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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 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
50 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
51 are not associated with a particular screen.
52 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
53 stdscr to the callback function.
54 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
55 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
56 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
57 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
58 platforms such as AIX where libtool supports only static libraries
59 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
60 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
64 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
65 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
66 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
67 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
69 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
70 wide-characters with extended-colors.
71 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
72 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
73 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
76 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
77 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
79 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
80 are working concurrently.
81 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
85 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
86 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
90 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
91 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
94 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
95 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
98 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
99 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
100 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
101 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
104 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
105 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
106 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
107 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
108 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
109 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
111 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
112 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
116 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
117 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
118 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
121 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
122 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
123 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
126 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
127 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
128 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
132 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
133 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
134 "link_test" builds properly.
135 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
136 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
137 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
138 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
139 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
140 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
141 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
143 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
146 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
150 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
151 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
154 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
156 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
157 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
158 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
161 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
162 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
164 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
165 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
166 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
167 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
171 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
172 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
173 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
174 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
175 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
177 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
178 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
179 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
183 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
184 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
187 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
189 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
191 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
195 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
196 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
198 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
199 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
200 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
201 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
202 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
204 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
205 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
208 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
209 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
210 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
211 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
214 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
215 calls within the ncurses library.
216 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
218 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
219 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
220 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
222 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
223 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
224 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
225 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
226 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
229 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
230 for threaded library (incomplete).
231 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
232 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
236 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
237 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
238 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
239 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
240 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
241 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
242 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
243 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
244 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
247 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
249 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
250 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
253 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
254 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
255 "\0" followed by a digit.
256 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
257 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
258 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
259 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
260 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
261 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
262 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
263 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
264 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
267 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
268 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
269 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
270 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
271 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
273 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
274 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
275 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
279 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
280 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
281 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
282 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
283 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
284 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
285 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
286 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
287 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
290 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
291 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
292 + add test/test_getstr.c
293 + add test/test_inwstr.c
294 + add test/test_instr.c
297 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
298 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
299 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
303 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
304 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
305 ".log" to the name and try again.
306 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
307 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
308 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
309 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
310 --disable-echo option is used.
311 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
312 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
313 + update config.guess, config.sub
316 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
317 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
318 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
322 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
323 problems with multi-column characters.
324 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
325 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
326 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
327 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
328 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
329 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
330 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
333 + add test/demo_panels.c
334 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
337 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
339 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
340 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
343 + add test/key_name.c
344 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
345 + update test/configure
346 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
347 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
348 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
352 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
353 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
354 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
355 illustrate how to use mvcur().
356 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
357 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
358 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
359 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
360 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
363 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
364 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
365 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
366 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
367 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
368 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
371 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
372 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
374 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
375 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
376 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
377 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
380 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
381 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
382 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
383 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
385 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
387 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
388 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
389 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
390 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
391 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
394 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
395 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
397 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
398 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
399 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
400 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
401 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
402 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
403 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
404 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
405 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
406 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
407 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
410 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
411 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
412 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
413 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
414 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
415 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
416 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
419 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
420 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
421 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
422 Ada95 tree is not built.
425 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
426 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
427 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
428 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
429 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
430 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
432 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
433 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
434 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
435 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
436 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
437 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
438 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
439 > fixes based on Coverity report:
440 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
441 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
442 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
443 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
444 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
445 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
446 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
447 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
448 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
449 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
450 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
452 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
453 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
454 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
455 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
456 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
457 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
458 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
459 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
460 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
463 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
464 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
465 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
466 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
467 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
468 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
469 + improved install-sh's quoting.
470 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
474 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
475 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
476 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
477 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
478 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
482 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
483 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
484 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
485 in the configure script to an error.
486 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
487 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
488 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
489 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
490 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
492 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
493 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
496 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
497 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
500 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
501 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
503 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
504 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
505 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
506 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
507 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
508 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
509 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
510 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
513 + regenerated html documentation.
514 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
515 opaque in selected configurations.
516 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
517 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
518 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
519 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
520 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
521 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
522 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
523 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
524 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
525 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
526 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
528 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
529 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
532 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
533 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
534 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
535 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
536 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
537 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
538 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
539 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
540 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
541 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
542 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
543 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
546 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
548 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
549 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
550 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
552 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
553 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
554 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
555 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
556 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
557 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
558 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
559 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
561 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
562 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
565 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
566 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
568 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
570 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
571 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
572 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
575 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
576 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
577 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
578 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
580 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
581 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
582 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
583 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
584 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
585 no longer relies on it.
586 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
587 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
588 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
591 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
592 (report by Rong-En Fan).
595 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
596 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
597 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
598 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
599 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
600 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
601 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
602 its license consistent with ncurses.
603 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
604 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
605 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
608 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
609 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
610 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
611 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
615 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
616 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
617 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
619 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
620 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
623 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
624 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
625 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
628 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
629 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
630 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
631 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
632 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
633 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
634 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
635 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
636 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
637 to manpages as needed.
638 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
639 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
642 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
643 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
644 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
645 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
646 + update config.guess, config.sub
648 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
651 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
652 definitions in <wchar.h>.
653 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
654 correct nor portable.
655 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
657 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
658 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
662 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
663 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
664 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
665 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
666 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
667 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
670 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
671 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
672 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
673 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
675 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
676 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
677 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
678 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
679 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
680 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
681 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
682 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
685 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
686 database configuration.
687 + updates for test/configure script.
688 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
689 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
691 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
692 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
693 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
694 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
696 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
698 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
699 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
702 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
703 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
705 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
706 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
710 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
711 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
714 + add test/echochar.c
715 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
716 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
719 + add AUTHORS file -TD
720 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
721 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
722 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
725 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
726 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
727 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
729 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
730 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
731 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
732 for rpath support in versions past 3.
733 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
734 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
736 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
737 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
738 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
739 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
742 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
743 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
744 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
747 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
748 and status line (Alain Bench).
749 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
750 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
751 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
752 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
755 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
756 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
757 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
758 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
759 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
762 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
763 + updated html documentation.
764 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
765 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
768 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
769 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
770 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
771 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
772 option (from lynx changes) -TD
773 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
774 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
775 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
776 by report by Christopher Parker).
780 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
781 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
782 since it does not really do this -TD
785 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
786 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
787 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
788 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
791 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
792 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
793 embedded into a termcap description.
794 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
795 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
796 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
797 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
799 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
802 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
804 + add test/foldkeys.c
807 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
808 source output (Debian #378783).
809 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
810 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
811 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
812 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
813 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
814 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
817 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
818 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
819 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
822 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
823 or as a text file if those are not available.
824 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
825 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
826 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
829 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
830 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
831 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
832 + update config.guess, config.sub
835 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
836 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
837 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
839 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
840 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
842 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
843 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
844 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
845 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
846 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
847 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
849 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
850 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
851 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
852 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
855 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
856 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
860 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
861 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
863 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
864 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
865 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
866 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
867 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
868 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
871 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
872 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
873 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
874 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
875 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
876 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
877 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
878 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
879 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
880 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
883 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
884 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
885 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
886 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
888 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
891 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
892 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
893 + minor copyright fixes.
894 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
897 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
898 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
899 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
900 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
901 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
902 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
903 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
904 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
906 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
907 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
908 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
909 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
911 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
914 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
915 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
917 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
918 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
919 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
920 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
922 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
923 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
924 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
925 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
928 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
929 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
930 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
931 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
932 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
933 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
934 + update config.guess, config.sub
935 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
936 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
937 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
938 function is broken in that implementation.
941 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
942 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
945 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
946 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
948 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
949 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
951 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
952 reported to implement this feature -TD
955 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
956 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
959 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
960 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
961 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
962 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
963 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
964 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
965 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
966 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
969 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
970 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
972 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
973 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
976 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
977 (report by Alain Bench).
978 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
979 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
980 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
981 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
983 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
984 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
985 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
989 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
990 and/or video attributes.
991 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
992 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
995 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
998 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
999 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1000 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1001 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1002 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1003 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1004 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1005 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1006 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1009 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1010 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1011 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1014 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1015 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1016 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1017 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1018 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1019 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1020 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1021 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1022 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1023 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1026 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1027 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1028 rather than delayed.
1029 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1031 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1032 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1033 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1036 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1038 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1039 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1042 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1043 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1046 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1047 + suppress line-drawing
1048 + implement max_attributes
1050 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1051 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1055 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1056 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1058 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1060 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1061 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1062 etc., when allocating screens.
1065 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1066 this in test/filter.c
1067 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1071 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1072 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1073 + add extension nofilter().
1074 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1075 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1076 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1077 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1078 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1081 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1082 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1083 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1084 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1085 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1086 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1087 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1088 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1089 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1091 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1092 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1093 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1095 + update config.guess and config.sub
1098 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1099 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1100 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1102 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1103 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1104 that was never built in that directory).
1105 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1108 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1110 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1111 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1115 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1116 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1117 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1118 effect of the different functions.
1119 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1123 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1124 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1126 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1130 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1131 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1132 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1134 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1135 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1139 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1140 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1141 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1143 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1144 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1145 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1148 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1149 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1150 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1153 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1154 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1155 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1157 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1158 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1161 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1162 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1163 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1164 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1165 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1166 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1167 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1170 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1171 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1172 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1174 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1175 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1176 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1177 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1178 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1180 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1183 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1186 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1187 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1191 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1192 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1193 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1194 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1195 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1197 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1198 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1201 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1202 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1203 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1204 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1205 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1206 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1207 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1208 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1209 default if it is used.
1210 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1211 --with-abi-version option was used.
1212 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1213 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1214 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1217 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1218 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1219 handlers (Debian #326709).
1222 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1223 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1225 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1228 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1229 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1230 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1231 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1233 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1234 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1237 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1238 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1239 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1240 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1241 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1242 + update llib-l* files.
1245 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1246 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1247 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1248 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1252 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1253 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1254 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1255 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1256 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1257 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1258 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1259 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1260 Konstantin Andreev).
1263 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1264 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1265 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1266 several related cases -TD
1267 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1268 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1270 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1271 resets line-drawing.
1274 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1276 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1277 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1278 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1279 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1280 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1281 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1284 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1285 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1286 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1288 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1289 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1292 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1293 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1294 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1295 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1296 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1297 "make install.data" step.
1298 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1299 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1300 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1301 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1302 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1303 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1304 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1305 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1306 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1307 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1308 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1309 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1310 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1311 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1314 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1317 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1318 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1319 review of Debian package).
1320 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1321 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1322 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1323 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1324 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1326 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1327 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1328 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1329 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1330 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1333 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1334 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1335 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1338 + fixes for termcap support:
1339 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1340 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1341 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1342 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1343 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1345 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1346 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1347 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1348 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1351 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1352 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1353 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1354 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1356 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1360 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1362 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1363 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1366 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1367 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1368 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1369 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1370 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1371 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1372 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1376 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1377 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1378 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1379 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1380 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1381 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1382 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1383 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1384 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1385 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1389 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1390 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1391 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1395 + update config.guess, config.sub
1396 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1397 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1398 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1399 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1400 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1402 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1403 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1404 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1407 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1408 position the mouse to a particular item.
1409 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1410 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1411 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1412 --enable-const option.
1415 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1416 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1417 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1418 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1419 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1420 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1421 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1422 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1423 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1424 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1425 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1428 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1430 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1431 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1434 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1435 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1436 anyone used that configuration.
1437 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1439 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1440 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1443 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1444 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1445 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1447 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1448 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1449 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1452 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1453 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1454 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1458 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1459 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1460 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1461 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1462 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1465 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1467 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1469 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1470 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1471 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1474 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1476 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1477 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1478 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1479 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1480 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1481 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1482 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1483 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1484 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1485 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1486 right (cf: 20040228).
1487 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1488 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1491 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1492 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1493 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1494 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1495 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1496 added (Debian #295083).
1497 + add traces to panel library.
1500 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1501 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1502 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1503 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1504 mouse events in this case.
1505 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1506 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1509 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1510 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1511 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1512 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1513 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1514 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1515 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1516 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1519 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1520 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1521 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1522 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1523 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1524 already been started.
1525 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1526 pair_content() and color_content().
1527 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1528 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1529 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1530 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1531 color pairs which are allowed.
1532 + add a top-level tags rule.
1535 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1536 first calling initscr().
1537 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1538 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1539 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1540 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1541 that are curses-specific.
1542 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1543 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1544 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1545 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1549 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1550 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1551 for leading whitespace.
1552 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1553 where a following line begins in column 1.
1554 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1555 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1558 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1561 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1562 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1563 + update config.guess, config.sub
1564 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1565 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1566 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1567 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1568 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1569 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1570 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1573 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1575 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1576 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1579 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1580 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1581 and attr_set functions.
1584 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1585 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1586 forms-demo to be one character short.
1587 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1588 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1589 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1590 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1593 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1594 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1595 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1596 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1598 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1599 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1602 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1603 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1604 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1605 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1606 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1607 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1608 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1610 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1611 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1613 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1614 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1617 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1618 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1619 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1620 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1621 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1622 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1623 wide-character configuration.
1626 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1627 or multicolumn characters.
1630 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1631 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1632 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1633 use_default_colors() be called first.
1636 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1637 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1638 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1639 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1640 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1641 must be wrapped to a new line.
1642 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1643 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1644 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1645 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1646 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1650 + minor fixes for traces.
1651 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1652 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1653 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1657 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1658 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1659 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1660 and shift-out which seem to work.
1661 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1662 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1665 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1666 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1667 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1668 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1672 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1673 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1674 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1675 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1678 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1679 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1680 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1681 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1682 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1683 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1684 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1685 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1686 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1687 is no longer experimental.
1688 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1689 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1692 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1695 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1696 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1697 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1698 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1699 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1700 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1701 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1702 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1705 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1706 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1707 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1708 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1709 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1710 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1711 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1712 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1715 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1716 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1717 > terminfo updates -TD
1718 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1719 with the common usage of bce/ech
1720 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1724 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1725 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1726 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1727 a help window as well.
1728 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1729 the -d option is set.
1730 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1733 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1735 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1736 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1740 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1741 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1742 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1743 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1744 patch by Hans de Goede)
1745 > terminfo updates -TD
1746 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1747 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1748 + add function-keys to decansi
1749 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1750 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1751 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1754 > terminfo updates -TD
1755 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1756 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1758 + review/update konsole entries
1759 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1760 + correct tsl string in kterm
1763 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1766 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1767 multibyte character.
1768 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1770 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1771 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1772 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1773 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1774 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1775 converting termcap to termcap format.
1776 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1777 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1778 > terminfo updates -TD
1779 + minor fixes for emu
1781 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1786 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1787 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1788 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1789 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1790 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1791 > terminfo updates -TD
1792 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1794 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1795 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1796 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1799 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1800 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1802 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1803 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1804 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1805 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1806 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1807 + update config.guess, config.sub
1808 > terminfo updates -TD
1810 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1811 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1812 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1817 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1818 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1819 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1822 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1823 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1824 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1826 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1830 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1831 field_buffer() results.
1832 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1835 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1837 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1838 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1839 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1840 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1841 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1844 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1845 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1846 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1850 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1851 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1853 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1856 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1857 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1858 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1859 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1860 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1861 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1862 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1863 information without an option.
1864 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1865 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1868 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1871 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1872 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1873 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1874 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1875 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1876 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1877 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1879 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1882 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1883 to an unsigned char.
1884 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1885 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1888 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1891 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1892 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1893 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1894 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1895 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1896 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1897 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1898 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1899 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1900 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1901 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1904 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1905 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1906 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1907 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1910 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1912 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1913 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1916 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1917 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1918 mode is shown in that test.
1919 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1920 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1921 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1924 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1926 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1927 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1928 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1929 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1931 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1932 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1933 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1934 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1937 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1938 (request by Mike Aubury).
1939 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1941 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1943 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1946 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1947 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1948 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1949 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1950 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1951 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1952 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1953 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1954 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1955 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1957 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1960 20040207 pre-release
1961 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1962 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1963 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1964 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1965 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1967 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1968 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1969 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1971 20040131 pre-release
1972 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1973 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1974 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1975 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1976 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1977 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1978 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1979 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1980 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1981 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1982 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1984 20040125 pre-release
1985 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1986 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1987 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1988 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1989 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1990 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1991 modifying the displayed value.
1993 20040124 pre-release
1994 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1995 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1996 that works better for cross-compiling.
1998 20040117 pre-release
1999 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2000 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2001 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2002 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2003 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2004 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2005 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2007 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2008 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2010 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2011 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2012 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2013 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2014 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2015 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2016 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2017 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2018 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2019 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2020 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2021 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2023 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2024 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2025 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2026 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2027 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2028 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2029 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2030 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2032 20040110 pre-release
2033 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2034 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2036 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2037 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2039 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2041 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2042 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2043 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2044 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2045 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2048 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2049 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2050 + add pecho_wchar().
2051 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2052 available) on older platforms.
2055 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2056 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2057 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2058 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2059 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2060 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2061 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2062 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2063 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2066 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2067 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2068 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2069 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2070 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2071 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2075 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2076 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2077 applications do not.
2078 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2079 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2080 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2081 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2082 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2083 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2087 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2088 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2089 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2090 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2091 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2092 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2093 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2094 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2095 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2096 awkward for some cases.
2097 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2098 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2100 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2101 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2102 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2103 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2104 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2108 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2109 values (Philippe Blain).
2110 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2111 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2112 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2116 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2117 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2118 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2119 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2120 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2121 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2125 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2126 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2127 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2129 + update config.guess, config.sub
2132 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2133 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2134 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2135 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2136 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2137 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2138 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2140 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2141 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2142 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2143 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2144 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2147 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2148 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2149 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2150 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2151 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2152 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2153 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2154 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2156 + regenerated html documentation.
2157 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2158 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2159 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2162 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2163 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2164 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2165 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2166 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2167 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2168 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2169 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2173 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2174 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2177 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2178 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2179 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2180 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2182 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2183 (report by Philippe Blain).
2186 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2187 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2188 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2189 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2190 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2191 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2192 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2193 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2194 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2196 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2198 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2199 in the clr_bol logic.
2202 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2203 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2204 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2205 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2206 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2207 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2208 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2209 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2210 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2211 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2212 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2213 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2216 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2217 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2218 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2219 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2222 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2223 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2224 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2225 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2226 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2227 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2228 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2229 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2230 --with-install-prefix is used.
2233 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2234 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2235 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2236 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2239 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2240 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2241 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2242 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2243 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2244 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2245 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2246 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2247 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2250 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2251 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2252 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2253 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2254 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2255 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2256 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2259 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2261 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2262 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2263 the size of the scroll-region.
2264 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2267 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2268 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2269 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2273 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2274 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2275 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2276 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2277 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2279 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2280 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2281 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2282 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2283 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2284 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2285 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2286 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2287 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2288 usage and to prevent circular links.
2289 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2290 (rxvt-color): new alias
2291 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2292 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2293 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2294 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2295 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2296 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2298 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2302 + update config.guess, config.sub
2303 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2304 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2307 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2308 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2309 would not accept gcc warning options.
2310 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2311 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2312 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2313 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2314 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2315 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2316 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2318 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2321 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2322 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2323 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2324 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2325 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2326 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2327 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2328 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2331 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2333 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2334 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2335 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2336 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2339 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2341 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2342 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2343 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2344 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2345 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2346 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2349 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2350 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2351 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2352 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2353 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2354 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2355 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2356 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2358 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2359 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2360 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2361 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2364 + regenerated html manpages.
2365 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2366 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2368 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2369 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2371 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2372 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2375 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2376 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2377 + add tkterm entry -TD
2378 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2379 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2380 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2381 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2383 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2384 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2385 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2387 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2388 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2389 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2392 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2393 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2394 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2395 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2397 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2398 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2399 current test programs.
2400 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2401 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2402 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2403 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2405 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2406 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2407 mentioned in the terminfo.
2408 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2409 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2412 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2413 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2414 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2415 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2416 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2417 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2418 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2419 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2422 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2423 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2424 the editing position before making modifications.
2425 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2426 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2427 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2430 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2431 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2432 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2433 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2435 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2436 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2437 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2438 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2439 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2440 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2443 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2444 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2445 code, from recent rewrite.
2446 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2448 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2449 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2452 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2453 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2454 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2455 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2458 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2459 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2461 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2464 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2466 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2467 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2469 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2470 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2471 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2474 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2475 a file when ^W is given.
2476 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2480 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2481 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2482 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2483 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2484 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2485 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2486 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2487 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2491 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2492 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2493 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2496 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2497 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2498 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2499 baudrate was not known.
2500 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2501 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2502 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2503 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2504 corresponding capability might be
2506 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2507 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2508 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2509 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2512 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2513 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2514 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2515 apparently typedef'd.
2516 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2517 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2520 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2521 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2522 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2523 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2524 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2525 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2526 cached for reallocating.
2529 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2530 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2531 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2533 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2534 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2535 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2536 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2537 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2538 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2539 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2540 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2543 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2544 emx-base to the latter -TD
2545 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2546 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2549 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2550 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2551 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2552 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2553 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2556 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2557 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2558 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2559 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2560 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2561 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2562 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2564 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2565 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2566 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2567 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2568 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2571 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2572 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2573 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2574 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2575 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2576 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2578 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2579 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2580 is indeed a "blank".
2581 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2582 sections as small as one line.
2583 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2585 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2586 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2587 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2590 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2591 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2594 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2595 (report by Philippe Blain).
2596 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2597 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2598 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2599 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2600 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2602 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2603 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2604 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2605 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2606 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2607 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2610 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2611 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2613 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2614 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2616 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2617 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2618 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2619 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2622 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2623 overridden from the environment.
2624 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2625 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2626 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2627 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2628 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2629 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2630 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2631 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2632 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2633 by Sam Varshavchik).
2634 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2635 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2636 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2637 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2639 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2640 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2641 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2642 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2643 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2646 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2647 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2648 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2649 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2650 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2651 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2652 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2653 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2654 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2655 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2656 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2657 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2658 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2659 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2660 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2661 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2662 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2663 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2664 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2665 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2666 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2667 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2668 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2671 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2672 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2673 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2674 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2675 winsch() internal function.
2676 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2677 more than one spacing character.
2680 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2681 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2682 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2683 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2684 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2685 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2686 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2687 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2688 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2689 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2692 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2693 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2694 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2695 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2696 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2697 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2698 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2701 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2702 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2703 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2704 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2706 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2707 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2708 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2709 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2710 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2713 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2714 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2715 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2716 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2717 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2718 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2719 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2720 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2721 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2722 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2723 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2724 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2725 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2726 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2727 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2728 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2729 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2732 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2733 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2734 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2735 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2736 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2737 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2738 Frederic L W Meunier).
2740 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2741 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2742 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2743 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2744 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2745 the debug trace in that case.
2746 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2747 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2748 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2749 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2751 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2752 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2754 20021005 pre-release
2755 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2756 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2757 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2758 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2759 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2760 formats such as "%.*s".
2761 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2762 (report Floyd Davidson).
2763 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2765 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2766 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2767 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2769 20020928 pre-release
2770 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2771 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2772 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2774 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2775 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2776 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2777 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2778 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2779 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2780 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2781 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2782 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2783 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2784 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2785 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2786 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2787 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2788 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2789 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2790 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2791 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2792 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2794 20020921 pre-release
2795 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2796 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2797 result in core dump.
2798 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2799 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2800 delimiter rather than '@'.
2801 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2802 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2803 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2804 to the lines given for the destination window.
2806 20020914 pre-release
2807 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2808 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2809 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2810 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2811 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2812 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2813 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2814 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2815 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2816 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2817 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2818 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2820 20020907 pre-release
2821 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2822 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2823 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2824 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2825 html manpages on Debian.
2826 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2827 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2828 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2829 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2830 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2831 a variable from the stack.
2832 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2834 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2835 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2836 _idcok window fields.
2837 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2839 20020901 pre-release
2840 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2841 + update config.guess, config.sub
2842 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2843 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2845 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2846 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2847 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2848 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2849 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2850 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2851 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2852 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2853 use in resizeterm().
2854 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2855 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2856 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2857 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2858 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2859 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2860 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2861 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2862 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2863 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2864 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2868 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2869 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2870 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2871 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2872 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2873 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2876 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2877 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2878 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2879 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2880 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2881 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2882 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2883 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2884 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2886 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2887 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2891 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2892 when translating to termcap.
2893 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2894 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2895 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2897 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2899 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2900 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2902 + document TABSIZE variable.
2903 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2904 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2905 assume_default_colors().
2906 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2908 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2909 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2910 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2911 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2912 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2915 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2917 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2918 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2920 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2921 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2922 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2925 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2927 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2930 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2931 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2932 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2933 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2934 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2935 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2936 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2937 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2938 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2939 configure definitions.
2940 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2941 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2942 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2943 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2944 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2945 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2946 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2947 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2948 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2949 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2950 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2953 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2954 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2955 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2956 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2957 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2958 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2959 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2961 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2962 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2963 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2964 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2967 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2968 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2969 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2970 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2972 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2973 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2974 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2977 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2978 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2980 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2981 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2982 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2984 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2985 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2986 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2987 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2989 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2990 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2991 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2992 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2996 + add charset to generated html.
2997 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2998 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2999 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3000 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3001 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3002 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3006 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3007 key code in get_wch().
3008 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3009 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3010 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3011 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3012 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3013 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3016 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3017 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3019 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3020 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3021 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3022 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3025 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3026 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3027 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3028 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3029 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3030 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3031 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3032 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3033 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3034 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3037 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3041 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3042 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3043 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3044 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3045 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3046 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3047 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3050 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3051 character versions as well.
3052 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3054 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3056 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3057 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3058 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3059 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3060 if gettimeofday() is available.
3063 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3064 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3067 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3069 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3070 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3071 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3072 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3073 + update config.guess, config.sub
3076 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3077 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3078 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3079 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3080 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3081 alias for 'function'.
3084 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3085 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3089 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3090 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3091 + implement win_wchnstr().
3092 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3093 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3096 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3097 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3100 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3101 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3104 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3105 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3106 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3108 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3109 + implement unget_wch().
3110 + implement wget_wch().
3113 + regenerated html manpages.
3114 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3115 + implement wins_wch().
3116 + implement win_wch().
3117 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3120 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3121 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3124 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3125 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3126 + implement key_name().
3127 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3129 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3133 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3134 in spurious symlinks on install.
3137 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3138 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3139 box() and box_set() functions.
3140 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3141 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3142 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3143 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3144 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3145 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3146 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3148 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3150 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3151 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3152 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3153 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3155 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3156 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3159 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3160 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3162 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3166 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3168 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3169 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3170 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3171 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3172 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3173 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3174 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3175 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3176 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3177 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3178 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3179 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3180 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3181 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3182 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3185 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3186 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3189 + update config.guess, config.sub
3190 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3191 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3194 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3195 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3196 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3198 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3199 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3201 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3202 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3203 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3204 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3207 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3210 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3211 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3212 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3213 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3214 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3215 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3216 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3217 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3218 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3220 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3221 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3222 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3224 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3226 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3227 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3228 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3229 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3230 work with SunOS nawk.
3231 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3233 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3234 case it uses multiple tokens.
3237 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3238 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3239 interrupted by that signal.
3240 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3241 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3242 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3243 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3245 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3246 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3247 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3248 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3249 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3252 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3254 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3255 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3256 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3257 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3258 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3259 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3260 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3261 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3264 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3265 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3266 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3267 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3268 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3269 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3270 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3271 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3272 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3275 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3276 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3277 may have different keypad() settings.
3278 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3279 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3280 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3281 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3282 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3283 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3284 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3285 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3287 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3288 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3289 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3290 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3294 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3296 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3297 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3298 implementation in cygwin package).
3299 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3300 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3302 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3303 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3304 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3305 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3306 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3307 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3308 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3309 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3310 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3312 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3313 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3314 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3315 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3316 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3317 <jevans@apple.com>).
3318 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3319 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3320 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3321 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3322 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3326 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3327 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3328 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3329 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3330 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3331 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3332 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3333 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3334 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3335 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3338 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3341 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3342 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3343 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3344 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3345 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3348 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3349 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3352 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3353 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3354 + implement wecho_wchar()
3355 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3356 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3357 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3359 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3360 in a trace by using curly braces.
3361 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3362 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3363 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3364 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3367 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3368 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3369 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3370 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3371 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3375 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3376 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3377 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3378 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3379 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3380 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3381 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3382 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3386 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3387 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3388 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3389 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3390 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3391 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3392 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3393 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3394 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3397 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3398 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3401 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3402 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3403 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3404 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3405 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3406 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3408 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3409 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3411 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3412 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3415 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3416 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3417 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3418 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3419 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3421 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3422 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3424 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3425 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3426 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3427 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3428 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3431 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3432 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3434 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3435 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3436 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3437 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3440 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3441 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3442 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3443 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3444 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3448 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3449 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3450 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3452 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3454 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3456 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3458 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3459 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3460 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3461 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3462 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3463 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3464 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3465 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3466 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3470 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3471 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3472 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3473 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3474 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3475 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3476 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3477 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3478 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3479 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3481 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3482 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3483 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3484 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3485 supports xterm mouse controls.
3486 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3487 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3488 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3489 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3490 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3491 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3492 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3493 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3494 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3495 AX in a color xterm.
3496 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3500 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3501 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3502 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3503 + added llib-ncursesw.
3506 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3507 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3508 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3509 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3510 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3511 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3512 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3513 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3514 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3515 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3516 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3517 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3518 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3519 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3520 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3521 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3522 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3523 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3524 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3525 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3528 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3529 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3530 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3533 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3534 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3535 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3536 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3537 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3538 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3539 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3540 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3541 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3542 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3543 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3544 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3548 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3549 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3550 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3551 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3552 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3553 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3554 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3557 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3558 new wide-character structures.
3559 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3560 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3561 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3562 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3563 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3567 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3569 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3570 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3571 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3573 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3574 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3575 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3578 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3579 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3580 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3583 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3584 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3585 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3586 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3587 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3588 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3589 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3592 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3593 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3594 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3595 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3596 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3597 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3598 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3599 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3600 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3603 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3604 which may be in libutf8.
3605 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3606 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3607 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3608 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3609 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3610 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3611 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3612 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3613 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3614 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3615 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3618 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3619 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3622 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3623 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3624 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3625 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3626 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3628 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3629 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3630 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3631 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3632 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3633 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3634 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3635 are used to manipulate attributes.
3636 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3637 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3638 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3639 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3640 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3641 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3643 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3644 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3645 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3646 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3647 we are using chtype data.
3648 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3650 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3652 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3653 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3654 where a pointer would be more useful.
3655 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3656 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3657 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3658 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3659 passing cchar_t's by address.
3660 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3661 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3662 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3663 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3664 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3665 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3666 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3667 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3670 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3671 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3672 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3673 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3674 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3676 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3677 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3678 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3681 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3682 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3683 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3684 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3685 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3686 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3687 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3688 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3689 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3690 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3691 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3692 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3695 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3696 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3697 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3700 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3701 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3704 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3705 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3706 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3707 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3708 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3711 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3712 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3713 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3714 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3715 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3716 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3717 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3718 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3719 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3720 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3721 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3724 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3725 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3726 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3727 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3728 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3729 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3730 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3731 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3732 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3733 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3734 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3735 any shots there, but the computer did.
3736 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3737 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3741 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3742 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3743 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3744 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3745 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3746 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3749 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3750 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3751 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3752 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3753 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3755 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3757 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3758 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3760 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3762 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3763 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3766 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3767 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3768 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3769 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3770 interface from C++ binding.
3771 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3772 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3773 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3774 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3776 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3777 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3778 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3779 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3782 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3783 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3784 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3785 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3788 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3791 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3795 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3796 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3797 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3798 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3799 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3800 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3801 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3802 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3803 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3804 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3805 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3806 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3809 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3810 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3812 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3813 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3814 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3815 did not do this already.
3816 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3817 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3818 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3819 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3820 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3821 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3822 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3823 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3826 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3827 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3830 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3831 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3832 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3833 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3835 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3837 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3838 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3840 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3841 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3842 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3843 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3844 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3847 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3848 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3849 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3850 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3853 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3854 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3855 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3858 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3859 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3860 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3861 work with 'indent') -TD
3864 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3865 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3866 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3867 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3868 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3870 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3871 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3872 termcap and terminfo functions
3873 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3877 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3878 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3879 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3880 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3881 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3882 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3884 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3885 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3886 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3887 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3888 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3889 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3890 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3891 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3894 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3895 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3896 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3897 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3900 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3901 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3902 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3903 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3905 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3906 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3907 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3908 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3909 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3910 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3911 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3912 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3915 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3916 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3917 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3918 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3919 + change trace output to binary format.
3920 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3921 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3922 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3923 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3924 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3925 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3926 the overwrite logic.
3929 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3930 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3931 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3932 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3933 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3934 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
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