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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
50 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
51 the predefined include directories.
52 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
53 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
54 where older versions would produce an error.
57 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
58 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
59 terminfo to termcap strings
60 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
61 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
62 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
63 directory was already added.
64 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
65 directories (which will be ignored).
68 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
69 + discard motion events
70 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
71 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
72 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
73 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
76 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
77 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
78 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
79 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
80 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
81 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
82 extended-colors configuration.
83 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
84 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
85 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
88 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
90 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
91 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
92 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
94 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
95 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
96 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
99 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
100 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
104 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
105 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
106 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
107 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
108 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
109 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
110 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
111 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
112 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
116 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
117 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
118 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
119 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
122 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
124 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
125 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
126 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
129 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
130 making those separately distributable.
131 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
132 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
136 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
139 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
140 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
141 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
142 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
146 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
147 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
148 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
149 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
152 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
153 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
154 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
155 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
157 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
158 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
160 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
164 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
165 that line-drawing works.
166 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
167 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
168 capabilities can run.
169 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
173 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
174 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
175 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
176 before older in the list.
177 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
178 + minor documentation cleanup.
179 + update config.guess, config.sub from
180 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
181 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
184 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
185 most common case of SGR 0.
186 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
187 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
188 events remain, it will return ERR.
191 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
192 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
193 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
194 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
195 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
198 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
199 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
200 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
203 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
204 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
205 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
206 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
207 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
208 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
211 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
212 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
213 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
214 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
215 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
217 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
219 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
221 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
222 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
223 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
225 + update config.guess, config.sub from
226 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
229 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
230 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
232 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
233 writing terminfo entries.
234 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
235 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
236 by Nicholas Marriott).
239 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
241 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
242 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
246 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
247 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
248 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
249 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
250 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
254 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
255 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
256 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
257 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
260 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
261 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
262 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
263 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
264 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
265 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
266 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
269 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
270 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
271 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
272 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
273 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
274 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
275 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
276 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
277 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
278 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
279 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
282 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
283 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
284 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
285 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
288 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
289 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
292 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
293 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
294 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
298 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
299 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
300 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
301 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
302 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
304 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
305 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
308 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
309 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
310 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
311 terminal-driver. That is used in mingw port, and (being somewhat
312 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
313 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
315 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
316 library (some work remains for forms library).
319 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
320 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
321 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
322 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
324 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
325 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
326 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
327 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
330 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
331 by sharing linedata.h functions):
335 test/test_add_wchstr.c
336 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
337 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
338 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
341 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
343 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
344 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
345 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
346 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
350 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
351 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
352 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
353 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
356 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
357 amd64 (Debian #542031).
358 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
361 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
364 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
365 broken in 20090509 merging.
366 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
367 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
368 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
369 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
370 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
371 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
372 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
373 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
375 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
378 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
379 implementation details of hash function.
382 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
383 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
384 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
387 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
388 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
389 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
391 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
392 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
395 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
396 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
400 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
403 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
405 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
406 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
407 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
408 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
409 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
411 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
412 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
413 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
416 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
417 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
418 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
421 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
422 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
424 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
427 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
428 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
430 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
431 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
435 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
436 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
437 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
440 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
443 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
446 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
447 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
448 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
449 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
452 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
455 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
456 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
457 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
458 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
462 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
465 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
466 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
469 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
472 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
476 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
479 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
480 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
481 part of the form library.
484 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
485 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
488 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
489 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
490 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
491 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
492 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
493 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
494 a temporary variable.
495 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
496 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
497 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
498 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
499 with Charles Wilson).
500 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
501 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
502 > patches by Charles Wilson:
503 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
504 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
505 digits, after the final '.').
506 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
507 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
508 using that in the libtool link-commands.
509 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
510 from 2009031 changes.
511 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
512 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
513 termlib) is to be linked.
514 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
515 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
518 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
519 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
520 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
521 (report by Charles Wilson).
522 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
523 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
524 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
525 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
526 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
529 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
530 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
531 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
532 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
533 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
535 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
536 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
537 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
538 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
539 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
540 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
541 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
542 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
545 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
546 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
547 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
550 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
553 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
555 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
556 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
557 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
558 some internals work is needed to complete these).
559 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
562 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
563 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
564 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
565 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
566 + make it work with $DESTDIR
567 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
570 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
571 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
573 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
574 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
575 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
578 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
579 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
580 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
581 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
582 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
583 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
584 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
585 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
586 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
589 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
590 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
592 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
594 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
595 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
598 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
600 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
601 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
602 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
603 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
606 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
607 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
608 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
610 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
611 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
614 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
615 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
616 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
617 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
618 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
619 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
621 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
622 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
624 + update config.guess, config.sub from
625 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
628 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
629 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
630 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
633 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
634 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
635 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
637 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
638 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
641 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
643 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
644 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
645 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
647 + fixes from NetBSD port at
648 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
649 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
650 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
651 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
652 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
654 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
655 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
658 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
659 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
660 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
661 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
662 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
663 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
664 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
665 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
666 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
667 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
668 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
671 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
672 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
673 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
674 passing color or video attributes.
675 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
676 display meta-characters.
677 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
678 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
679 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
680 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
684 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
685 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
686 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
688 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
691 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
693 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
694 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
696 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
699 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
700 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
701 does not work well on that platform).
702 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
705 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
706 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
707 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
709 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
710 --disable-database is used.
711 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
712 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
713 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
714 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
718 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
719 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
720 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
721 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
722 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
723 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
724 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
728 + update html documentation.
729 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
730 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
731 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
732 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
733 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
734 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
735 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
736 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
739 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
740 works for C/C++ parts).
741 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
742 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
745 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
746 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
747 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
748 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
749 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
750 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
751 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
752 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
753 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
755 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
756 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
757 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
758 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
759 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
760 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
763 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
764 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
767 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
768 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
769 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
770 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
771 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
772 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
775 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
776 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
779 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
783 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
784 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
785 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
786 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
788 + update test/configure script.
789 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
790 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
791 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
792 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
793 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
796 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
797 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
799 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
801 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
802 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
803 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
804 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
805 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
806 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
807 + update config.guess, config.sub from
808 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
809 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
812 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
813 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
814 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
815 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
816 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
817 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
818 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
819 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
820 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
821 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
822 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
826 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
827 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
828 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
829 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
830 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
832 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
833 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
834 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
835 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
836 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
839 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
840 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
841 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
842 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
843 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
844 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
845 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
848 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
852 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
855 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
858 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
859 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
861 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
862 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
863 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
867 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
868 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
870 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
871 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
872 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
873 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
876 + regenerated html documentation.
877 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
878 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
879 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
880 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
881 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
884 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
885 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
886 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
890 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
891 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
892 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
893 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
894 window which is being used in a wgetch().
895 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
898 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
899 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
901 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
902 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
903 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
904 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
905 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
906 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
907 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
908 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
909 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
912 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
913 screen which must be updated.
914 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
915 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
916 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
920 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
921 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
923 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
925 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
926 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
929 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
930 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
931 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
933 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
937 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
938 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
939 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
942 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
943 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
944 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
945 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
948 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
949 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
951 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
953 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
956 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
957 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
958 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
959 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
960 python-dev2 mailing list).
963 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
964 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
965 are not associated with a particular screen.
966 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
967 stdscr to the callback function.
968 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
969 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
970 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
971 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
972 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
973 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
974 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
978 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
979 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
980 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
981 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
983 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
984 wide-characters with extended-colors.
985 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
986 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
987 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
990 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
991 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
992 that the 'F' accepts.
993 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
994 are working concurrently.
995 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
999 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
1000 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
1001 _nc_free_and_exit().
1004 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
1005 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
1008 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
1009 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
1012 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
1013 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
1014 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
1015 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
1018 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
1019 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
1020 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
1021 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
1022 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
1023 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
1025 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
1026 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
1030 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
1031 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
1032 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
1035 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
1036 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
1037 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
1040 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
1041 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
1042 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
1046 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
1047 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
1048 "link_test" builds properly.
1049 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
1050 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
1051 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
1052 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
1053 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
1054 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
1055 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
1057 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
1060 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1064 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
1065 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
1068 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
1070 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
1071 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
1072 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
1075 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
1076 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
1077 pierre4d2 comments).
1078 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
1079 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
1080 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
1081 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
1085 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
1086 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
1087 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
1088 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
1089 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
1091 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
1092 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
1093 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
1097 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
1098 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
1101 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1103 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
1105 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
1109 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
1110 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
1112 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
1113 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
1114 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
1115 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
1116 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
1118 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
1119 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
1122 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
1123 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
1124 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
1125 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1128 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
1129 calls within the ncurses library.
1130 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
1132 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
1133 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
1134 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
1136 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
1137 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
1138 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
1139 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
1140 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
1143 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
1144 for threaded library (incomplete).
1145 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
1146 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
1150 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
1151 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
1152 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
1153 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
1154 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
1155 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
1156 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
1157 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1158 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1161 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
1163 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
1164 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1167 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
1168 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
1169 "\0" followed by a digit.
1170 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
1171 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
1172 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
1173 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
1174 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
1175 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
1176 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
1177 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
1178 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
1181 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
1182 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
1183 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
1184 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
1185 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1187 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
1188 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
1189 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1193 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
1194 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
1195 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
1196 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
1197 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
1198 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
1199 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
1200 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
1201 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
1204 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
1205 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
1206 + add test/test_getstr.c
1207 + add test/test_inwstr.c
1208 + add test/test_instr.c
1211 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
1212 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
1213 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
1217 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
1218 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
1219 ".log" to the name and try again.
1220 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
1221 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
1222 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
1223 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
1224 --disable-echo option is used.
1225 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
1226 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
1227 + update config.guess, config.sub
1230 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
1231 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
1232 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
1236 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
1237 problems with multi-column characters.
1238 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
1239 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1240 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
1241 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
1242 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
1243 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
1244 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
1247 + add test/demo_panels.c
1248 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
1251 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
1253 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
1254 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
1257 + add test/key_name.c
1258 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
1259 + update test/configure
1260 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
1261 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
1262 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
1266 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
1267 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
1268 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
1269 illustrate how to use mvcur().
1270 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
1271 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
1272 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1273 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1274 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
1277 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
1278 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
1279 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
1280 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
1281 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
1282 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
1285 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
1286 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
1288 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
1289 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
1290 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
1291 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
1294 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
1295 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
1296 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
1297 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
1299 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
1301 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
1302 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
1303 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
1304 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
1305 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
1308 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
1309 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
1311 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
1312 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
1313 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
1314 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
1315 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
1316 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
1317 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
1318 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
1319 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
1320 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
1321 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
1324 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
1325 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
1326 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
1327 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
1328 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
1329 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
1330 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1333 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1334 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1335 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1336 Ada95 tree is not built.
1339 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1340 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1341 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1342 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1343 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1344 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1346 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1347 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1348 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1349 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1350 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1351 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1352 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1353 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1354 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1355 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1356 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1357 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1358 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1359 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1360 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1361 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1362 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1363 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1364 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1366 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1367 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1368 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1369 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1370 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1371 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1372 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1373 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1374 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1377 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1378 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1379 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1380 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1381 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1382 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1383 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1384 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1388 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1389 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1390 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1391 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1392 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1396 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1397 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1398 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1399 in the configure script to an error.
1400 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1401 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1402 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1403 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1404 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1406 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1407 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1410 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1411 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1414 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1415 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1417 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1418 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1419 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1420 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1421 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1422 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1423 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1424 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1427 + regenerated html documentation.
1428 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1429 opaque in selected configurations.
1430 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1431 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1432 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1433 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1434 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1435 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1436 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1437 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1438 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1439 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1440 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1442 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1443 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1446 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1447 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1448 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1449 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1450 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1451 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1452 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1453 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1454 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1455 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1456 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1457 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1460 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1462 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1463 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1464 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1466 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1467 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1468 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1469 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1470 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1471 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1472 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1473 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1475 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1476 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1479 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1480 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1482 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1484 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1485 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1486 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1489 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1490 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1491 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1492 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1494 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1495 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1496 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1497 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1498 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1499 no longer relies on it.
1500 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1501 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1502 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1505 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1506 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1509 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1510 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1511 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1512 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1513 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1514 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1515 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1516 its license consistent with ncurses.
1517 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1518 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1519 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1522 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1523 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1524 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1525 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1529 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1530 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1531 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1533 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1534 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1537 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1538 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1539 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1542 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1543 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1544 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1545 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1546 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1547 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1548 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1549 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1550 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1551 to manpages as needed.
1552 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1553 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1556 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1557 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1558 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1559 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1560 + update config.guess, config.sub
1562 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1565 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1566 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1567 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1568 correct nor portable.
1569 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1571 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1572 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1576 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1577 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1578 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1579 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1580 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1581 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1584 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1585 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1586 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1587 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1589 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1590 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1591 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1592 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1593 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1594 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1595 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1596 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1599 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1600 database configuration.
1601 + updates for test/configure script.
1602 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1603 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1605 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1606 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1607 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1608 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1610 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1611 _nc_printf_string().
1612 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1613 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1616 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1617 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1619 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1620 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1624 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1625 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1628 + add test/echochar.c
1629 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1630 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1633 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1634 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1635 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1636 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1639 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1640 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1641 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1643 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1644 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1645 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1646 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1647 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1648 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1649 Ralf S Engelschall).
1650 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1651 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1652 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1653 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1656 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1657 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1658 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1661 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1662 and status line (Alain Bench).
1663 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1664 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1665 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1666 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1669 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1670 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1671 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1672 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1673 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1676 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1677 + updated html documentation.
1678 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1679 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1682 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1683 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1684 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1685 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1686 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1687 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1688 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1689 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1690 by report by Christopher Parker).
1694 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1695 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1696 since it does not really do this -TD
1699 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1700 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1701 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1702 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1705 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1706 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1707 embedded into a termcap description.
1708 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1709 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1710 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1711 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1713 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1716 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1718 + add test/foldkeys.c
1721 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1722 source output (Debian #378783).
1723 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1724 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1725 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1726 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1727 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1728 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1731 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1732 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1733 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1736 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1737 or as a text file if those are not available.
1738 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1739 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1740 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1743 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1744 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1745 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1746 + update config.guess, config.sub
1749 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1750 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1751 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1753 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1754 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1756 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1757 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1758 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1759 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1760 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1761 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1763 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1764 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1765 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1766 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1769 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1770 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1774 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1775 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1777 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1778 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1779 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1780 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1781 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1782 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1785 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1786 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1787 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1788 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1789 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1790 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1791 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1792 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1793 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1794 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1797 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1798 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1799 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1800 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1802 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1805 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1806 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1807 + minor copyright fixes.
1808 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1811 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1812 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1813 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1814 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1815 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1816 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1817 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1818 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1820 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1821 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1822 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1823 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1825 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1828 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1829 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1831 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1832 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1833 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1834 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1836 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1837 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1838 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1839 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1842 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1843 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1844 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1845 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1846 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1847 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1848 + update config.guess, config.sub
1849 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1850 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1851 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1852 function is broken in that implementation.
1855 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1856 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1859 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1860 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1862 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1863 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1865 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1866 reported to implement this feature -TD
1869 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1870 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1873 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1874 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1875 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1876 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1877 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1878 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1879 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1880 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1883 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1884 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1886 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1887 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1890 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1891 (report by Alain Bench).
1892 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1893 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1894 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1895 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1897 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1898 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1899 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1903 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1904 and/or video attributes.
1905 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1906 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1909 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1912 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1913 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1914 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1915 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1916 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1917 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1918 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1919 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1920 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1923 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1924 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1925 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1928 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1929 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1930 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1931 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1932 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1933 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1934 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1935 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1936 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1937 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1940 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1941 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1942 rather than delayed.
1943 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1945 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1946 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1947 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1950 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1952 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1953 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1956 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1957 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1960 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1961 + suppress line-drawing
1962 + implement max_attributes
1964 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1965 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1969 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1970 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1972 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1974 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1975 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1976 etc., when allocating screens.
1979 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1980 this in test/filter.c
1981 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1985 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1986 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1987 + add extension nofilter().
1988 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1989 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1990 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1991 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1992 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1995 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1996 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1997 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1998 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1999 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
2000 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
2001 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
2002 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
2003 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
2005 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
2006 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
2007 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
2009 + update config.guess and config.sub
2012 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
2013 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
2014 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
2016 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
2017 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
2018 that was never built in that directory).
2019 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
2022 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
2024 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
2025 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
2029 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
2030 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
2031 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
2032 effect of the different functions.
2033 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
2037 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
2038 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
2040 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
2044 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
2045 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
2046 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
2048 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
2049 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
2053 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
2054 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
2055 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
2057 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
2058 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
2059 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
2062 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
2063 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
2064 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
2067 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
2068 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
2069 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
2071 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
2072 a derived window (Debian #316663).
2075 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
2076 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
2077 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
2078 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
2079 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
2080 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
2081 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
2084 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
2085 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
2086 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
2088 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
2089 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2090 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
2091 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
2092 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
2094 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2097 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
2100 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
2101 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
2105 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
2106 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2107 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
2108 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2109 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
2111 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2112 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2115 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
2116 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
2117 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
2118 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
2119 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
2120 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
2121 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
2122 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
2123 default if it is used.
2124 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
2125 --with-abi-version option was used.
2126 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
2127 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
2128 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
2131 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
2132 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
2133 handlers (Debian #326709).
2136 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
2137 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
2139 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
2142 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
2143 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
2144 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
2145 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
2147 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
2148 (report by Frank van Vugt).
2151 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
2152 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
2153 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
2154 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
2155 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
2156 + update llib-l* files.
2159 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
2160 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
2161 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
2162 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
2166 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
2167 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
2168 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
2169 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
2170 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
2171 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
2172 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
2173 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
2174 Konstantin Andreev).
2177 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
2178 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
2179 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
2180 several related cases -TD
2181 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
2182 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
2184 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
2185 resets line-drawing.
2188 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
2190 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
2191 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
2192 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
2193 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
2194 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
2195 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
2198 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
2199 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
2200 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
2202 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
2203 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
2206 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2207 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2208 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
2209 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
2210 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
2211 "make install.data" step.
2212 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
2213 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
2214 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
2215 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
2216 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
2217 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
2218 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
2219 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
2220 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
2221 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
2222 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
2223 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
2224 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
2225 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
2228 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2231 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
2232 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
2233 review of Debian package).
2234 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
2235 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
2236 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
2237 install using libtool 1.5.0):
2238 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
2240 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
2241 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
2242 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
2243 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
2244 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2247 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
2248 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
2249 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
2252 + fixes for termcap support:
2253 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
2254 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
2255 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
2256 extended names data will be freed consistently.
2257 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
2259 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
2260 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
2261 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
2262 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
2265 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
2266 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
2267 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
2268 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
2270 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
2274 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
2276 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
2277 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
2280 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
2281 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
2282 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
2283 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
2284 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2285 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
2286 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
2290 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
2291 shift-, control-cursor keys.
2292 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
2293 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
2294 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
2295 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
2296 it will automatically be treated as a key.
2297 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
2298 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
2299 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
2303 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
2304 + add configure option --enable-largefile
2305 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
2309 + update config.guess, config.sub
2310 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
2311 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
2312 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
2313 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
2314 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
2316 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
2317 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
2318 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
2321 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
2322 position the mouse to a particular item.
2323 + implement test/demo_menus.c
2324 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
2325 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
2326 --enable-const option.
2329 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
2330 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
2331 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
2332 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2333 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2334 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2335 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2336 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2337 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2338 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2339 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2342 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2344 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2345 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2348 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2349 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2350 anyone used that configuration.
2351 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2353 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2354 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2357 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2358 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2359 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2361 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2362 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2363 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2366 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2367 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2368 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2372 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2373 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2374 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2375 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2376 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2379 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2381 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2383 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2384 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2385 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2388 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2390 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2391 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2392 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2393 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2394 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2395 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2396 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2397 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2398 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2399 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2400 right (cf: 20040228).
2401 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2402 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2405 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2406 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2407 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2408 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2409 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2410 added (Debian #295083).
2411 + add traces to panel library.
2414 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2415 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2416 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2417 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2418 mouse events in this case.
2419 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2420 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2423 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2424 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2425 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2426 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2427 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2428 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2429 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2430 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2433 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2434 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2435 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2436 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2437 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2438 already been started.
2439 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2440 pair_content() and color_content().
2441 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2442 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2443 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2444 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2445 color pairs which are allowed.
2446 + add a top-level tags rule.
2449 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2450 first calling initscr().
2451 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2452 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2453 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2454 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2455 that are curses-specific.
2456 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2457 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2458 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2459 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2463 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2464 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2465 for leading whitespace.
2466 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2467 where a following line begins in column 1.
2468 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2469 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2472 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2475 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2476 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2477 + update config.guess, config.sub
2478 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2479 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2480 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2481 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2482 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2483 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2484 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2487 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2489 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2490 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2493 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2494 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2495 and attr_set functions.
2498 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2499 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2500 forms-demo to be one character short.
2501 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2502 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2503 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2504 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2507 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2508 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2509 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2510 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2512 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2513 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2516 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2517 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2518 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2519 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2520 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2521 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2522 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2524 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2525 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2527 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2528 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2531 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2532 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2533 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2534 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2535 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2536 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2537 wide-character configuration.
2540 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2541 or multicolumn characters.
2544 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2545 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2546 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2547 use_default_colors() be called first.
2550 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2551 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2552 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2553 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2554 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2555 must be wrapped to a new line.
2556 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2557 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2558 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2559 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2560 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2564 + minor fixes for traces.
2565 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2566 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2567 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2571 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2572 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2573 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2574 and shift-out which seem to work.
2575 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2576 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2579 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2580 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2581 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2582 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2586 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2587 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2588 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2589 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2592 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2593 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2594 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2595 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2596 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2597 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2598 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2599 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2600 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2601 is no longer experimental.
2602 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2603 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2606 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2609 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2610 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2611 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2612 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2613 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2614 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2615 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2616 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2619 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2620 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2621 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2622 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2623 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2624 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2625 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2626 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2629 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2630 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2631 > terminfo updates -TD
2632 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2633 with the common usage of bce/ech
2634 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2638 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2639 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2640 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2641 a help window as well.
2642 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2643 the -d option is set.
2644 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2647 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2649 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2650 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2654 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2655 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2656 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2657 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2658 patch by Hans de Goede)
2659 > terminfo updates -TD
2660 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2661 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2662 + add function-keys to decansi
2663 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2664 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2665 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2668 > terminfo updates -TD
2669 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2670 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2672 + review/update konsole entries
2673 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2674 + correct tsl string in kterm
2677 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2680 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2681 multibyte character.
2682 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2684 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2685 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2686 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2687 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2688 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2689 converting termcap to termcap format.
2690 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2691 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2692 > terminfo updates -TD
2693 + minor fixes for emu
2695 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2700 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2701 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2702 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2703 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2704 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2705 > terminfo updates -TD
2706 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2708 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2709 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2710 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2713 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2714 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2716 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2717 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2718 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2719 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2720 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2721 + update config.guess, config.sub
2722 > terminfo updates -TD
2724 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2725 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2726 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2731 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2732 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2733 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2736 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2737 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2738 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2740 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2744 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2745 field_buffer() results.
2746 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2749 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2751 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2752 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2753 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2754 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2755 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2758 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2759 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2760 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2764 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2765 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2767 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2770 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2771 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2772 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2773 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2774 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2775 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2776 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2777 information without an option.
2778 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2779 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2782 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2785 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2786 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2787 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2788 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2789 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2790 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2791 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2793 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2796 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2797 to an unsigned char.
2798 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2799 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2802 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2805 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2806 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2807 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2808 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2809 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2810 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2811 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2812 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2813 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2814 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2815 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2818 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2819 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2820 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2821 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2824 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2826 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2827 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2830 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2831 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2832 mode is shown in that test.
2833 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2834 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2835 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2838 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2840 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2841 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2842 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2843 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2845 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2846 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2847 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2848 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2851 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2852 (request by Mike Aubury).
2853 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2855 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2857 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2860 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2861 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2862 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2863 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2864 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2865 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2866 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2867 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2868 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2869 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2871 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2874 20040207 pre-release
2875 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2876 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2877 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2878 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2879 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2881 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2882 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2883 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2885 20040131 pre-release
2886 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2887 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2888 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2889 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2890 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2891 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2892 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2893 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2894 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2895 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2896 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2898 20040125 pre-release
2899 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2900 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2901 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2902 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2903 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2904 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2905 modifying the displayed value.
2907 20040124 pre-release
2908 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2909 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2910 that works better for cross-compiling.
2912 20040117 pre-release
2913 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2914 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2915 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2916 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2917 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2918 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2919 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2921 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2922 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2924 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2925 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2926 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2927 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2928 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2929 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2930 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2931 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2932 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2933 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2934 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2935 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2937 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2938 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2939 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2940 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2941 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2942 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2943 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2944 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2946 20040110 pre-release
2947 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2948 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2950 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2951 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2953 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2955 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2956 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2957 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2958 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2959 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2962 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2963 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2964 + add pecho_wchar().
2965 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2966 available) on older platforms.
2969 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2970 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2971 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2972 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2973 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2974 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2975 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2976 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2977 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2980 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2981 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2982 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2983 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2984 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2985 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2989 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2990 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2991 applications do not.
2992 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2993 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2994 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2995 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2996 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2997 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
3001 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
3002 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
3003 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
3004 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
3005 <inger@altlinux.org>).
3006 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
3007 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
3008 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
3009 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
3010 awkward for some cases.
3011 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
3012 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
3014 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
3015 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
3016 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
3017 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
3018 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
3022 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
3023 values (Philippe Blain).
3024 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
3025 restarting (Philippe Blain).
3026 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
3030 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
3031 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
3032 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
3033 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
3034 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
3035 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
3039 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
3040 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
3041 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
3043 + update config.guess, config.sub
3046 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
3047 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
3048 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
3049 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
3050 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
3051 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
3052 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
3054 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
3055 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
3056 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
3057 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
3058 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
3061 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3062 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
3063 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
3064 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
3065 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
3066 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
3067 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
3068 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
3070 + regenerated html documentation.
3071 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
3072 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
3073 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
3076 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
3077 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
3078 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
3079 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
3080 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
3081 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
3082 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
3083 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
3087 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
3088 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
3091 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
3092 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
3093 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
3094 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
3096 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
3097 (report by Philippe Blain).
3100 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
3101 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
3102 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
3103 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
3104 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
3105 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
3106 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3107 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
3108 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
3110 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
3112 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
3113 in the clr_bol logic.
3116 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3117 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3118 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
3119 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
3120 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
3121 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3122 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
3123 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
3124 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
3125 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
3126 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
3127 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
3130 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
3131 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
3132 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
3133 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
3136 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
3137 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
3138 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
3139 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
3140 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
3141 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
3142 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
3143 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
3144 --with-install-prefix is used.
3147 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3148 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
3149 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
3150 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
3153 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
3154 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
3155 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
3156 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
3157 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
3158 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
3159 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3160 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
3161 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
3164 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
3165 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
3166 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
3167 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
3168 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
3169 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
3170 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
3173 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
3175 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3176 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
3177 the size of the scroll-region.
3178 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
3181 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
3182 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
3183 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
3187 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
3188 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
3189 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
3190 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3191 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
3193 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
3194 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
3195 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
3196 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
3197 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
3198 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
3199 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
3200 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
3201 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
3202 usage and to prevent circular links.
3203 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
3204 (rxvt-color): new alias
3205 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
3206 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
3207 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
3208 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
3209 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
3210 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
3212 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
3216 + update config.guess, config.sub
3217 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
3218 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
3221 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
3222 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
3223 would not accept gcc warning options.
3224 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
3225 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
3226 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
3227 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
3228 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3229 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
3230 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
3232 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
3235 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
3236 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
3237 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
3238 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
3239 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
3240 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
3241 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
3242 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3245 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
3247 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
3248 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
3249 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
3250 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
3253 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
3255 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
3256 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
3257 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
3258 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3259 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
3260 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
3263 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
3264 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
3265 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
3266 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
3267 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
3268 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
3269 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
3270 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
3272 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
3273 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3274 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
3275 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3278 + regenerated html manpages.
3279 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
3280 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
3282 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
3283 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
3285 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
3286 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
3289 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
3290 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3291 + add tkterm entry -TD
3292 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
3293 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
3294 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
3295 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
3297 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
3298 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
3299 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
3301 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
3302 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
3303 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
3306 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
3307 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
3308 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
3309 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
3311 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
3312 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
3313 current test programs.
3314 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
3315 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
3316 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
3317 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
3319 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
3320 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
3321 mentioned in the terminfo.
3322 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
3323 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
3326 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
3327 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
3328 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
3329 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
3330 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
3331 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
3332 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
3333 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
3336 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
3337 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
3338 the editing position before making modifications.
3339 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
3340 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
3341 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
3344 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
3345 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
3346 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
3347 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
3349 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
3350 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
3351 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
3352 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
3353 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
3354 terminfo as is done in "screen".
3357 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
3358 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
3359 code, from recent rewrite.
3360 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
3362 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
3363 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
3366 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
3367 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
3368 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
3369 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
3372 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
3373 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
3375 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
3378 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
3380 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
3381 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
3383 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
3384 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
3385 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
3388 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
3389 a file when ^W is given.
3390 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
3394 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
3395 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
3396 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
3397 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
3398 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
3399 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
3400 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
3401 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
3405 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
3406 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
3407 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
3410 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
3411 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
3412 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
3413 baudrate was not known.
3414 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
3415 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3416 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3417 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3418 corresponding capability might be
3420 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3421 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3422 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3423 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3426 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3427 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3428 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3429 apparently typedef'd.
3430 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3431 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3434 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3435 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3436 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3437 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3438 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3439 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3440 cached for reallocating.
3443 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3444 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3445 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3447 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3448 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3449 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3450 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3451 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3452 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3453 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3454 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3457 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3458 emx-base to the latter -TD
3459 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3460 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3463 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3464 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3465 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3466 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3467 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3470 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3471 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3472 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3473 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3474 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3475 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3476 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3478 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3479 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3480 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3481 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3482 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3485 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3486 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3487 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3488 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3489 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3490 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3492 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3493 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3494 is indeed a "blank".
3495 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3496 sections as small as one line.
3497 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3499 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3500 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3501 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3504 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3505 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3508 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3509 (report by Philippe Blain).
3510 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3511 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3512 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3513 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3514 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3516 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3517 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3518 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3519 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3520 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3521 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3524 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3525 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3527 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3528 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3530 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3531 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3532 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3533 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3536 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3537 overridden from the environment.
3538 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3539 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3540 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3541 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3542 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3543 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3544 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3545 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3546 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3547 by Sam Varshavchik).
3548 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3549 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3550 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3551 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3553 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3554 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3555 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3556 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3557 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3560 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3561 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3562 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3563 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3564 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3565 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3566 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3567 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3568 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3569 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3570 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3571 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3572 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3573 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3574 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3575 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3576 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3577 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3578 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3579 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
3580 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
3581 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
3582 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
3585 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
3586 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
3587 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
3588 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
3589 winsch() internal function.
3590 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
3591 more than one spacing character.
3594 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
3595 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
3596 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
3597 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
3598 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
3599 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
3600 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
3601 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
3602 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
3603 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
3606 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
3607 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
3608 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
3609 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
3610 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
3611 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
3612 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
3615 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
3616 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
3617 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
3618 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
3620 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
3621 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
3622 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
3623 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
3624 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
3627 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
3628 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
3629 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
3630 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
3631 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
3632 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
3633 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
3634 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
3635 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
3636 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
3637 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
3638 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
3639 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
3640 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
3641 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3642 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3643 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3646 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3647 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3648 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3649 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3650 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3651 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3652 Frederic L W Meunier).
3654 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3655 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3656 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3657 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3658 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3659 the debug trace in that case.
3660 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3661 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3662 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3663 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3665 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3666 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3668 20021005 pre-release
3669 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3670 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3671 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3672 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3673 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3674 formats such as "%.*s".
3675 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3676 (report Floyd Davidson).
3677 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3679 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3680 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3681 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3683 20020928 pre-release
3684 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3685 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3686 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3688 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3689 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3690 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3691 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3692 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3693 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3694 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3695 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3696 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3697 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3698 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3699 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3700 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3701 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3702 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3703 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3704 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3705 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3706 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3708 20020921 pre-release
3709 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3710 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3711 result in core dump.
3712 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3713 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3714 delimiter rather than '@'.
3715 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3716 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3717 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3718 to the lines given for the destination window.
3720 20020914 pre-release
3721 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3722 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3723 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3724 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3725 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3726 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3727 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3728 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3729 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3730 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3731 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3732 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3734 20020907 pre-release
3735 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3736 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3737 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3738 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3739 html manpages on Debian.
3740 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3741 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3742 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3743 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3744 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3745 a variable from the stack.
3746 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3748 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3749 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3750 _idcok window fields.
3751 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3753 20020901 pre-release
3754 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3755 + update config.guess, config.sub
3756 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3757 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3759 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3760 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3761 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3762 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3763 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3764 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3765 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3766 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3767 use in resizeterm().
3768 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3769 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3770 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3771 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3772 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3773 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3774 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3775 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3776 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3777 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3778 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3782 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3783 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3784 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3785 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3786 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3787 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3790 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3791 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3792 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3793 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3794 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3795 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3796 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3797 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3798 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3800 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3801 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3805 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3806 when translating to termcap.
3807 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3808 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3809 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3811 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3813 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3814 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3816 + document TABSIZE variable.
3817 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3818 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3819 assume_default_colors().
3820 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3822 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3823 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3824 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3825 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3826 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3829 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3831 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3832 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3834 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3835 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3836 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3839 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3841 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3844 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3845 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3846 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3847 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3848 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3849 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3850 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3851 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3852 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3853 configure definitions.
3854 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3855 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3856 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3857 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3858 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3859 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3860 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3861 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3862 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3863 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3864 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3867 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3868 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3869 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3870 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3871 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3872 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3873 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3875 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3876 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3877 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3878 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3881 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3882 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3883 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3884 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3886 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3887 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3888 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3891 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3892 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3894 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3895 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3896 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3898 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3899 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3900 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3901 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3903 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3904 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3905 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3906 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3910 + add charset to generated html.
3911 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3912 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3913 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3914 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3915 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3916 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3920 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3921 key code in get_wch().
3922 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3923 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3924 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3925 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3926 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3927 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3930 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3931 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3933 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3934 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3935 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3936 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3939 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3940 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3941 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3942 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3943 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3944 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3945 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3946 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3947 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3948 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3951 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3955 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3956 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3957 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3958 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3959 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3960 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3961 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3964 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3965 character versions as well.
3966 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3968 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3970 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3971 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3972 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3973 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3974 if gettimeofday() is available.
3977 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
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