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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 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
50 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
51 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
52 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
53 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
55 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
56 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
57 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
61 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
62 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
65 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
67 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
69 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
73 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
74 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
76 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
77 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
78 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
79 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
80 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
82 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
83 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
86 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
87 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
88 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
89 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
92 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
93 calls within the ncurses library.
94 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
96 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
97 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
98 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
100 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
101 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
102 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
103 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
104 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
107 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
108 for threaded library (incomplete).
109 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
110 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
114 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
115 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
116 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
117 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
118 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
119 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
120 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
121 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
122 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
125 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
127 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
128 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
131 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
132 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
133 "\0" followed by a digit.
134 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
135 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
136 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
137 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
138 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
139 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
140 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
141 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
142 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
145 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
146 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
147 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
148 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
149 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
151 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
152 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
153 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
157 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
158 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
159 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
160 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
161 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
162 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
163 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
164 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
165 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
168 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
169 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
170 + add test/test_getstr.c
171 + add test/test_inwstr.c
172 + add test/test_instr.c
175 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
176 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
177 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
181 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
182 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
183 ".log" to the name and try again.
184 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
185 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
186 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
187 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
188 --disable-echo option is used.
189 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
190 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
191 + update config.guess, config.sub
194 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
195 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
196 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
200 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
201 problems with multi-column characters.
202 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
203 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
204 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
205 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
206 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
207 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
208 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
211 + add test/demo_panels.c
212 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
215 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
217 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
218 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
221 + add test/key_name.c
222 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
223 + update test/configure
224 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
225 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
226 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
230 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
231 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
232 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
233 illustrate how to use mvcur().
234 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
235 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
236 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
237 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
238 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
241 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
242 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
243 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
244 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
245 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
246 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
249 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
250 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
252 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
253 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
254 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
255 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
258 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
259 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
260 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
261 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
263 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
265 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
266 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
267 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
268 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
269 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
272 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
273 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
275 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
276 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
277 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
278 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
279 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
280 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
281 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
282 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
283 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
284 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
285 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
288 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
289 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
290 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
291 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
292 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
293 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
294 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
297 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
298 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
299 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
300 Ada95 tree is not built.
303 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
304 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
305 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
306 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
307 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
308 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
310 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
311 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
312 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
313 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
314 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
315 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
316 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
317 > fixes based on Coverity report:
318 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
319 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
320 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
321 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
322 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
323 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
324 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
325 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
326 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
327 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
328 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
330 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
331 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
332 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
333 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
334 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
335 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
336 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
337 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
338 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
341 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
342 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
343 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
344 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
345 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
346 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
347 + improved install-sh's quoting.
348 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
352 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
353 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
354 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
355 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
356 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
360 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
361 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
362 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
363 in the configure script to an error.
364 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
365 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
366 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
367 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
368 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
370 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
371 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
374 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
375 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
378 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
379 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
381 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
382 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
383 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
384 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
385 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
386 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
387 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
388 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
391 + regenerated html documentation.
392 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
393 opaque in selected configurations.
394 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
395 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
396 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
397 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
398 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
399 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
400 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
401 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
402 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
403 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
404 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
406 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
407 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
410 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
411 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
412 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
413 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
414 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
415 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
416 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
417 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
418 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
419 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
420 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
421 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
424 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
426 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
427 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
428 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
430 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
431 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
432 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
433 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
434 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
435 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
436 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
437 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
439 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
440 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
443 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
444 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
446 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
448 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
449 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
450 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
453 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
454 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
455 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
456 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
458 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
459 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
460 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
461 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
462 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
463 no longer relies on it.
464 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
465 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
466 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
469 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
470 (report by Rong-En Fan).
473 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
474 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
475 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
476 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
477 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
478 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
479 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
480 its license consistent with ncurses.
481 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
482 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
483 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
486 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
487 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
488 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
489 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
493 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
494 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
495 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
497 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
498 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
501 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
502 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
503 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
506 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
507 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
508 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
509 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
510 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
511 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
512 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
513 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
514 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
515 to manpages as needed.
516 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
517 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
520 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
521 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
522 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
523 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
524 + update config.guess, config.sub
526 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
529 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
530 definitions in <wchar.h>.
531 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
532 correct nor portable.
533 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
535 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
536 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
540 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
541 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
542 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
543 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
544 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
545 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
548 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
549 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
550 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
551 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
553 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
554 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
555 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
556 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
557 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
558 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
559 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
560 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
563 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
564 database configuration.
565 + updates for test/configure script.
566 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
567 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
569 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
570 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
571 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
572 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
574 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
576 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
577 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
580 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
581 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
583 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
584 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
588 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
589 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
592 + add test/echochar.c
593 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
594 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
597 + add AUTHORS file -TD
598 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
599 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
600 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
603 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
604 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
605 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
607 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
608 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
609 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
610 for rpath support in versions past 3.
611 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
612 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
614 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
615 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
616 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
617 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
620 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
621 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
622 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
625 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
626 and status line (Alain Bench).
627 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
628 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
629 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
630 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
633 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
634 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
635 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
636 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
637 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
640 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
641 + updated html documentation.
642 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
643 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
646 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
647 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
648 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
649 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
650 option (from lynx changes) -TD
651 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
652 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
653 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
654 by report by Christopher Parker).
658 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
659 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
660 since it does not really do this -TD
663 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
664 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
665 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
666 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
669 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
670 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
671 embedded into a termcap description.
672 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
673 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
674 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
675 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
677 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
680 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
682 + add test/foldkeys.c
685 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
686 source output (Debian #378783).
687 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
688 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
689 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
690 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
691 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
692 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
695 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
696 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
697 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
700 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
701 or as a text file if those are not available.
702 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
703 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
704 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
707 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
708 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
709 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
710 + update config.guess, config.sub
713 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
714 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
715 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
717 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
718 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
720 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
721 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
722 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
723 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
724 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
725 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
727 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
728 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
729 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
730 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
733 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
734 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
738 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
739 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
741 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
742 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
743 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
744 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
745 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
746 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
749 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
750 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
751 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
752 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
753 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
754 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
755 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
756 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
757 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
758 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
761 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
762 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
763 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
764 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
766 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
769 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
770 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
771 + minor copyright fixes.
772 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
775 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
776 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
777 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
778 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
779 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
780 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
781 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
782 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
784 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
785 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
786 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
787 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
789 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
792 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
793 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
795 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
796 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
797 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
798 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
800 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
801 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
802 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
803 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
806 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
807 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
808 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
809 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
810 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
811 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
812 + update config.guess, config.sub
813 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
814 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
815 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
816 function is broken in that implementation.
819 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
820 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
823 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
824 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
826 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
827 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
829 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
830 reported to implement this feature -TD
833 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
834 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
837 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
838 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
839 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
840 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
841 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
842 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
843 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
844 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
847 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
848 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
850 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
851 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
854 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
855 (report by Alain Bench).
856 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
857 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
858 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
859 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
861 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
862 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
863 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
867 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
868 and/or video attributes.
869 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
870 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
873 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
876 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
877 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
878 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
879 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
880 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
881 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
882 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
883 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
884 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
887 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
888 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
889 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
892 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
893 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
894 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
895 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
896 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
897 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
898 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
899 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
900 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
901 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
904 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
905 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
907 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
909 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
910 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
911 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
914 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
916 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
917 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
920 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
921 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
924 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
925 + suppress line-drawing
926 + implement max_attributes
928 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
929 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
933 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
934 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
936 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
938 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
939 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
940 etc., when allocating screens.
943 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
944 this in test/filter.c
945 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
949 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
950 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
951 + add extension nofilter().
952 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
953 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
954 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
955 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
956 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
959 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
960 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
961 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
962 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
963 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
964 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
965 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
966 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
967 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
969 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
970 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
971 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
973 + update config.guess and config.sub
976 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
977 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
978 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
980 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
981 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
982 that was never built in that directory).
983 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
986 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
988 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
989 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
993 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
994 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
995 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
996 effect of the different functions.
997 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1001 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1002 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1004 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1008 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1009 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1010 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1012 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1013 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1017 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1018 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1019 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1021 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1022 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1023 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1026 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1027 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1028 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1031 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1032 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1033 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1035 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1036 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1039 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1040 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1041 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1042 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1043 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1044 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1045 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1048 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1049 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1050 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1052 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1053 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1054 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1055 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1056 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1058 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1061 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1064 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1065 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1069 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1070 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1071 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1072 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1073 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1075 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1076 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1079 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1080 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1081 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1082 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1083 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1084 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1085 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1086 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1087 default if it is used.
1088 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1089 --with-abi-version option was used.
1090 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1091 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1092 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1095 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1096 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1097 handlers (Debian #326709).
1100 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1101 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1103 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1106 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1107 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1108 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1109 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1111 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1112 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1115 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1116 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1117 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1118 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1119 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1120 + update llib-l* files.
1123 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1124 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1125 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1126 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1130 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1131 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1132 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1133 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1134 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1135 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1136 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1137 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1138 Konstantin Andreev).
1141 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1142 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1143 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1144 several related cases -TD
1145 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1146 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1148 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1149 resets line-drawing.
1152 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1154 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1155 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1156 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1157 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1158 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1159 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1162 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1163 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1164 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1166 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1167 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1170 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1171 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1172 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1173 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1174 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1175 "make install.data" step.
1176 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1177 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1178 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1179 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1180 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1181 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1182 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1183 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1184 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1185 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1186 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1187 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1188 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1189 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1192 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1195 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1196 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1197 review of Debian package).
1198 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1199 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1200 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1201 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1202 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1204 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1205 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1206 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1207 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1208 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1211 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1212 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1213 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1216 + fixes for termcap support:
1217 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1218 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1219 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1220 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1221 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1223 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1224 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1225 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1226 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1229 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1230 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1231 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1232 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1234 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1238 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1240 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1241 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1244 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1245 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1246 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1247 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1248 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1249 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1250 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1254 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1255 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1256 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1257 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1258 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1259 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1260 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1261 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1262 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1263 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1267 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1268 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1269 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1273 + update config.guess, config.sub
1274 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1275 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1276 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1277 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1278 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1280 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1281 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1282 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1285 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1286 position the mouse to a particular item.
1287 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1288 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1289 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1290 --enable-const option.
1293 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1294 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1295 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1296 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1297 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1298 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1299 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1300 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1301 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1302 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1303 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1306 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1308 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1309 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1312 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1313 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1314 anyone used that configuration.
1315 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1317 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1318 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1321 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1322 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1323 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1325 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1326 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1327 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1330 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1331 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1332 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1336 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1337 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1338 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1339 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1340 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1343 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1345 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1347 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1348 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1349 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1352 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1354 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1355 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1356 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1357 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1358 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1359 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1360 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1361 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1362 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1363 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1364 right (cf: 20040228).
1365 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1366 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1369 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1370 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1371 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1372 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1373 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1374 added (Debian #295083).
1375 + add traces to panel library.
1378 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1379 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1380 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1381 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1382 mouse events in this case.
1383 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1384 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1387 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1388 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1389 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1390 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1391 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1392 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1393 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1394 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1397 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1398 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1399 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1400 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1401 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1402 already been started.
1403 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1404 pair_content() and color_content().
1405 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1406 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1407 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1408 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1409 color pairs which are allowed.
1410 + add a top-level tags rule.
1413 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1414 first calling initscr().
1415 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1416 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1417 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1418 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1419 that are curses-specific.
1420 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1421 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1422 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1423 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1427 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1428 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1429 for leading whitespace.
1430 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1431 where a following line begins in column 1.
1432 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1433 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1436 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1439 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1440 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1441 + update config.guess, config.sub
1442 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1443 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1444 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1445 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1446 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1447 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1448 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1451 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1453 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1454 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1457 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1458 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1459 and attr_set functions.
1462 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1463 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1464 forms-demo to be one character short.
1465 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1466 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1467 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1468 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1471 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1472 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1473 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1474 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1476 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1477 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1480 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1481 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1482 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1483 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1484 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1485 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1486 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1488 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1489 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1491 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1492 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1495 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1496 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1497 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1498 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1499 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1500 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1501 wide-character configuration.
1504 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1505 or multicolumn characters.
1508 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1509 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1510 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1511 use_default_colors() be called first.
1514 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1515 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1516 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1517 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1518 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1519 must be wrapped to a new line.
1520 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1521 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1522 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1523 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1524 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1528 + minor fixes for traces.
1529 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1530 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1531 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1535 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1536 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1537 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1538 and shift-out which seem to work.
1539 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1540 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1543 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1544 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1545 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1546 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1550 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1551 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1552 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1553 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1556 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1557 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1558 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1559 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1560 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1561 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1562 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1563 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1564 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1565 is no longer experimental.
1566 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1567 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1570 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1573 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1574 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1575 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1576 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1577 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1578 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1579 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1580 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1583 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1584 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1585 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1586 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1587 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1588 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1589 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1590 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1593 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1594 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1595 > terminfo updates -TD
1596 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1597 with the common usage of bce/ech
1598 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1602 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1603 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1604 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1605 a help window as well.
1606 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1607 the -d option is set.
1608 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1611 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1613 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1614 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1618 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1619 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1620 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1621 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1622 patch by Hans de Goede)
1623 > terminfo updates -TD
1624 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1625 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1626 + add function-keys to decansi
1627 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1628 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1629 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1632 > terminfo updates -TD
1633 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1634 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1636 + review/update konsole entries
1637 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1638 + correct tsl string in kterm
1641 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1644 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1645 multibyte character.
1646 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1648 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1649 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1650 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1651 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1652 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1653 converting termcap to termcap format.
1654 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1655 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1656 > terminfo updates -TD
1657 + minor fixes for emu
1659 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1664 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1665 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1666 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1667 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1668 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1669 > terminfo updates -TD
1670 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1672 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1673 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1674 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1677 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1678 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1680 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1681 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1682 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1683 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1684 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1685 + update config.guess, config.sub
1686 > terminfo updates -TD
1688 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1689 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1690 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1695 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1696 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1697 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1700 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1701 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1702 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1704 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1708 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1709 field_buffer() results.
1710 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1713 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1715 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1716 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1717 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1718 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1719 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1722 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1723 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1724 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1728 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1729 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1731 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1734 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1735 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1736 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1737 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1738 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1739 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1740 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1741 information without an option.
1742 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1743 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1746 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1749 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1750 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1751 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1752 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1753 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1754 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1755 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1757 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1760 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1761 to an unsigned char.
1762 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1763 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1766 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1769 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1770 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1771 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1772 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1773 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1774 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1775 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1776 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1777 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1778 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1779 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1782 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1783 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1784 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1785 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1788 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1790 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1791 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1794 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1795 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1796 mode is shown in that test.
1797 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1798 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1799 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1802 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1804 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1805 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1806 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1807 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1809 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1810 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1811 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1812 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1815 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1816 (request by Mike Aubury).
1817 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1819 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1821 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1824 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1825 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1826 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1827 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1828 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1829 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1830 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1831 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1832 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1833 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1835 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1838 20040207 pre-release
1839 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1840 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1841 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1842 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1843 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1845 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1846 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1847 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1849 20040131 pre-release
1850 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1851 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1852 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1853 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1854 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1855 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1856 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1857 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1858 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1859 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1860 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1862 20040125 pre-release
1863 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1864 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1865 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1866 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1867 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1868 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1869 modifying the displayed value.
1871 20040124 pre-release
1872 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1873 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1874 that works better for cross-compiling.
1876 20040117 pre-release
1877 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1878 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1879 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1880 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1881 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1882 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1883 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1885 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1886 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1888 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1889 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1890 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1891 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1892 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1893 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1894 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1895 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1896 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1897 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1898 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1899 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1901 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1902 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1903 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1904 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1905 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1906 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1907 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1908 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1910 20040110 pre-release
1911 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1912 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1914 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1915 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1917 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1919 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1920 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1921 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1922 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1923 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1926 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1927 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1928 + add pecho_wchar().
1929 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1930 available) on older platforms.
1933 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1934 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1935 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1936 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1937 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1938 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1939 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1940 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1941 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1944 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1945 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1946 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1947 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1948 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1949 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1953 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1954 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1955 applications do not.
1956 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1957 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1958 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1959 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1960 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1961 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1965 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1966 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1967 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1968 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1969 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1970 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1971 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1972 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1973 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1974 awkward for some cases.
1975 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1976 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1978 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1979 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1980 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1981 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1982 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1986 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1987 values (Philippe Blain).
1988 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1989 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1990 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1994 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1995 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1996 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1997 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1998 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1999 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2003 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2004 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2005 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2007 + update config.guess, config.sub
2010 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2011 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2012 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2013 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2014 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2015 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2016 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2018 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2019 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2020 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2021 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2022 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2025 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2026 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2027 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2028 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2029 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2030 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2031 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2032 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2034 + regenerated html documentation.
2035 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2036 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2037 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2040 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2041 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2042 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2043 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2044 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2045 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2046 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2047 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2051 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2052 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2055 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2056 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2057 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2058 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2060 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2061 (report by Philippe Blain).
2064 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2065 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2066 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2067 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2068 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2069 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2070 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2071 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2072 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2074 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2076 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2077 in the clr_bol logic.
2080 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2081 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2082 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2083 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2084 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2085 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2086 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2087 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2088 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2089 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2090 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2091 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2094 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2095 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2096 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2097 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2100 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2101 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2102 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2103 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2104 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2105 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2106 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2107 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2108 --with-install-prefix is used.
2111 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2112 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2113 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2114 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2117 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2118 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2119 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2120 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2121 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2122 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2123 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2124 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2125 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2128 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2129 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2130 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2131 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2132 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2133 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2134 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2137 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2139 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2140 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2141 the size of the scroll-region.
2142 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2145 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2146 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2147 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2151 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2152 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2153 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2154 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2155 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2157 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2158 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2159 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2160 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2161 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2162 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2163 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2164 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2165 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2166 usage and to prevent circular links.
2167 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2168 (rxvt-color): new alias
2169 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2170 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2171 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2172 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2173 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2174 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2176 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2180 + update config.guess, config.sub
2181 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2182 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2185 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2186 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2187 would not accept gcc warning options.
2188 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2189 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2190 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2191 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2192 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2193 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2194 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2196 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2199 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2200 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2201 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2202 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2203 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2204 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2205 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2206 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2209 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2211 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2212 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2213 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2214 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2217 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2219 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2220 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2221 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2222 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2223 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2224 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2227 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2228 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2229 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2230 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2231 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2232 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2233 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2234 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2236 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2237 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2238 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2239 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2242 + regenerated html manpages.
2243 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2244 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2246 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2247 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2249 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2250 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2253 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2254 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2255 + add tkterm entry -TD
2256 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2257 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2258 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2259 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2261 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2262 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2263 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2265 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2266 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2267 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2270 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2271 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2272 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2273 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2275 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2276 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2277 current test programs.
2278 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2279 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2280 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2281 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2283 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2284 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2285 mentioned in the terminfo.
2286 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2287 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2290 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2291 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2292 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2293 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2294 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2295 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2296 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2297 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2300 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2301 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2302 the editing position before making modifications.
2303 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2304 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2305 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2308 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2309 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2310 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2311 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2313 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2314 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2315 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2316 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2317 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2318 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2321 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2322 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2323 code, from recent rewrite.
2324 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2326 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2327 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2330 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2331 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2332 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2333 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2336 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2337 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2339 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2342 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2344 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2345 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2347 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2348 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2349 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2352 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2353 a file when ^W is given.
2354 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2358 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2359 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2360 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2361 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2362 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2363 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2364 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2365 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2369 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2370 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2371 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2374 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2375 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2376 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2377 baudrate was not known.
2378 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2379 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2380 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2381 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2382 corresponding capability might be
2384 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2385 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2386 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2387 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2390 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2391 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2392 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2393 apparently typedef'd.
2394 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2395 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2398 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2399 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2400 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2401 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2402 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2403 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2404 cached for reallocating.
2407 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2408 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2409 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2411 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2412 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2413 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2414 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2415 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2416 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2417 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2418 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2421 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2422 emx-base to the latter -TD
2423 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2424 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2427 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2428 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2429 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2430 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2431 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2434 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2435 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2436 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2437 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2438 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2439 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2440 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2442 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2443 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2444 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2445 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2446 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2449 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2450 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2451 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2452 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2453 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2454 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2456 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2457 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2458 is indeed a "blank".
2459 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2460 sections as small as one line.
2461 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2463 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2464 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2465 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2468 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2469 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2472 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2473 (report by Philippe Blain).
2474 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2475 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2476 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2477 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2478 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2480 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2481 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2482 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2483 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2484 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2485 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2488 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2489 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2491 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2492 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2494 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2495 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2496 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2497 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2500 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2501 overridden from the environment.
2502 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2503 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2504 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2505 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2506 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2507 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2508 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2509 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2510 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2511 by Sam Varshavchik).
2512 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2513 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2514 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2515 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2517 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2518 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2519 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2520 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2521 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2524 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2525 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2526 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2527 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2528 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2529 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2530 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2531 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2532 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2533 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2534 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2535 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2536 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2537 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2538 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2539 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2540 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2541 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2542 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2543 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2544 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2545 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2546 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2549 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2550 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2551 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2552 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2553 winsch() internal function.
2554 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2555 more than one spacing character.
2558 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2559 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2560 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2561 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2562 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2563 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2564 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2565 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2566 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2567 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2570 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2571 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2572 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2573 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2574 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2575 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2576 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2579 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2580 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2581 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2582 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2584 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2585 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2586 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2587 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2588 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2591 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2592 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2593 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2594 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2595 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2596 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2597 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2598 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2599 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2600 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2601 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2602 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2603 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2604 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2605 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2606 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2607 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2610 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2611 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2612 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2613 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2614 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2615 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2616 Frederic L W Meunier).
2618 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2619 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2620 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2621 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2622 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2623 the debug trace in that case.
2624 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2625 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2626 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2627 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2629 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2630 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2632 20021005 pre-release
2633 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2634 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2635 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2636 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2637 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2638 formats such as "%.*s".
2639 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2640 (report Floyd Davidson).
2641 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2643 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2644 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2645 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2647 20020928 pre-release
2648 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2649 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2650 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2652 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2653 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2654 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2655 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2656 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2657 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2658 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2659 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2660 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2661 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2662 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2663 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2664 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2665 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2666 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2667 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2668 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2669 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2670 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2672 20020921 pre-release
2673 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2674 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2675 result in core dump.
2676 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2677 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2678 delimiter rather than '@'.
2679 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2680 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2681 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2682 to the lines given for the destination window.
2684 20020914 pre-release
2685 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2686 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2687 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2688 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2689 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2690 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2691 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2692 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2693 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2694 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2695 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2696 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2698 20020907 pre-release
2699 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2700 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2701 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2702 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2703 html manpages on Debian.
2704 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2705 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2706 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2707 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2708 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2709 a variable from the stack.
2710 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2712 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2713 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2714 _idcok window fields.
2715 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2717 20020901 pre-release
2718 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2719 + update config.guess, config.sub
2720 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2721 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2723 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2724 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2725 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2726 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2727 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2728 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2729 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2730 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2731 use in resizeterm().
2732 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2733 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2734 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2735 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2736 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2737 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2738 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2739 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2740 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2741 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2742 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2746 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2747 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2748 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2749 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2750 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2751 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2754 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2755 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2756 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2757 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2758 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2759 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2760 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2761 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2762 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2764 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2765 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2769 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2770 when translating to termcap.
2771 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2772 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2773 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2775 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2777 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2778 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2780 + document TABSIZE variable.
2781 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2782 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2783 assume_default_colors().
2784 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2786 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2787 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2788 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2789 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2790 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2793 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2795 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2796 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2798 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2799 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2800 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2803 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2805 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2808 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2809 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2810 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2811 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2812 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2813 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2814 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2815 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2816 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2817 configure definitions.
2818 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2819 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2820 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2821 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2822 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2823 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2824 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2825 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2826 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2827 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2828 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2831 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2832 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2833 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2834 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2835 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2836 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2837 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2839 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2840 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2841 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2842 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2845 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2846 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2847 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2848 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2850 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2851 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2852 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2855 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2856 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2858 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2859 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2860 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2862 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2863 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2864 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2865 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2867 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2868 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2869 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2870 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2874 + add charset to generated html.
2875 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2876 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2877 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2878 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2879 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2880 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2884 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2885 key code in get_wch().
2886 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2887 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2888 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2889 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2890 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2891 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2894 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2895 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2897 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2898 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2899 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2900 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2903 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2904 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2905 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2906 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2907 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2908 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2909 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2910 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2911 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2912 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2915 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2919 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2920 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2921 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2922 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2923 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2924 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2925 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2928 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2929 character versions as well.
2930 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2932 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2934 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2935 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2936 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2937 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2938 if gettimeofday() is available.
2941 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2942 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2945 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2947 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2948 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2949 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2950 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2951 + update config.guess, config.sub
2954 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2955 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2956 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2957 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2958 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2959 alias for 'function'.
2962 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2963 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2967 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2968 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2969 + implement win_wchnstr().
2970 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2971 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2974 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2975 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2978 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2979 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2982 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2983 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2984 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2986 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2987 + implement unget_wch().
2988 + implement wget_wch().
2991 + regenerated html manpages.
2992 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2993 + implement wins_wch().
2994 + implement win_wch().
2995 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2998 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2999 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3002 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3003 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3004 + implement key_name().
3005 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3007 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3011 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3012 in spurious symlinks on install.
3015 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3016 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3017 box() and box_set() functions.
3018 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3019 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3020 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3021 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3022 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3023 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3024 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3026 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3028 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3029 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3030 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3031 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3033 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3034 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3037 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3038 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3040 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3044 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3046 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3047 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3048 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3049 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3050 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3051 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3052 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3053 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3054 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3055 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3056 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3057 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3058 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3059 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3060 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3063 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3064 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3067 + update config.guess, config.sub
3068 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3069 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3072 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3073 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3074 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3076 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3077 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3079 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3080 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3081 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3082 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3085 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3088 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3089 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3090 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3091 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3092 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3093 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3094 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3095 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3096 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3098 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3099 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3100 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3102 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3104 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3105 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3106 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3107 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3108 work with SunOS nawk.
3109 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3111 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3112 case it uses multiple tokens.
3115 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3116 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3117 interrupted by that signal.
3118 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3119 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3120 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3121 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3123 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3124 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3125 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3126 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3127 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3130 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3132 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3133 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3134 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3135 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3136 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3137 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3138 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3139 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3142 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3143 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3144 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3145 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3146 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3147 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3148 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3149 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3150 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3153 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3154 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3155 may have different keypad() settings.
3156 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3157 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3158 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3159 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3160 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3161 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3162 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3163 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3165 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3166 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3167 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3168 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3172 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3174 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3175 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3176 implementation in cygwin package).
3177 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3178 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3180 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3181 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3182 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3183 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3184 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3185 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3186 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3187 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3188 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3190 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3191 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3192 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3193 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3194 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3195 <jevans@apple.com>).
3196 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3197 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3198 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3199 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3200 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3204 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3205 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3206 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3207 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3208 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3209 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3210 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3211 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3212 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3213 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3216 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3219 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3220 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3221 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3222 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3223 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3226 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3227 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3230 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3231 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3232 + implement wecho_wchar()
3233 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3234 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3235 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3237 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3238 in a trace by using curly braces.
3239 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3240 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3241 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3242 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3245 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3246 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3247 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3248 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3249 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3253 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3254 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3255 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3256 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3257 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3258 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3259 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3260 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3264 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3265 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3266 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3267 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3268 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3269 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3270 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3271 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3272 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3275 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3276 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3279 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3280 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3281 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3282 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3283 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3284 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3286 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3287 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3289 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3290 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3293 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3294 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3295 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3296 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3297 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3299 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3300 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3302 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3303 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3304 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3305 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3306 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3309 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3310 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3312 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3313 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3314 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3315 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3318 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3319 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3320 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3321 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3322 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3326 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3327 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3328 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3330 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3332 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3334 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3336 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3337 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3338 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3339 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3340 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3341 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3342 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3343 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3344 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3348 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3349 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3350 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3351 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3352 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3353 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3354 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3355 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3356 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3357 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3359 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3360 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3361 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3362 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3363 supports xterm mouse controls.
3364 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3365 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3366 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3367 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3368 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3369 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3370 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3371 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3372 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3373 AX in a color xterm.
3374 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3378 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3379 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3380 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3381 + added llib-ncursesw.
3384 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3385 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3386 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3387 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3388 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3389 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3390 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3391 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3392 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3393 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3394 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3395 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3396 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3397 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3398 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3399 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3400 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3401 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3402 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3403 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3406 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3407 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3408 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3411 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3412 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3413 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3414 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3415 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3416 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3417 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3418 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3419 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3420 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3421 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3422 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3426 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3427 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3428 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3429 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3430 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3431 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3432 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3435 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3436 new wide-character structures.
3437 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3438 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3439 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3440 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3441 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3445 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3447 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3448 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3449 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3451 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3452 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3453 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3456 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3457 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3458 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3461 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3462 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3463 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3464 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3465 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3466 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3467 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3470 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3471 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3472 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3473 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3474 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3475 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3476 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3477 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3478 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3481 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3482 which may be in libutf8.
3483 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3484 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3485 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3486 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3487 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3488 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3489 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3490 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3491 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3492 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3493 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3496 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3497 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3500 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3501 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3502 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3503 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3504 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3506 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3507 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3508 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3509 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3510 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3511 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3512 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3513 are used to manipulate attributes.
3514 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3515 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3516 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3517 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3518 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3519 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3521 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3522 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3523 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3524 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3525 we are using chtype data.
3526 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3528 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3530 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3531 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3532 where a pointer would be more useful.
3533 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3534 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3535 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3536 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3537 passing cchar_t's by address.
3538 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3539 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3540 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3541 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3542 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3543 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3544 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3545 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3548 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3549 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3550 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3551 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3552 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3554 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3555 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3556 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3559 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3560 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3561 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3562 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3563 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3564 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3565 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3566 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3567 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3568 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3569 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3570 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3573 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3574 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3575 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3578 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3579 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3582 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3583 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3584 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3585 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3586 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3589 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3590 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3591 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3592 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3593 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3594 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3595 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3596 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3597 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3598 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3599 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3602 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3603 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3604 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3605 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3606 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3607 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3608 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3609 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3610 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3611 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3612 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3613 any shots there, but the computer did.
3614 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3615 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3619 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3620 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3621 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3622 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3623 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3624 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3627 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3628 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3629 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3630 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3631 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3633 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3635 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3636 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3638 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3640 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3641 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3644 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3645 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3646 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3647 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3648 interface from C++ binding.
3649 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3650 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3651 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3652 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3654 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3655 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3656 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3657 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3660 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3661 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3662 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3663 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3666 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3669 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3673 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3674 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3675 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3676 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3677 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3678 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3679 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3680 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3681 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3682 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3683 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3684 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3687 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3688 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3690 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3691 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3692 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3693 did not do this already.
3694 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3695 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3696 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3697 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3698 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3699 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3700 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3701 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3704 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3705 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3708 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3709 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3710 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3711 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3713 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3715 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3716 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3718 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3719 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3720 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3721 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3722 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3725 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3726 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3727 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3728 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3731 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3732 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3733 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3736 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3737 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3738 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3739 work with 'indent') -TD
3742 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3743 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3744 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3745 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3746 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3748 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3749 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3750 termcap and terminfo functions
3751 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3755 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3756 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3757 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3758 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3759 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3760 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3762 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3763 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3764 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3765 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3766 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3767 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3768 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3769 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3772 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3773 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3774 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3775 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3778 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3779 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3780 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3781 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3783 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3784 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3785 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3786 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3787 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3788 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3789 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3790 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3793 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3794 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3795 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3796 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3797 + change trace output to binary format.
3798 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3799 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3800 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3801 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3802 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3803 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3804 the overwrite logic.
3807 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3808 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3809 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3810 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3811 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3812 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3814 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3815 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3818 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3819 + update generated html files from manpages.
3820 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3822 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3823 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3824 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3825 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3826 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3827 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3828 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3829 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3832 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3833 wrapping at the right margin.
3834 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3835 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3836 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3838 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3839 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3840 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3841 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3842 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3843 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3844 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3845 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3846 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3847 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3848 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3849 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3850 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3851 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3852 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3853 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3854 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3855 option --with-libtool.
3856 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3857 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3858 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3859 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3860 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3863 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3864 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3865 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3866 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3867 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3868 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3869 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3870 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3871 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3872 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3873 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3874 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3875 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3876 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3877 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3878 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3879 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3880 replace select() call.
3883 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3884 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3885 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3886 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3887 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3888 cursor report before decoding.
3889 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3890 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3891 (see assume_default_colors()).
3892 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3893 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3895 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3896 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3897 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3899 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3900 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3901 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3902 for that capability.
3903 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
3904 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
3905 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
3906 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
3907 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
3908 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
3911 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
3912 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
3913 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
3914 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
3915 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
3916 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
3917 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
3918 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
3919 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
3921 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
3922 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
3923 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
3924 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
3925 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
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