.
11658 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
11659 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
11660 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
11661 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
11663 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
11664 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
11667 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
11668 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
11669 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
11670 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
11672 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
11673 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
11676 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
11677 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
11679 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
11681 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
11682 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
11683 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
11684 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
11686 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
11687 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
11688 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
11689 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
11692 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
11693 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
11694 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
11695 that machine - T.Dickey.
11696 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
11697 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
11698 linking against static libraries.
11699 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
11701 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
11702 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
11703 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
11704 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
11706 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
11707 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
11708 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
11709 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
11710 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
11713 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
11714 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
11715 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
11717 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
11718 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
11719 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
11720 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
11721 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
11722 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
11725 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
11727 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
11728 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
11729 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
11730 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
11731 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
11732 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
11733 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
11734 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
11735 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
11736 insert/delete line method.
11737 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
11738 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
11739 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
11740 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
11742 961229 (internal alpha)
11743 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
11744 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
11745 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
11746 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
11747 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
11748 there is data on stdin.
11749 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
11750 descriptors, needed for GPM.
11751 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
11752 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
11753 prevented patch from working properly -TD
11754 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
11755 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
11756 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
11757 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
11760 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
11761 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
11763 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
11766 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
11767 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
11768 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
11769 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
11771 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
11772 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
11773 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
11774 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
11775 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
11776 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
11778 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
11779 i.e., set current directory before linking.
11780 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
11781 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
11782 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
11783 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
11784 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
11785 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
11786 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
11787 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
11790 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
11791 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
11792 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
11793 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
11794 Solaris curses, which does this.
11797 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
11798 work with wider range of screen sizes.
11799 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
11800 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
11801 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
11803 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
11804 resize between endwin/refresh.
11805 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
11806 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
11807 terminal modes in 960907.
11808 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
11809 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
11811 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
11812 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
11813 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
11814 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
11815 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
11816 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
11817 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
11818 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
11819 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
11821 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
11822 (requested by Florian La Roche).
11823 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
11824 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
11825 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
11826 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
11827 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11830 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
11833 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
11834 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
11835 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
11836 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
11837 data used in ncurses library.
11838 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
11839 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
11840 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11841 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
11842 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
11843 beta may not be interchangeable).
11844 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
11846 961130 1.9.9g release
11847 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
11851 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
11852 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
11853 to avoid warning messages.
11854 + the panel overlap detection was broken
11855 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
11857 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
11861 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11862 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
11863 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
11864 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
11865 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
11868 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
11869 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
11870 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
11874 + change ABI to 3.4
11875 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
11877 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
11879 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
11881 > patch #324 (ESR):
11882 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
11883 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
11884 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
11885 + add entry for color_xterm
11888 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
11889 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
11890 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
11891 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
11892 CANCELLED_STRING values.
11893 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
11894 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
11895 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
11896 delays when in autoplay mode.
11897 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
11898 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
11899 > patch #322 (ESR):
11900 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
11903 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
11904 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
11905 a spurious clear-screen.
11906 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
11907 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
11909 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
11910 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
11911 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
11912 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
11915 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
11916 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
11917 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
11918 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
11919 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
11920 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
11922 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
11923 distribution, as stated)
11924 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
11925 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
11926 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
11927 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
11928 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
11929 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
11930 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
11932 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
11933 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
11937 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
11938 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
11939 file (lib_screen.c).
11940 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
11941 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
11942 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
11943 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
11944 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
11945 rendered as octal constants.
11946 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
11947 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
11948 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
11949 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
11950 in the top-level command-parser.
11951 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
11952 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
11954 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
11955 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
11956 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
11959 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
11960 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
11961 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
11962 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
11963 (reported by Tim Mooney).
11964 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
11966 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
11970 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
11971 that are available.
11972 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
11973 the pointer was -1.
11976 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
11977 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
11978 lower-right corner.
11979 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
11980 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
11981 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
11982 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
11983 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
11984 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
11985 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
11986 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
11987 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
11988 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
11990 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
11991 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
11992 > patch #321 (ESR):
11993 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
11994 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
11995 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
11996 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
11999 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
12000 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
12001 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
12002 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
12003 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
12005 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
12006 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
12007 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
12008 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
12009 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
12010 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
12011 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
12012 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
12013 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
12014 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
12015 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
12016 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
12017 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
12019 + change ABI to 3.3
12020 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
12021 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
12022 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
12024 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
12025 Michael Elkins) - untested
12027 + correction to #317.
12029 + re-add _nc_hash_map
12030 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
12031 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
12032 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
12034 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
12036 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
12038 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
12040 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
12041 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12042 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
12043 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
12044 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
12045 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
12048 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
12050 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
12051 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
12052 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
12053 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
12054 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
12056 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
12059 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
12060 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12061 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
12062 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12063 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
12064 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
12067 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
12068 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
12069 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
12070 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
12071 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
12072 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
12073 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
12074 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
12075 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
12076 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
12077 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
12078 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
12079 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
12080 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
12081 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
12085 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12086 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
12087 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
12088 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
12090 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
12091 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
12092 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
12095 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
12096 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
12097 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
12100 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
12101 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12102 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
12103 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12106 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
12107 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
12108 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
12109 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
12110 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
12112 + add dtterm description
12113 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
12116 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
12117 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
12118 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
12119 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
12120 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
12123 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
12125 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
12127 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
12131 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
12132 (reported by William P Setzer)
12133 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
12134 (reported by Tim Mooney).
12136 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
12137 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
12138 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
12141 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
12143 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
12147 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
12148 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
12150 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
12151 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
12152 + add more symbols to infocmp.
12155 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
12156 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
12157 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
12159 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
12160 null), and tests that use it.
12161 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
12162 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
12163 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
12165 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
12167 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
12168 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
12169 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
12172 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
12173 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
12174 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
12175 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
12176 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
12177 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
12179 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
12180 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
12182 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
12183 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
12184 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
12185 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
12186 rather than constant (report by mib).
12187 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
12189 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
12190 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
12193 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
12194 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
12195 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
12197 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
12198 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
12199 Philippe De Muyter).
12202 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
12203 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
12205 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
12206 (reported by Zeyd).
12207 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
12208 (reported by David MacKenzie).
12209 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
12210 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
12211 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
12212 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
12213 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
12214 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
12215 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
12218 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
12219 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
12220 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
12222 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
12225 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
12226 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
12227 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
12228 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
12229 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
12230 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
12231 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
12232 than function keys in 'g' test.
12233 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
12234 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
12235 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
12236 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
12238 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
12240 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
12241 msgwin needed scrollok set.
12242 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
12243 between PutRange and InsStr
12244 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
12245 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
12247 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
12250 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
12251 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
12252 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
12254 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
12255 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
12256 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
12257 _yoffset to WINDOW).
12258 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
12259 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
12260 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
12261 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
12262 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
12263 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
12264 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
12265 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
12266 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
12269 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
12270 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
12271 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
12272 first entry in a list).
12273 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
12274 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
12277 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
12278 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
12279 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
12280 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
12281 with a shared-library configuration.
12282 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
12283 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
12284 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
12285 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
12286 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
12287 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
12288 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
12290 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
12291 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
12292 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
12293 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
12294 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
12296 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
12297 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
12298 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
12299 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12301 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
12302 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
12303 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
12305 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
12308 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
12309 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
12310 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
12311 + added rules for lintlib, lint
12312 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
12313 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
12314 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
12315 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
12316 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
12317 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
12318 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
12319 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
12320 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
12321 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
12324 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
12325 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
12326 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
12327 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
12328 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
12329 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
12331 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
12332 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
12333 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
12334 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
12336 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12337 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
12340 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
12341 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
12342 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
12343 <lav@yars.free.net>).
12344 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
12345 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
12346 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
12347 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
12349 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
12350 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
12351 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
12353 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
12354 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
12355 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
12356 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
12359 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
12363 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
12364 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
12365 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
12366 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
12367 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
12368 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
12369 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
12370 + added TRACE_IEVENT
12371 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
12373 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
12374 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
12375 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
12376 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
12377 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
12378 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
12379 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
12380 Alexander Lukyanov).
12381 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
12382 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
12383 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
12384 is not part of X/Open Curses).
12385 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
12386 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
12389 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
12390 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
12391 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
12392 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
12393 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
12394 "#include" if needed.
12397 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
12398 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
12401 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
12402 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
12403 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
12407 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
12408 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
12409 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
12410 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
12411 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
12412 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
12413 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
12414 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
12416 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
12418 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
12420 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
12421 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
12422 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
12423 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
12428 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
12429 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
12430 K&R-style substitution)
12431 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
12432 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
12433 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
12434 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
12435 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
12436 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
12437 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
12438 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
12439 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
12441 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
12442 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
12443 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
12445 + added trace support for TTY flags
12446 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
12447 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
12450 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
12451 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
12452 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
12453 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
12454 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
12456 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
12457 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
12459 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
12461 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
12462 copy-changed-lines behavior.
12463 * added and documented wresize() function.
12464 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
12465 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
12466 emitted before the first check.
12467 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
12468 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
12469 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
12470 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
12471 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
12472 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
12474 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
12475 * support for ESCDELAY.
12476 * small fixes for menu/form code.
12477 * the test directory has its own configure.
12478 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
12479 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
12480 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
12483 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
12485 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
12486 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
12487 * support infocmp -RBSD.
12488 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
12489 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
12490 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
12491 catastrophies or acts of God.
12492 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
12494 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
12495 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
12498 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
12500 * corrected return values of setupterm()
12501 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
12502 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
12503 one `use' capability.
12504 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
12505 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
12506 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
12507 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
12508 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
12509 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
12510 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
12511 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
12512 * added -h option to toe(1).
12513 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
12514 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
12515 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
12516 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
12518 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
12520 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
12521 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
12523 * mouse support for xterm.
12524 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
12525 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
12526 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
12527 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
12528 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
12529 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
12530 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
12531 * infocmp -T option added.
12532 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
12534 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
12536 * menus library is now included with documentation.
12537 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
12538 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
12539 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
12540 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
12541 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
12542 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
12543 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
12544 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
12546 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
12548 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
12549 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
12550 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
12551 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
12553 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
12555 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
12556 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
12557 * added tracemunch to the test tools
12558 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
12560 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
12562 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
12563 profile and shared object models.
12565 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
12567 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
12568 * panels support added
12569 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
12570 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
12572 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
12574 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
12575 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
12576 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
12577 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
12579 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
12580 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
12581 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
12582 are consistent (they weren't).
12583 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
12584 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
12585 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
12586 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
12587 warnings from gcc).
12588 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
12589 * more spelling fixes
12590 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
12591 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
12592 core in init_acs()).
12593 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
12596 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
12598 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
12599 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
12600 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
12602 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
12603 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
12604 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
12605 resolution of traces.
12606 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
12607 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
12608 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
12609 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
12610 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
12611 is much less flaky.
12612 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
12613 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
12614 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
12615 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
12617 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
12618 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
12619 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
12620 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
12621 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
12622 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
12623 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
12624 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
12625 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
12626 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
12627 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
12628 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
12629 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
12630 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
12631 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
12632 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
12634 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
12635 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
12636 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
12637 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
12638 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
12639 the correct alternate character set.
12640 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
12641 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
12642 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
12643 a terminal is undefined.
12644 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
12645 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
12646 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
12647 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
12648 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
12649 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
12651 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
12652 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
12653 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
12654 if other attributes are turned off.
12655 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
12656 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
12657 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
12659 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
12660 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
12661 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
12664 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
12665 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
12666 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
12667 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
12669 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
12670 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
12672 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
12674 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
12675 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
12676 break operation with any emulators.
12677 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
12678 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
12679 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
12680 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
12681 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
12682 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
12683 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
12684 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
12686 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
12687 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
12689 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
12690 unpredictable results.
12691 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
12693 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
12694 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
12695 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
12696 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
12697 take note of the terminfo directory.
12698 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
12699 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
12702 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
12703 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
12704 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
12705 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
12706 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
12707 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
12708 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
12709 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
12710 performs more testing.
12711 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
12712 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
12714 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
12715 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
12717 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
12718 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
12719 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
12721 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
12723 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
12724 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
12725 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
12726 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
12727 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
12728 will probably continue to work ok.
12730 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
12731 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
12732 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
12733 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
12734 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
12736 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
12737 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
12738 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
12740 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
12741 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
12742 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
12743 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
12744 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
12745 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
12746 changed accordingly.
12747 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
12748 bottom-right corner.
12749 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
12750 pads I'd love a copy.
12751 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
12752 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
12753 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
12754 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
12755 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
12756 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
12757 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
12759 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
12760 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
12761 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
12763 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
12764 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
12765 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
12766 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
12767 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
12768 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
12769 * See src/README for porting notes.
12770 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
12771 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
12772 rows instead of lines, etc.)
12773 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
12774 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
12775 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
12776 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
12777 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
12778 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
12779 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
12781 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
12782 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
12783 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
12784 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
12785 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
12786 fact was exposed by hanoi.
12787 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
12788 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
12789 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
12790 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
12791 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
12792 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
12794 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
12796 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
12797 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
12798 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
12799 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
12800 Config.* files through an awk script.
12801 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
12802 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
12803 * a few minor cleanups.
12804 * added more prototypes in curses.h
12806 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
12808 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
12809 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
12810 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
12811 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
12812 * a couple of bug fixes.
12813 * a few code cleanups.
12815 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
12817 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
12818 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
12819 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
12820 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
12821 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
12822 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
12823 * Cleaner Makefile.
12824 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
12825 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
12827 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
12828 (doesn't work on Linux)
12829 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
12830 screen before working.
12831 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
12832 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
12834 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
12835 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
12836 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
12837 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
12838 * several minor bug fixes.
12840 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
12842 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
12843 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
12844 * changes related to Config
12846 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
12848 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
12849 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
12850 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
12851 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
12852 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
12853 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
12854 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
12855 * added halfdelay()
12856 * fixed problems with asc_init()
12857 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
12858 * cleaned up vidputs()
12859 * general cleanup of the code
12860 * more attention to portability to other systems
12861 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
12862 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
12864 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
12865 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
12867 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
12868 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
12869 the rationale drop me a line.
12871 Included are several test programs in test/.
12872 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
12873 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
12875 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
12877 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
12878 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
12879 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
12880 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
12881 * keyname() is added.
12882 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
12883 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
12884 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
12885 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
12886 * included fixes from 0.6.1
12887 * added a few more missing functions.
12888 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
12889 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
12892 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
12894 1) Included the missing data/console.
12896 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
12898 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
12900 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
12901 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
12902 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
12904 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
12905 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
12906 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
12907 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
12908 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
12909 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
12910 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
12911 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
12912 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
12913 * added notimeout().
12914 * added timeout() define in curses.h
12915 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
12917 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
12918 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
12919 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
12920 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
12921 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
12922 * added slk_* support.
12923 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
12924 * added PANEL library.
12925 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
12926 * terminfo.h is really term.h
12928 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
12929 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
12930 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
12931 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
12932 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
12933 another key is pressed.
12934 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
12935 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
12936 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
12938 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
12939 * fixed bug in wvline().
12940 * added curs_set().
12941 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
12942 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
12944 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
12945 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
12946 * Addition of function prototypes.
12947 * Addition of several missing functions.
12948 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
12949 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
12950 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
12951 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
12952 * New scrolling code.
12953 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
12955 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
12956 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
12957 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
12958 * more fixes for updates.
12959 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
12960 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
12961 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
12962 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
12964 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
12965 * support for color.
12966 * support for PC graphic characters.
12967 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
12968 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
12970 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
12971 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
12972 * ANSIfication of some functions.
12973 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
12974 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.