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32 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
33 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
36 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
38 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
39 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
40 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
42 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
43 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
44 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
46 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
47 it is not possible to add this information.
50 + check return value of _nc_save_str(), in special case for tic where
51 extended capabilities are processed but the terminal description was
52 not initialized (report by Ziqiao Kong).
53 + regenerate llib-* files.
56 + add tiscan_s() to help applications check formatting capabilities
57 that would be passed to tiparm_s, etc.
58 + add tiparm_s() to provide applications a way to tell ncurses what
59 the expected parameters are for a capability (tmux #3531).
60 + improve check in lib_tparm.c, ensuring that a char* fits into a
62 + add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven
64 + drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08
65 (Debian #1034549, cf: 20170722).
68 + improve checks for limits on privileged execution:
69 + modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than
70 only checking root uid.
71 + use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks.
72 + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options.
73 + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor
74 (OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263).
77 + configure script fixes:
78 + fix copy/paste error in configure option --disable-root-access
79 (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
80 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro's amend default case to avoid
81 undefining _XOPEN_SOURCE if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined.
82 + modify test_tparm to account for extended capabilities.
83 + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of numeric parameters,
84 overlooked in 20230408.
85 + fix errata in clear.1 and curs_terminfo.3x
88 + document limitations of tparm, and error-returns in curs_terminfo.3x
89 + document limitations of tgoto, and error-returns in curs_termcap.3x
90 + add xterm+focus to alacritty+common (patch by Christian Duerr).
91 + add "-v" option to tput, to show warnings.
92 > improve checks for malformed terminfo data (report/analysis by
93 Jonathan Bar Or, Michael Pearse, Emanuele Cozzi).
94 + make the parameter type/count checks in _nc_tiparm() more stringent
95 + update tgoto() to account for _nc_tiparm() changes
96 + add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of string parameters
97 + add special cases in tput to handle extensions Cs/Ms parameters
98 + ignore compiled-terminfo where the array sizes exceed the standard
101 + modify experimental Windows driver to work with xterm mouse protocol.
102 + remove DECCOLM+DECSCLM from foot (patch by Daniel Ekloef).
105 + improve manpage description for addch versus unctrl format used for
106 non-printable characters.
107 + modify version-check for gcc/g++, now works for msys2.
108 + modify check in _nc_write_entry() for multiply defined aliases to
109 report problems within the current runtime of tic rather than for
110 conflicts with pre-existing terminal descriptions.
111 + allow for MinGW32-/64-bit configurations to use _DEFAULT_SOURCE
112 + clarify interaction of -R option versus -C, -I and -r in infocmp
114 + build-fix in lib_win32con.c (cf: 20230211).
117 + build-fixes for rpm test-packages.
118 + add/use configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede
122 + configure-script improvements:
123 + recent msys2 headers work with _DEFAULT_SOURCE; amend check
124 + use $ac_includes_default in most cases where stdlib.h should work
125 + use #error consistently vs "make an error"
126 + add configure macro for gettimeofday vs inline check
129 + set dwShareMode in calls to CreateConsoleScreenBuffer() (patch by
131 + use CreateFile with "CONIN$", "CONOUT$" rather than GetStdHandle to
132 obtain a handle on the actual console, avoiding redirection in the
133 MinGW/Win32 configurations (adapted from patch by LIU Hao).
136 + document XF, kxIN and kxOUT -TD
137 + add note on sun/wscons/cmdtool/shelltool -TD
138 + modify configure script check for pkg-config library directory to
139 take into account an older version 0.15.0 which used PKG_CONFIG_PATH
140 but not PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
143 + correct limit-check when dumping tc/use clause via tic -I (report by
145 + correct a check for manpage-alias in edit_man.sh, to work with out of
146 tree builds (report by Sven Joachim).
149 + change RV to XR/xr, to avoid conflict with pre-existing usage in vim,
150 to use RV/rv to denote DA2 and its response (discussion with Bram
152 + add XF flag to xterm+focus so that termcap applications can be aware
153 of terminals which may support focus in/out -TD
154 + use xterm+focus in xterm-p370 and tmux -TD
155 + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
158 + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with
160 + add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset.
161 + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
162 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202
163 + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar).
164 + add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is
165 needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram
168 20221231 6.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
169 + update release notes
170 + regenerate llib-* files.
171 + correct PS vs PE names in bracketed+paste (report by Bram Moolenaar)
175 + add mutex lock/unlock in a few places reported by thread-sanitizer
176 + add/use bracketed+paste to help identify terminals supporting this
177 xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD
180 + install Ada95 sample programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
181 script to invoke those.
184 + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs.
185 + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot").
186 + add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5).
187 + remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5).
190 + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use
192 + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix
193 a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
194 + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections
198 + fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201).
199 + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121).
200 + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html
201 + improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages
204 + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no
205 gprbuild package is available.
206 + updated test packages for Debian.
209 + build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package.
212 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221009
213 + modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression
214 (prompted by discussion with Sam James).
215 + modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable.
218 + improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report
222 + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script
223 with the extra-suffix configure option.
226 + fix another memory-leak in tic.
227 + update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for
228 Ada95 with Arch; as noted in
229 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html
230 there are unaddressed issues.
231 + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding GNU libc suffixes for abi64, abin32,
232 x32 (report by Sven Joachim):
233 + correct ifdef's for _nc_set_read_thread() (patch by Mikhail Korolev,
237 + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test
239 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library
240 directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an
241 install (report by Michal Liszcz).
244 + modify configure/scripts to work around interference by GNU grep 3.8
245 (report by Sam James).
246 + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding variants "gnueabi" and "gnueabihf" to
247 get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson)
250 + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler
251 works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g.,
252 to accommodate a compiler which can be used for either purpose with
253 different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev).
254 + fix another memory-leak in tic.
255 + correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by
256 "tuxway", cf: 20220903).
257 + update config.guess, config.sub
260 + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry
261 from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430).
262 + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by
263 processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing.
264 + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g.,
265 TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3).
268 + amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using
270 + work around musl's nonstandard use of feature test macros by adding
271 a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config
272 files (report by Sam James).
275 + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing
276 if that is configured.
279 + modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and
280 PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398).
281 + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD
282 + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD
285 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
286 libraries and progs directory.
287 + add curses_trace to ifdef's for START_TRACE in test/test.priv.h
288 + update config.guess
291 + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given
293 + amend portability note for delwin in manual page.
294 + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray.
295 + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
296 + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
297 pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol.
298 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
301 + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final
303 + check for non-textfiles to tic.
306 + fixes to build with dietlibc:
307 + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
308 + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock,
309 and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
310 + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found
311 (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner).
312 + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc
313 files seen in Fedora 36+.
316 + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual.
317 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c
318 + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen
322 + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
323 + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
324 + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
327 + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the
328 pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
331 + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities.
332 + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and
334 + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably
335 supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
336 + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
339 + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results
340 for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
341 + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
342 + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
345 + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
346 needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
347 + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to
348 smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
349 + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610,
353 + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
354 merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
355 + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character.
358 + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
359 + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD
360 + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
363 + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD
364 + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype
366 + update config.guess
369 + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
370 + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr().
371 + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
375 + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test
379 + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov).
380 + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
383 + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton).
386 + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and
387 also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
388 + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
389 events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov).
390 + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo
391 syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'.
392 + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table
393 data rather than relying upon its callers.
394 + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure
396 + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
397 + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
400 + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
401 + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir().
402 + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used.
405 + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data
406 (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China).
407 + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is
408 missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379).
409 + add setlocale call to several test-programs.
410 + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
413 + add test/test_unget_wch.c
416 + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly
418 + make description-fields distinct -TD
422 + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD
423 + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD
427 + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
429 + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
430 + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc.
433 + add xterm+acs building-block -TD
434 + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
435 + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD
436 + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
439 + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
440 work around build problems with gnat 12.
441 + update external links in Ada95.html
442 + trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
445 + fix issues found with coverity:
446 + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size
447 + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands
448 + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns
449 + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c
450 + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis.
451 + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding.
452 + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from
456 + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x
457 + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c
460 + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
461 + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
465 + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
466 by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
467 + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
470 + minor updates for test-packages
471 + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
472 case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
473 colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
478 + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
479 + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
481 + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
483 + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
484 infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
487 + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
488 state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
489 Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
490 + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
493 + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
494 curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
497 + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
498 (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
501 + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
502 script to invoke those.
503 + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
506 + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
509 + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
512 + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
513 + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
516 + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
517 + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last
518 allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
520 + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
521 + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
522 ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross
526 + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
527 #1192668, cf: 20211106),
530 + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437).
531 + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
533 + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
534 installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
537 + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
538 + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
539 rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
540 its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
541 + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
542 Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
545 + simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros.
546 + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
547 + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
550 + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
551 + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
552 none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
553 mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
555 20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
556 + update release notes
557 + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD
558 system to use a current ncurses release.
561 + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
562 a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
566 + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in
567 the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci).
570 + build-fix for pmake with libtool.
571 + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
573 + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
574 + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
575 search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
576 (report by Pascal Pignard).
577 + freeze ABI in ".map" files.
580 + implement "+m" option in tabs program.
581 + fill in some details for infoton -TD
582 + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
583 + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
584 + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other
585 than reset/init, e.g., for clear.
586 + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
588 + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp,
589 and smgbp (cf: 20020525).
590 + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
591 special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407).
592 + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and
593 non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
597 + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
598 buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").
599 + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to
600 match the documentation.
601 + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses.
602 + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when
603 those are used, rather than the underlying program's name.
604 + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating
605 tput-specific portions.
606 + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather
608 + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from
612 + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD
613 + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the
615 + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward
616 reference of anonymous struct typedef.
617 + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line.
618 + minor fixes for tset manpage.
621 + adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7
622 + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD
623 + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD
624 + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD
625 + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD
626 + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD
629 + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim,
633 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by
634 kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD
635 + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color
636 manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4.
637 + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black).
638 + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh).
639 + build-fix for compiling link_test
640 + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify
641 use (Debian #993179).
644 + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis
645 by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626).
646 + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list
647 parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list
648 (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request).
649 + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE,
650 e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for
652 + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables.
653 + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
656 + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching
658 + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h
659 + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile
660 + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
661 + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
662 error in an expression (cf: 20201010).
663 + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
664 SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
665 + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
666 by Florian Weimer) -TD
667 + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes.
671 + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369.
674 + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
675 adapted from "distr1" patch.
676 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
679 + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
680 but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
681 + add foot and foot-direct -TD
684 + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
685 ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
686 + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
689 + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
690 against Glink manual -TD
691 + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
693 + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
694 (report by Juergen Pfeifer).
695 + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
696 who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
697 + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
701 + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
702 which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
703 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
705 + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
706 the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
710 + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
711 in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
712 + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
715 + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
716 disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
717 + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
718 + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
719 + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
720 + regenerate man-html documentation.
723 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
725 + trim trailing blanks from files
728 + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
729 + update config.guess
732 + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
733 (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
736 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
737 an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
738 + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
739 by discussion with Peter Farley).
740 + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
741 + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
742 in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
743 report/testcase by Bill Gray)
744 + update config.guess, config.sub
747 + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
748 report/testcase by Bill Gray).
751 + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first
752 calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization
753 is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
755 + fix several warnings from clang --analyze
756 + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers
757 to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav
758 Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
761 + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the
762 build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
763 https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
764 There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec.
765 + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an
766 OpenBSD program which uses the same name.
767 + update config.guess, config.sub
770 + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with
771 _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks
772 configure option is enabled.
773 + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in
776 + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed
777 before linking to the target.
778 + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories.
779 + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports
780 by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
783 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
784 from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
785 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
786 libraries and progs directory.
787 + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
788 (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
791 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and
793 + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
794 + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes.
795 + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
796 leak-checking off later in a set of options.
797 + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
798 accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
799 on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
800 + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
801 called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
802 pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
806 + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh
807 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs,
808 form and menu libraries.
811 + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn
812 keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by
816 + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any
817 extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms
818 capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town,
820 + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of
821 _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
822 + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD
823 + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger)
824 + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that
825 rather than gcc's attribute.
826 + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is
827 a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention.
828 + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
831 + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
832 ".pc" files, from dialog changes.
833 + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
834 + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306)
835 + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
839 + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
840 that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test.
841 + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in
843 + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
846 + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in
848 + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses.
851 + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm
853 + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since
854 the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while
855 this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
857 + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
858 + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
859 + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
860 + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
861 + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
864 + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
866 + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
867 wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
868 + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
869 + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
870 parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
873 + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
874 (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
875 + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
876 option, from xterm #363 -TD
877 + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
878 writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
879 cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
882 + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
883 scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
884 right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
885 + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
886 + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
887 supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
888 + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
889 + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
890 + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
891 blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
894 + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
895 cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
896 the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
897 + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
901 + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
902 (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
903 + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
904 adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
907 + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
908 + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
909 autoconf 2.52.20210105
912 + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
914 + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
915 defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
916 (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
917 + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
918 for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
919 types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
920 + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
921 consistency with other manpages.
924 + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
925 + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
928 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
929 regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
930 + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
934 + improve manual pages for form field-types.
937 + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
938 gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
939 + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
940 + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
942 + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
943 (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
944 + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
945 + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
948 + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
949 + add rep to PuTTY -TD
950 + add putty+keypad -TD
951 + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
952 the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
953 low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
954 + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
955 -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
956 do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
959 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
960 + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
961 (report by Steven Pitman).
964 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
965 + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
966 special case where short extended capability strings were not
967 converted from terminfo to termcap format.
968 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
969 when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
972 + update kitty+common -TD
973 + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
974 + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
975 upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
978 + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
979 before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
980 + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
982 + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
983 ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
984 + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
985 is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
989 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
990 + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
991 Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
992 + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
993 needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
994 (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
995 + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
996 and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
997 parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
999 + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
1000 Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
1003 + improve manpage typography.
1004 + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
1005 nonprintable characters.
1006 + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
1007 as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
1010 + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
1011 + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
1013 + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
1014 discussion with Florian Weimer).
1015 + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
1019 + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
1020 + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
1021 + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
1022 + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
1023 + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
1024 + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
1025 checking consistency with tic.
1028 + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
1029 + regenerate llib-* files.
1030 + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
1031 panel- and user-pointers.
1034 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
1037 + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
1038 curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
1041 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
1042 the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
1043 + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
1044 + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
1047 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
1051 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
1053 + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
1056 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
1060 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
1062 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
1064 + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
1065 to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
1067 > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
1068 + correct icl6404 csr
1073 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
1074 + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
1075 man_db.renames file.
1076 + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
1077 (report by Yue Tai).
1078 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
1079 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
1080 option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
1081 provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
1084 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
1086 + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
1087 + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
1088 using the string-hacks option.
1089 + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
1090 option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
1093 + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
1094 (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
1095 + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
1096 + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
1097 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
1100 + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
1101 of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
1102 + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
1103 AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
1104 --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
1105 fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
1106 (discussion with Keith Marshall).
1107 + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
1108 + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
1109 parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
1113 + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
1114 + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
1115 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
1116 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
1117 reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
1118 + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
1121 + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
1122 "Maarten Anonymous")
1123 + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
1124 + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
1128 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
1130 + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
1131 libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
1132 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
1133 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
1134 + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
1135 the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
1136 + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
1137 + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
1140 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
1142 + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
1143 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
1144 + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
1146 + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
1147 + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
1148 buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
1149 + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
1150 trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
1153 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
1154 the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
1155 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
1156 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
1157 + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
1158 declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
1161 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
1163 + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
1166 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
1167 + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
1168 in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
1172 + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
1173 in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
1174 + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
1175 screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
1176 + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
1177 + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
1180 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
1181 + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
1182 + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1183 + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
1184 + add test/test_tparm.c, for checking tparm changes.
1185 + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
1186 handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
1187 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1188 + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
1189 save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
1190 passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
1191 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1192 + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
1193 string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1196 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
1197 + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
1198 + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
1199 which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
1200 is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
1201 + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
1202 generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
1203 configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
1204 to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
1205 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1206 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1207 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
1208 options into Visual Studio's dialect.
1209 + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
1210 work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
1213 + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
1214 + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
1217 + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
1218 a performance comparison.
1219 + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
1220 use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
1223 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
1224 + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
1225 + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
1226 those to position reports.
1229 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
1230 + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
1233 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
1234 + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
1235 check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
1236 character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
1237 + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
1238 + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
1241 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
1242 (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
1243 + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
1244 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
1247 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
1248 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1249 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1250 + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
1251 + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
1252 C++ preprocessor limitations.
1253 + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
1254 with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
1257 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
1258 + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
1259 builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
1262 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
1263 + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
1264 pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
1265 + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
1266 a corresponding demo of dup_field().
1269 + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
1270 + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
1271 + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
1274 + update copyright notices in test-packages.
1275 + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
1276 + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
1277 by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
1280 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
1281 background character, because it may be used in cases where the
1282 corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
1286 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
1287 which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
1288 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1289 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1290 + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
1291 + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
1292 + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
1293 + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
1294 length array feature.
1295 + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
1296 + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
1297 + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
1298 + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
1299 + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
1300 because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
1301 + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
1304 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
1305 + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
1306 + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
1307 + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
1308 building out-of-tree.
1309 + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
1310 + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
1311 include all of the required headers for the types used.
1314 + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
1315 section as well as documenting error-returns.
1316 + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
1317 + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
1318 FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
1319 + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
1321 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1322 + update release notes
1323 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
1326 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
1327 when cross-compiling.
1328 + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
1329 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
1330 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
1333 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
1334 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
1337 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
1338 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
1339 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
1340 terminfo and termcap names.
1341 + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
1342 + update a few comments about tack 1.07
1343 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
1344 programs for explain.txt
1347 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
1348 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
1349 + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
1350 + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
1352 + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
1353 + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
1356 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
1357 to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
1358 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
1359 + update config.guess, config.sub
1362 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
1363 "work", to help illustrate discussion in
1364 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
1365 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
1368 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
1369 past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
1370 symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
1371 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
1372 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
1373 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
1376 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
1377 work with test-packages.
1378 + improve tracemunch:
1379 + keep track of TERMINAL* values
1380 + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
1381 show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
1382 + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
1383 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
1386 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
1390 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
1391 + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
1394 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
1395 discussion with Nick Black).
1396 + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
1398 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
1401 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
1402 + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
1405 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
1406 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
1408 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
1409 defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
1410 from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
1413 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
1414 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
1415 with old non-curses programs -TD
1416 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
1417 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
1418 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
1422 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
1423 + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
1424 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
1425 + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
1426 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
1429 + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
1430 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
1431 + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
1432 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
1433 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
1434 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
1437 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
1438 with address-sanitizer.
1439 + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
1440 treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
1441 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
1444 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
1445 input string is shorter than expected.
1446 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
1447 + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
1448 + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
1449 syntax (cf: 980530).
1452 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
1453 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
1454 + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
1455 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
1456 _nc_find_name_entry.
1457 > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
1458 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
1459 + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
1460 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
1461 mapping (cf: 20060415);
1462 + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
1463 overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
1466 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
1470 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
1471 hack which differed between those files.
1472 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
1473 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
1474 test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
1475 EINTR (cf: 20180922)
1478 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
1479 the screen's borders.
1480 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
1484 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
1487 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
1488 allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
1490 + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
1491 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
1492 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
1495 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
1496 noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
1500 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1503 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
1504 details where it still differed from SVr4.
1505 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1508 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1511 + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
1512 the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
1514 + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
1515 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
1516 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
1517 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
1518 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
1519 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
1522 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1523 + more documentation updates based on tctest.
1526 + fix a few coverity warnings.
1527 + documentation updates based on tctest.
1530 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
1531 + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
1533 + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
1534 (report by Sven Joachim).
1537 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
1538 possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
1539 terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
1540 + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
1544 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
1547 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
1548 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
1549 + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
1550 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
1552 + add ms-terminal -TD
1553 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
1556 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
1557 Edition versions of the tabs utility.
1558 + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
1559 in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
1560 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
1562 + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
1563 data for the result from getenv().
1564 + update config.guess, config.sub
1567 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
1568 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1571 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
1572 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
1573 to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
1574 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1575 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
1576 + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
1577 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
1580 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
1581 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
1582 + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
1586 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
1587 (report by Vincent Huisman).
1590 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
1591 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
1592 + update terminator entry -TD
1593 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
1594 + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
1595 + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
1598 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
1599 + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
1600 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
1601 + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
1602 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
1603 Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
1604 + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
1605 number of parameters.
1608 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
1609 (report by Pavel Stehule).
1610 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
1611 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
1614 + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
1615 infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
1616 but different types.
1619 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
1622 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
1623 + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
1624 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
1625 + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
1626 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
1629 + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
1630 split-up Caps-files.
1631 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
1634 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
1635 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
1636 + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
1637 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
1638 + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
1639 + check for missing feature of locale.h
1640 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
1641 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
1642 + update config.guess, config.sub
1645 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
1646 + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
1647 those in compilable form.
1648 + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
1649 in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
1650 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1653 + regenerate llib-* files.
1654 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
1655 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
1656 an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
1657 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
1658 + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
1659 which did not become accepted.
1662 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
1663 capabilities in tic.
1664 + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
1665 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
1668 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
1669 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
1670 user-defined capabilities.
1671 + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
1672 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
1675 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
1676 + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
1677 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
1678 xt, tbc and hts as clues.
1679 + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
1680 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
1683 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
1684 + add test/demo_tabs program.
1687 + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
1688 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
1691 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
1692 with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
1693 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
1694 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
1695 to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
1696 configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
1697 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
1700 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
1701 "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
1702 + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
1703 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
1704 + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
1705 being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
1706 Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
1709 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
1711 + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
1712 on some of the BSDs.
1713 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
1714 + minor improvements to manpage typography.
1715 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
1717 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
1718 init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
1719 extended_color_content
1720 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
1721 return values from the tested functions.
1722 + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
1724 + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
1725 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
1727 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
1728 warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
1731 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
1733 + add nsterm-direct -TD
1734 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
1735 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
1736 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
1739 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
1740 building test-packages for Arch.
1741 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
1742 that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
1743 packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
1744 + update config.guess, config.sub
1747 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
1748 + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
1750 + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
1751 discussion with Bryan Christ).
1752 + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
1753 + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
1754 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
1755 Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
1759 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
1760 + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
1761 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
1762 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
1763 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
1764 + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
1765 + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
1766 _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
1767 + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
1768 supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
1769 Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
1770 could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
1773 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
1774 curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
1775 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
1778 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
1779 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
1780 different character pages.
1781 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1782 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1785 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
1788 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
1789 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
1790 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
1792 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
1793 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
1794 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
1795 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
1796 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
1797 (report by Tomas Janousek).
1800 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
1801 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
1802 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
1803 the compiled-in search list.
1806 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
1808 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1809 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1812 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
1813 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
1816 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
1817 from the infocmp -Q option.
1818 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
1819 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
1820 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
1821 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
1822 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
1825 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
1826 to make it an absolute path.
1829 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
1830 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
1831 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
1834 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
1835 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
1836 + add alias n7900 -TD
1837 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
1838 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
1839 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
1840 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
1841 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
1842 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
1843 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
1846 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
1850 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
1851 if the terminal were resized.
1852 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
1853 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
1854 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
1855 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
1858 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
1859 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
1860 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
1861 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
1862 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
1863 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
1864 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
1865 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
1866 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
1867 implementations of sysconf().
1870 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
1872 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
1874 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
1877 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
1878 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
1879 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
1881 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
1882 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
1883 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
1887 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
1888 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
1889 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
1890 install (Debian #903790):
1891 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
1893 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
1894 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
1895 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
1898 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
1899 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
1900 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
1901 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1904 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
1905 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
1906 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1909 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1910 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
1911 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
1912 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
1915 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
1916 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
1919 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1920 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
1922 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
1923 empty (Debian #902630).
1926 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
1927 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
1928 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
1929 (Nicholas Marriott).
1930 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
1931 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
1933 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
1936 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
1937 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
1938 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
1939 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
1940 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
1941 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
1942 CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1943 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1944 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1947 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
1948 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
1949 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
1950 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
1951 use of vsscanf and setenv.
1952 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
1956 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
1957 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
1959 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
1960 and vw_scanw, respectively.
1963 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
1964 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
1967 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
1968 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
1969 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
1971 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
1972 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
1973 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
1976 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1977 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
1978 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
1979 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
1980 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
1981 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
1982 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
1985 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
1986 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
1987 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
1990 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
1992 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
1993 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
1994 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
1995 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
1996 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1997 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
1998 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
1999 for escaping regular expressions.
2002 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
2004 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
2005 (report by Leon Winter).
2006 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
2007 unfocus_current_field (form);
2008 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
2009 (patch by Leon Winter).
2012 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
2013 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
2014 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
2015 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
2016 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
2017 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
2018 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
2019 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
2022 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
2023 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
2024 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
2025 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
2026 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
2027 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
2028 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
2029 values, e.g., keyname().
2032 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
2033 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
2034 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
2037 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
2038 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
2039 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
2040 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
2041 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
2044 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
2046 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
2047 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
2048 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
2049 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
2050 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
2054 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
2055 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
2056 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
2057 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
2058 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
2059 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
2060 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
2061 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
2062 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
2063 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
2064 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
2065 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
2066 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
2067 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
2068 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
2071 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
2072 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
2073 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
2074 compounded by repair in 20180121.
2075 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
2076 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
2077 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
2080 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
2081 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
2082 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
2083 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
2084 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
2087 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
2088 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
2089 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2090 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
2091 was needed, was standardized long ago.
2092 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
2093 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
2094 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
2098 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
2099 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
2100 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
2101 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
2102 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
2105 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
2107 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2110 + updated release notes
2111 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
2112 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
2114 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
2116 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
2117 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
2118 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
2119 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
2120 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
2121 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
2122 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
2123 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
2124 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
2125 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
2126 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
2127 + add iterm2-direct -TD
2128 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
2129 + add mlterm-direct -TD
2130 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
2132 20180121 pre-release
2134 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
2135 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
2136 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
2138 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
2139 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
2140 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
2141 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
2142 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
2143 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
2144 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
2145 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
2146 direct-colors are wanted -TD
2147 + add vte-direct -TD
2148 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
2150 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
2151 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
2152 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
2153 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
2154 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
2155 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
2156 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
2157 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
2159 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
2160 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
2161 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
2162 ncurses library work as expected.
2163 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
2164 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
2165 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
2166 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
2167 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
2168 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
2169 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
2170 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
2171 wide-character configuration to 32768.
2174 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
2175 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
2176 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
2177 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
2178 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
2179 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
2181 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
2184 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
2185 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
2187 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
2188 as possible default values.
2189 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
2190 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
2191 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
2192 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
2193 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
2194 configured to access it via weak symbols.
2195 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
2196 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
2198 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
2199 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
2200 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
2201 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
2202 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
2203 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
2204 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
2205 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2208 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
2209 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
2210 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
2211 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
2212 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2213 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
2214 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
2216 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
2217 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
2220 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
2222 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
2223 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
2224 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
2225 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
2226 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
2227 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
2229 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
2232 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
2233 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
2234 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
2235 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
2238 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
2239 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
2240 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
2242 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
2243 function in link_test.c
2244 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
2245 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
2246 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
2247 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
2248 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
2251 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
2253 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
2254 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
2255 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
2256 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
2257 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
2258 + it lacks the use_env() function.
2259 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
2260 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
2261 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
2262 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
2263 + additional manpage cleanup.
2264 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2265 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2268 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
2269 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
2270 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
2271 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
2272 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
2273 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
2274 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
2276 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
2277 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
2278 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
2279 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
2280 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
2281 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
2282 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
2283 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
2284 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
2285 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
2289 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
2290 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
2291 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
2292 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
2295 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
2297 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
2298 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
2299 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
2302 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
2303 (report by Midolikawa H).
2304 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
2305 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
2306 drawing character is drawn.
2307 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
2308 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
2309 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
2310 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
2311 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
2312 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
2313 directory-tree terminal databases.
2314 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
2315 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
2316 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
2319 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
2320 than in the test-program.
2321 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
2322 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
2323 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
2326 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
2327 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
2328 + implement page up/down commands.
2329 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
2331 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
2332 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
2333 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
2335 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
2336 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
2337 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
2338 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
2339 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
2340 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
2343 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
2344 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
2345 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
2346 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
2347 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
2348 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
2349 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
2350 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
2352 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2355 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
2356 Solaris xpg4 curses.
2357 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
2358 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
2359 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
2361 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
2362 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
2363 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
2364 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
2365 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
2366 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
2367 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
2368 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
2372 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
2373 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
2374 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
2377 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
2378 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
2381 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
2382 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
2383 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
2384 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
2385 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
2386 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
2387 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
2388 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
2389 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
2390 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit
2391 checks in some libraries.
2392 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
2393 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
2394 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
2395 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
2398 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
2399 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
2400 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
2401 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
2405 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
2408 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2409 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
2410 over missing/cancelled values.
2411 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
2413 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
2414 cancelled string capabilities.
2415 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
2416 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
2417 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2418 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
2419 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
2420 as input (Redhat #1484274).
2421 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
2422 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
2424 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
2425 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
2426 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
2427 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
2428 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
2429 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
2431 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
2435 + update "iterm" entry -TD
2436 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2437 + regenerate llib-* files.
2438 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2439 + improve picsmap test-program:
2440 + reduce memory used for tsearch
2441 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
2442 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
2444 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
2445 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
2446 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
2447 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
2450 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
2452 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
2453 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
2455 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
2456 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
2457 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
2458 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2459 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
2460 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
2461 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
2462 current screen is marked for clearing.
2463 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
2464 loading image files.
2465 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
2466 on demand up to the existing limit.
2467 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
2468 improve color_content().
2469 + improve picsmap test-program:
2470 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
2471 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
2472 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
2473 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2474 + add "-l" option for logging
2475 + add "-d" option for debugging
2476 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
2478 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
2479 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2480 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2483 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
2484 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
2485 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
2486 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
2488 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
2489 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
2490 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
2491 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
2492 parameters for a capability and the actual.
2493 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
2494 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
2495 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
2496 alternate character set is enabled.
2497 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
2498 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
2499 tack for memory-leak checking.
2500 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
2501 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
2502 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
2503 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
2504 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
2505 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
2506 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
2507 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
2508 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
2509 extended capability arrays.
2510 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
2513 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
2514 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
2515 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
2516 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
2517 term-driver configuration.
2518 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
2519 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
2520 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
2521 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
2522 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
2523 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
2526 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
2527 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
2528 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
2529 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
2531 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
2532 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
2535 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
2536 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
2539 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
2540 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
2541 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
2542 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
2543 configuration; none is needed.
2544 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
2545 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
2546 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
2547 not work (cf: 20160213).
2548 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
2549 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
2550 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
2551 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
2552 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
2553 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2554 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
2555 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
2556 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
2557 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
2558 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
2559 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
2560 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
2561 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
2562 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2563 (report by Allen Hewes).
2566 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
2567 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
2568 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2569 (report by Allen Hewes).
2570 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
2571 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
2572 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
2573 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
2574 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
2575 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
2576 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
2577 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
2578 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
2581 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
2582 (report by Allen Hewes).
2583 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
2584 to help with leak checking.
2585 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
2587 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
2588 cannot be initialized.
2591 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
2592 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
2593 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
2596 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
2598 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
2599 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
2600 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2601 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
2602 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
2605 + improved test/picsmap.c:
2606 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
2607 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
2608 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
2611 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
2612 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
2613 related files can be checked with lintian.
2614 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
2617 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
2618 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
2619 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
2620 changed (cf: 20170311).
2621 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
2624 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
2625 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
2626 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
2627 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
2628 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
2629 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
2630 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
2631 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
2634 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
2635 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
2636 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
2637 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
2638 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
2639 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
2640 for better compatibility with other implementations.
2641 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
2642 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
2643 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
2644 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2645 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2648 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
2649 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
2651 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
2652 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
2653 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
2654 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
2655 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
2656 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
2657 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
2658 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
2659 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
2660 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
2661 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
2662 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
2663 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
2664 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
2665 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
2666 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
2667 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
2668 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
2669 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
2670 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
2671 preference to "%02" on output.
2672 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
2673 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
2674 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
2677 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
2678 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
2679 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
2681 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
2682 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
2683 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
2684 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
2685 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
2686 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2689 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
2691 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
2692 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2693 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
2697 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
2698 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
2699 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
2700 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
2701 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
2702 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
2703 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
2704 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
2705 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
2707 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
2708 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
2709 calls to get original tty-modes.
2710 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
2711 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
2712 null, as documented.
2713 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
2714 reduce compiler warnings.
2715 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
2716 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
2717 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
2718 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
2719 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
2720 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
2721 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
2722 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
2723 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
2724 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
2725 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
2728 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
2729 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
2730 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
2732 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
2733 called (report by "Kau").
2734 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
2737 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
2738 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
2739 rather than using def_prog_mode().
2740 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
2741 externals that are used by tack.
2742 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
2743 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
2744 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
2746 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
2747 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2750 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
2751 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
2752 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
2753 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
2754 terminal emulators -TD
2755 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
2757 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
2758 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
2759 8-bit limit on colors
2760 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
2761 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
2762 free_pair() functions
2763 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
2766 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
2767 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
2768 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
2769 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
2771 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
2774 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
2777 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2778 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
2779 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
2780 treated as only absent.
2781 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
2782 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
2783 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
2786 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
2787 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
2788 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
2789 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
2790 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
2791 --enable-sp-funcs option.
2792 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
2793 without modifying API/ABI.
2794 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
2795 similar options for the other libraries.
2798 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
2800 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
2801 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
2802 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
2803 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
2804 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
2805 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
2806 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
2807 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
2810 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
2811 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
2812 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
2813 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
2814 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2815 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
2816 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
2819 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
2820 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
2821 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
2822 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
2823 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
2824 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
2825 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
2827 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
2828 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
2831 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
2832 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
2833 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
2834 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
2835 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
2839 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
2840 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
2841 either reset- or init-strings.
2842 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
2843 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
2844 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
2845 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
2846 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
2847 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
2848 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
2849 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
2850 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
2851 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
2852 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
2853 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
2856 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
2857 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
2858 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
2859 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
2860 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
2861 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
2862 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
2863 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
2865 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
2866 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
2867 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
2868 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
2870 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2871 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2874 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
2875 (patch by Leon Winter).
2876 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
2877 patch by Mihail Konev).
2878 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
2879 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
2883 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
2884 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
2885 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
2886 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
2887 did not work after changes in 20130112.
2890 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
2891 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
2892 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
2893 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
2894 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
2895 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
2897 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
2900 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
2901 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
2904 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
2906 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
2907 reverse-video control -TD
2908 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
2909 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
2910 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
2911 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
2912 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
2913 video escape without using a delay.
2914 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
2915 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
2919 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
2920 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
2921 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
2922 by various discussions including
2923 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
2926 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
2927 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
2928 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
2929 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
2932 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
2933 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
2936 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
2939 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
2940 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
2941 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
2942 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
2943 not optional in tput.
2944 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
2945 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
2946 for transformed names.
2947 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
2948 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
2951 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
2952 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
2953 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
2954 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
2956 + regenerate llib-* files.
2957 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2958 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2961 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
2962 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
2963 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
2966 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
2967 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
2968 a given line-length.
2969 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
2970 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
2973 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
2974 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
2975 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
2978 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
2979 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
2982 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
2984 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
2985 page (patch by Leon Winter).
2986 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
2987 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
2988 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
2989 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
2990 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
2993 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
2995 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
2996 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
2998 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
2999 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
3000 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
3001 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
3005 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
3007 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
3009 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
3010 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
3011 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
3012 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
3013 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
3014 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
3015 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3016 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3019 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
3020 modes by sharing functions with tset.
3021 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
3022 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
3023 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
3024 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
3026 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
3029 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
3030 handle a case of "configure && make install".
3031 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
3032 in sed (Debian #818067).
3035 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
3036 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
3037 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
3038 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
3040 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
3041 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
3045 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
3046 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
3047 output or error are redirected.
3048 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
3052 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
3053 redirected to a file or pipe.
3054 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
3057 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
3059 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
3060 for special keys, based on xterm.
3063 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
3066 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
3067 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
3068 work (report by Sven Joachim).
3071 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
3072 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
3073 to make it more readable.
3076 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
3077 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
3078 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
3079 better testing of function-keys.
3080 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
3081 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
3082 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
3083 that could be returned -TD
3084 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
3087 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
3088 + add test/list_keys.c
3091 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
3092 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
3095 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
3096 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
3097 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
3098 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
3099 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
3100 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
3101 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
3102 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
3103 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
3104 cannot combine -c and -o options.
3107 + regenerate HTML manpages.
3108 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
3109 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
3110 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
3111 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
3112 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
3113 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
3116 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
3117 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
3119 + modify test/ncurses.c:
3120 + check return-value of putwin
3121 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
3122 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
3123 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
3126 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
3127 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
3128 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
3129 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
3133 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
3134 PIC builds documented in
3135 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
3136 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
3137 due to program-transformation configure options.
3138 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
3141 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
3142 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
3145 + regenerate HTML manpages.
3146 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
3150 + regenerate HTML manpages.
3151 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
3152 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
3153 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
3154 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
3155 can handle the event.
3158 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
3159 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
3160 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
3161 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
3164 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
3165 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
3166 as responding to window size-changes.
3169 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
3170 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
3173 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
3174 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
3175 in case weak symbols are used.
3176 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
3177 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
3179 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
3180 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
3181 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3182 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3185 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
3186 in threaded configuration.
3187 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
3188 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
3191 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
3192 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
3193 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
3197 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
3198 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
3199 unwanted blank lines.
3202 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
3203 (report by Corey Minyard).
3204 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
3207 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
3208 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
3209 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
3210 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
3212 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
3213 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
3214 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
3216 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
3217 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
3220 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
3221 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
3222 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
3223 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
3226 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
3227 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
3228 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
3231 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
3232 with James Crippen).
3233 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
3235 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
3236 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
3239 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
3240 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3241 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
3242 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
3243 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
3244 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
3245 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
3246 drawing characters as double-width.
3249 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
3250 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3251 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
3252 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
3253 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
3254 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
3255 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
3256 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
3260 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
3262 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
3264 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
3265 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
3266 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
3267 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
3268 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
3271 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
3272 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
3273 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
3274 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
3277 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
3278 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
3279 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
3280 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
3281 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
3283 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
3284 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
3285 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
3286 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
3287 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
3290 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
3291 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
3292 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
3293 install time (cf: 20150822).
3294 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
3295 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
3296 empty "local" section.
3297 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
3298 to incorrect attribute-masking.
3301 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
3302 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
3303 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
3304 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
3305 did not display well.
3306 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
3307 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
3308 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
3309 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
3310 Normand, Novell #946048).
3311 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
3312 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
3313 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
3314 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
3315 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
3316 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
3317 Internet Archive -TD
3318 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3319 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3322 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
3323 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
3324 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
3325 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
3326 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
3327 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
3328 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
3329 + support building with libtool on OS/2
3330 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
3331 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
3334 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
3335 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
3336 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
3337 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
3339 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
3340 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
3341 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
3344 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
3346 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
3347 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
3350 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
3352 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
3353 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
3354 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
3355 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
3358 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
3360 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
3361 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
3362 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
3363 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
3364 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
3365 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
3367 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
3370 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
3372 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
3373 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
3374 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
3376 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
3377 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
3380 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
3382 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
3383 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
3384 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
3385 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
3386 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
3390 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
3391 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
3392 + update release notes in INSTALL.
3393 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
3396 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
3397 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
3398 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
3400 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3403 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
3404 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
3405 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
3406 more than 200 snapshots.
3407 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
3411 + updated llib-* files.
3412 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
3413 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
3415 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3416 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
3417 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
3418 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
3419 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
3420 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
3421 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
3424 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
3425 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
3426 curs_initscr.3x page.
3427 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
3428 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
3429 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
3431 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
3432 e.g., ncursestw library.
3435 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
3436 configuration of ncurses6.
3437 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
3438 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
3439 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
3440 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
3441 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
3444 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
3445 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
3446 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
3449 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
3451 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
3452 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
3453 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
3454 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
3455 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
3456 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
3457 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
3458 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
3459 setupterm and restartterm functions.
3460 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
3461 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
3462 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
3466 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
3467 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
3468 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
3469 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
3470 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
3471 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
3472 discussion with Sven Joachim).
3473 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
3475 20150606 pre-release
3476 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
3477 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
3478 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
3479 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
3480 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
3481 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
3482 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
3483 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
3484 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
3485 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
3486 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
3487 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
3488 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
3489 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
3492 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
3493 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
3494 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
3495 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
3496 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
3497 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
3498 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
3499 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
3502 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
3503 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
3504 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
3505 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
3506 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
3508 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
3509 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
3512 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
3513 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
3514 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
3515 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
3517 + regenerate html manpages.
3518 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
3519 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
3520 Stack Overflow forum):
3523 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
3524 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
3525 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
3526 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
3527 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
3531 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
3532 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
3533 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
3534 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
3535 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
3537 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
3538 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3539 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
3540 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
3541 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
3542 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
3544 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
3545 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
3546 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
3547 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
3548 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
3549 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
3551 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
3552 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
3554 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
3555 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
3557 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
3558 the ncurses library aside from headers.
3559 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
3560 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
3561 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
3562 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
3563 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3564 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3567 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
3568 (report by Todd M Lewis).
3569 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
3570 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
3571 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
3572 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
3573 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
3574 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
3576 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3577 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
3578 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3579 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
3580 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
3581 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
3582 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
3585 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
3586 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
3587 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
3588 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
3589 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
3590 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
3591 with the shared libraries.
3592 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
3593 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
3594 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
3595 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
3596 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
3597 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
3598 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
3599 inherit into new windows.
3602 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
3603 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
3604 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
3605 readonly text segment.
3608 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
3609 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
3612 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
3613 the extended putwin/getwin.
3614 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
3616 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
3620 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
3621 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
3622 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
3623 for a magic code at the beginning:
3624 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
3627 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
3629 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
3630 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
3633 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
3634 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
3635 (report by Grady Martin).
3638 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
3639 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
3640 the wide-character libraries.
3641 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
3643 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
3644 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
3647 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
3648 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
3649 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
3653 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
3654 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
3657 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
3658 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
3659 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
3660 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
3661 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
3664 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
3665 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
3666 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
3669 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
3670 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
3671 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
3673 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
3674 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
3675 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
3676 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
3677 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
3678 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
3679 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
3680 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
3681 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
3682 (report by Pavel Balaev).
3685 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
3686 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
3687 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
3688 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
3689 variations in ABI 6.
3692 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
3693 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
3697 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
3701 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
3702 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
3703 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
3704 the ABI 5 libraries.
3705 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
3706 regenerate html-manpages.
3709 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
3710 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
3712 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
3713 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
3714 package for ncurses6.
3715 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
3716 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
3717 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
3718 in the corresponding ".map" files.
3719 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
3720 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
3724 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
3725 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
3726 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
3727 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
3728 gcc introduced here:
3729 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
3730 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
3731 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
3732 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
3735 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
3736 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
3737 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
3738 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
3739 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
3742 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
3743 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
3744 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
3745 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
3746 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
3747 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
3748 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
3752 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
3753 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
3757 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
3758 msys2 configuration.
3761 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
3762 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
3763 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
3764 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
3765 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
3767 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
3768 (report by Mike Gran).
3771 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
3772 demonstration of its limitations.
3773 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
3774 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
3775 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
3776 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
3777 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
3778 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
3779 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
3781 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
3782 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
3785 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
3786 + implement flash in win_driver.c
3787 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
3789 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
3790 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
3791 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
3792 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
3793 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
3794 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
3795 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
3796 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
3799 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
3800 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
3801 some older cross-compiler environments.
3802 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
3803 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
3804 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
3805 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
3806 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
3807 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
3808 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
3809 + update config.sub from
3810 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3813 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
3814 C++ cross-compilers.
3815 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
3818 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
3820 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
3823 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
3824 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
3825 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
3828 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
3829 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
3833 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
3834 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
3835 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
3838 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
3839 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
3840 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
3841 + regenerated html manpages.
3842 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
3843 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
3844 which reverses cause/effect.
3845 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
3846 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
3847 + fixes for win_driver.c:
3848 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
3853 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
3854 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
3855 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
3856 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
3858 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
3859 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
3860 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
3861 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
3865 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
3866 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
3867 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
3868 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
3869 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
3870 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
3871 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
3872 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
3873 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
3876 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
3877 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
3878 options, from xterm changes.
3881 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
3882 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
3886 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
3887 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
3890 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
3891 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
3892 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
3893 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
3894 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
3895 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
3896 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
3899 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
3900 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
3901 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
3902 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
3903 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
3904 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
3905 providing directly comparable screens.
3906 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
3909 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
3911 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
3912 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
3913 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
3914 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
3915 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
3916 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
3917 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
3920 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
3921 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3922 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
3923 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
3924 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
3927 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
3928 overlap with sgr functionality.
3929 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
3930 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
3931 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
3932 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
3933 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
3934 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
3935 older ncurses than 20131207.
3936 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
3937 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
3938 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
3939 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
3940 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
3943 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
3944 environment variable.
3945 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
3946 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
3947 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
3948 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
3949 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
3950 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
3951 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
3952 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
3953 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
3954 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
3955 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
3956 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
3957 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
3958 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
3960 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
3962 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
3963 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
3964 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
3966 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
3967 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
3968 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
3969 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
3970 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
3971 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
3972 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
3974 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
3976 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
3977 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
3978 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
3979 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
3980 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
3981 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
3982 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
3983 to be consecutive anyway.
3984 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
3985 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
3986 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
3987 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
3990 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
3991 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
3992 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
3995 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
3996 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
3997 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
3998 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4001 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
4003 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
4004 simplify later merging:
4005 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
4006 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
4007 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
4008 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
4009 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
4013 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4014 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
4017 + modify configure script:
4018 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
4019 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
4020 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
4021 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
4022 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
4023 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
4024 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
4025 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
4026 "#win32console", and
4027 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
4028 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
4031 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
4032 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
4033 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
4034 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
4035 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
4036 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
4040 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
4043 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
4044 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
4045 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
4046 + add terminology entry -TD
4047 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
4048 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
4051 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
4052 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
4053 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
4054 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
4055 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
4059 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
4060 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
4061 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
4062 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
4063 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
4066 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
4069 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
4070 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
4071 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
4075 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
4076 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
4077 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
4078 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
4079 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
4080 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
4082 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
4083 html emitted by docbook.
4086 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
4087 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
4088 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
4089 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
4092 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
4093 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
4094 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
4095 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
4096 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
4097 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
4100 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
4101 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
4102 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
4103 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
4106 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
4107 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
4110 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
4112 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
4115 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
4116 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
4117 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
4118 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
4120 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
4122 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
4123 + updated llib-l* files.
4126 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
4127 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
4131 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
4132 recognized by clang.
4135 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
4136 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
4137 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
4138 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
4139 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
4140 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
4141 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
4142 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
4143 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
4144 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
4145 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
4146 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
4148 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
4150 + update config.sub from
4151 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
4154 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
4157 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
4158 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
4159 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
4160 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
4162 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
4165 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
4166 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
4167 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
4168 them more consistent with other packages.
4171 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
4172 compiling ncurses-examples.
4173 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
4176 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
4179 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
4180 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
4181 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
4182 cross-compiles to MinGW.
4183 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
4187 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
4188 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
4192 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
4193 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
4195 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
4197 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
4198 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
4199 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
4200 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
4201 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
4204 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
4205 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
4206 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
4209 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
4211 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
4212 before/after Debian #700177.
4213 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
4214 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
4216 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
4217 of sort, improving portability.
4218 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
4219 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4220 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
4223 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
4224 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
4226 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
4227 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
4228 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
4231 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
4232 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
4233 introduced by Debian #700177.
4234 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
4235 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
4238 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
4239 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
4241 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
4242 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
4243 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
4246 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
4247 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
4249 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
4250 cross-compile support packages.
4251 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
4254 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
4255 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
4256 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
4257 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
4258 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
4259 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
4260 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
4261 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
4262 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
4263 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
4264 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
4265 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
4268 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
4269 initialization of cur_term.
4272 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
4273 + minor compiler-warning fixes
4276 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
4277 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
4278 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
4279 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
4280 --enable-auto-import flag.
4281 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
4285 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
4286 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
4287 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
4288 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
4289 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
4291 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
4292 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
4293 (patch by Eric Raymond).
4296 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
4297 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
4298 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
4300 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
4301 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
4302 not printing the full pathname of the program.
4303 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
4304 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
4305 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
4308 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
4309 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
4311 + add test/dots_termcap.c
4312 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
4313 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
4314 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
4315 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
4316 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
4317 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
4318 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
4319 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
4320 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
4322 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
4323 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
4326 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
4327 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
4328 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
4329 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
4330 the left margin of the display.
4331 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
4332 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
4333 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
4334 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
4337 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
4338 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
4339 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
4340 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
4341 + regenerated html manpages.
4342 + update doctype used for html documentation.
4345 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
4346 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
4347 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
4348 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
4349 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
4350 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
4353 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4354 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
4355 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
4356 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
4357 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
4360 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
4361 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
4364 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
4365 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
4366 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4367 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
4368 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
4370 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
4371 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4372 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
4373 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4376 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
4377 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
4378 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
4379 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
4381 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
4383 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
4385 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
4388 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
4392 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
4393 (report by Christian Ebert).
4394 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
4395 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
4396 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
4399 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
4400 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
4401 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
4402 add bold for consistency with sgr,
4403 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
4404 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
4405 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
4406 by Benjamin Sittler)
4407 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
4408 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
4409 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
4410 line split after "%;".
4411 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
4412 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
4415 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
4416 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
4417 + regenerated html manpages.
4418 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
4419 + updated some autoconf macros:
4420 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
4421 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
4422 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
4423 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
4424 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
4425 configuration (Redhat #911540).
4426 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
4427 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
4430 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
4431 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
4433 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
4434 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
4436 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
4437 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
4438 of raw input in MinGW port.
4441 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
4442 + update config.guess, config.sub
4445 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
4447 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
4449 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
4450 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
4451 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
4452 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
4453 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4454 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
4455 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
4457 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
4458 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
4461 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
4462 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
4464 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
4465 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
4466 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
4469 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
4470 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
4471 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
4474 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
4475 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
4476 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
4477 help reduce flicker.
4478 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
4479 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
4480 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
4481 by Dennis Grevenstein).
4482 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
4483 Dennis Grevenstein).
4484 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
4485 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
4486 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
4489 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4490 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
4491 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
4492 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
4493 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
4494 + improve error-checking in copywin
4495 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
4496 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
4497 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
4498 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
4499 matching capability names.
4500 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
4501 applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2
4502 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
4505 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
4506 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
4507 are unused in the current driver model.
4508 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
4510 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
4511 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
4512 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
4513 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
4516 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
4517 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
4519 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
4520 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
4521 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
4522 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
4523 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
4526 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
4527 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
4528 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
4532 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
4534 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
4535 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
4537 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
4538 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
4539 wide-character which can be used.
4542 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
4543 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
4544 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
4545 by Erwin Waterlander).
4546 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
4547 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4548 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
4549 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
4550 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
4551 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
4555 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
4556 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
4557 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
4558 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
4559 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
4560 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4561 + remove a few redundant checks.
4562 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
4564 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
4565 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
4566 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
4567 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
4569 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
4570 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
4571 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
4575 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
4576 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
4577 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
4581 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
4582 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
4583 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4584 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
4587 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4588 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
4589 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
4590 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
4591 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
4592 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
4593 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
4594 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
4596 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
4597 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
4598 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
4599 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
4602 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
4603 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
4604 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
4606 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
4607 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
4608 libraries or executables.
4611 + realign these related pages:
4616 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
4617 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
4618 (report by Reuben Thomas).
4619 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
4620 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
4621 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
4622 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
4623 based on testing with tack -TD
4624 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
4625 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
4628 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
4630 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
4631 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
4632 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
4635 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
4639 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
4640 (patch by Christian Persch).
4643 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
4645 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
4646 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
4647 has used that for a while.
4648 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
4649 for experimental use.
4650 + remove unused configure macros.
4651 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
4652 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
4653 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
4654 + update config.guess, config.sub
4657 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
4658 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
4659 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
4660 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
4661 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
4662 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
4663 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
4666 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
4667 to help with MinGW port.
4670 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
4672 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
4675 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
4678 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
4679 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
4680 might not be allocated.
4681 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
4684 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
4685 initial screen-sizes.
4686 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
4687 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
4691 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
4692 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
4696 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
4697 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
4698 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
4700 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
4701 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
4704 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
4705 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
4706 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
4707 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
4708 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
4709 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
4710 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
4714 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
4715 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
4716 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
4717 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
4718 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
4719 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
4720 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
4721 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
4725 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
4726 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
4727 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
4728 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
4729 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
4730 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
4733 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
4737 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
4739 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
4741 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
4742 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
4743 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
4744 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
4745 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
4746 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
4749 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
4751 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
4752 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
4753 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
4755 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
4756 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
4759 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
4760 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
4761 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
4764 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
4765 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
4767 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
4768 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
4770 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
4771 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
4774 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
4776 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
4777 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
4778 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
4779 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
4780 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
4781 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
4784 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
4785 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
4786 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
4787 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
4788 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
4789 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
4790 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
4791 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
4792 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
4794 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
4795 analysis by Martin Husemann).
4796 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
4797 Onno van der Linden).
4800 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
4802 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
4804 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
4805 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
4808 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
4809 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
4810 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
4811 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
4812 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
4813 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
4814 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
4817 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
4818 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
4819 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
4820 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
4821 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
4822 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
4823 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
4824 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
4825 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
4826 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
4827 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
4828 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
4829 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
4830 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
4831 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
4834 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
4835 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
4836 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
4837 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
4838 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
4839 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
4840 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
4841 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
4842 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
4843 are interpreted as key definitions.
4844 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
4845 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
4849 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
4850 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
4851 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
4852 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
4853 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
4854 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
4855 as building-blocks -TD
4856 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
4859 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
4860 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
4861 title is a status-line. -TD
4862 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
4863 of ordering and overrides -TD
4864 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
4865 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
4866 used in that file -TD
4869 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
4870 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
4871 definable capabilities.
4872 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
4873 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
4874 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
4875 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
4876 embedded in the description.
4877 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
4878 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
4879 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
4880 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
4881 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
4882 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
4885 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
4886 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
4887 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
4888 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
4889 Nicolas Boulenguez).
4890 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
4891 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
4892 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
4895 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
4896 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
4897 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
4898 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
4899 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
4900 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
4903 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
4904 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
4905 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
4907 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
4908 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
4909 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
4910 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
4913 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
4914 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
4915 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
4918 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
4919 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
4920 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
4922 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
4923 calls to setupterm().
4924 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
4926 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
4927 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
4928 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
4930 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
4934 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
4937 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
4939 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
4940 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
4941 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
4942 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
4943 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
4944 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
4946 + update config.guess, config.sub
4949 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
4950 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
4951 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
4952 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
4953 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
4954 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
4955 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
4956 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
4957 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
4960 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
4961 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
4962 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
4963 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
4964 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
4965 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
4966 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
4967 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
4968 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
4969 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
4970 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
4971 Linux versus most other systems.
4974 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
4978 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
4979 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
4980 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
4981 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
4982 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
4983 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
4984 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
4985 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
4986 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
4987 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
4988 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
4989 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
4990 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
4991 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
4994 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
4996 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
4998 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
4999 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
5000 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
5001 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
5004 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
5006 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
5007 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
5008 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
5009 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
5010 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
5012 + regenerated html manpages.
5015 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
5016 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
5017 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
5018 + change recommended regular expression library.
5019 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration.
5020 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
5023 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
5024 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
5025 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
5026 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
5027 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
5028 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
5029 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
5033 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
5034 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
5036 + add putty-sco entry -TD
5039 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
5041 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
5043 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
5044 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
5045 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
5047 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
5049 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
5052 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
5053 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
5054 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
5055 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
5057 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
5058 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
5059 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
5062 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
5063 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
5065 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
5068 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
5070 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
5072 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
5074 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
5075 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
5076 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
5077 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
5078 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
5079 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
5080 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
5083 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
5084 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
5086 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
5087 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
5088 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
5089 database (cf: 20111001).
5092 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
5093 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
5094 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
5096 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
5097 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
5099 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
5100 in older FreeBSD machines.
5101 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
5102 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
5103 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
5106 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
5107 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
5108 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
5109 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
5110 root's home directory.
5111 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
5112 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
5113 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
5114 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
5115 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
5117 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
5118 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
5119 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
5120 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
5121 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
5122 (report by Peter Kruse).
5125 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
5126 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
5128 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
5130 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
5131 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
5132 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
5135 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
5136 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
5137 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
5138 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
5139 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
5140 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
5143 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
5144 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
5145 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
5146 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
5147 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
5150 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
5151 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
5152 input and output of termcap source.
5153 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
5154 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
5155 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
5156 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
5157 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
5158 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
5159 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
5160 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
5161 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
5164 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
5167 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
5169 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
5170 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
5171 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
5172 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
5174 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
5177 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
5178 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
5180 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
5181 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
5184 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
5185 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
5187 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
5188 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
5190 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
5191 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
5192 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
5193 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
5195 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
5196 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
5197 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
5198 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
5200 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
5201 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
5204 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
5205 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
5206 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
5207 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
5210 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
5211 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
5212 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
5213 + add terminator entry -TD
5214 + add simpleterm entry -TD
5215 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
5216 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
5220 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
5221 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
5222 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
5223 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
5224 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
5225 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
5226 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
5227 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
5228 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
5229 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
5233 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
5234 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
5235 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
5236 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
5237 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
5238 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
5240 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
5241 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
5242 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
5244 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
5247 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
5248 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
5249 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
5250 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
5252 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
5253 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
5255 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
5256 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
5257 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
5258 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
5259 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
5260 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
5261 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
5262 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
5264 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
5265 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
5267 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
5268 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
5269 tctest (cf: 19991211).
5270 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
5271 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
5272 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
5273 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
5274 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
5275 translating to termcap.
5276 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
5277 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
5280 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
5281 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
5282 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
5283 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
5284 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
5285 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
5287 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
5288 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
5289 regarding Schilling's test program):
5290 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
5291 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
5292 + use \040 rather than \s
5293 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
5294 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
5297 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
5298 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
5299 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
5300 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5301 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
5302 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
5303 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
5304 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
5305 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
5306 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
5307 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
5308 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
5311 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
5312 are not used in the $CC variable.
5313 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
5314 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
5315 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
5316 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
5317 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
5318 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
5321 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
5322 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
5326 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
5327 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
5328 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
5329 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
5330 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
5332 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
5333 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
5335 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
5338 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
5339 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
5342 + fixes for MirBSD port:
5343 + set default prefix to /usr.
5344 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
5345 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
5346 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
5347 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
5350 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
5351 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
5352 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
5353 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
5355 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
5356 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
5360 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
5363 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
5364 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
5365 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
5367 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
5368 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
5369 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
5370 help work around weak-symbol issues.
5373 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
5374 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
5375 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
5376 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
5377 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
5378 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
5379 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
5380 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
5381 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
5382 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
5383 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
5386 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
5387 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
5389 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
5390 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
5391 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
5392 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5395 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
5396 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
5397 as different types on some Unix systems.
5398 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
5399 function pointer passed to tputs().
5400 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
5401 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
5402 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
5403 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
5406 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
5407 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
5408 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
5409 + update config.guess, config.sub
5412 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
5414 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
5415 some ncurses packages.
5416 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
5417 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
5418 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
5420 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5423 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
5424 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
5425 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
5426 the in-tree build of sample programs.
5427 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
5428 needed for rpm script.
5429 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
5430 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
5431 options if building a shared library with gnat.
5434 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
5435 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
5436 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
5437 that sample program.
5438 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
5439 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
5440 which were added in 5.7 and later.
5441 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
5445 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
5447 + regen Ada html documentation.
5448 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
5449 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
5451 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
5453 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
5454 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
5455 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
5456 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
5457 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
5458 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
5460 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5461 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
5463 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
5464 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
5467 + regen Ada html documentation.
5468 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
5469 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
5471 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
5472 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
5473 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
5474 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5475 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
5476 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
5477 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
5478 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
5479 thread in comp.lang.ada).
5480 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
5481 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
5482 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5483 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
5484 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
5485 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
5486 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
5487 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
5488 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
5489 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
5492 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
5493 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5494 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
5496 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
5498 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
5499 explain.txt is not found.
5502 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5503 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
5504 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5505 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
5506 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
5508 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5511 + update release notes, for 5.8.
5512 + regenerated html manpages.
5513 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
5515 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
5516 a new install of hashed database.
5517 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
5520 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
5521 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
5522 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
5523 wide-character configuration.
5524 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
5525 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
5528 + regenerated html manpages.
5529 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
5530 special case of trace configuration.
5533 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
5534 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
5535 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
5536 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
5537 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
5541 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
5542 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
5543 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
5544 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
5545 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
5547 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
5548 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
5551 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
5552 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
5553 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
5554 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5555 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5556 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
5557 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
5558 file configuration if that is used.
5559 + update config.guess, config.sub
5562 + regenerated html manpages.
5563 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
5565 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5566 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
5569 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
5570 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
5573 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
5574 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
5575 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5578 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
5580 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
5581 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
5582 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
5583 wide-character configuration.
5584 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
5585 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
5586 referred to quitting with 'q'.
5589 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
5590 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
5591 version which works with termcap.
5592 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
5593 (request by Sven Joachim).
5594 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
5595 (report by Sven Joachim).
5598 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
5599 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
5600 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
5603 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
5605 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
5606 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
5609 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
5611 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
5612 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
5613 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
5614 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
5615 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
5616 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
5620 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
5621 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
5622 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
5624 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
5627 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
5629 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
5633 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
5635 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
5636 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
5637 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
5638 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
5639 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional
5640 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
5641 tree (report by Werner Fink).
5642 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
5643 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
5644 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
5645 (report by John P. Hartmann)
5646 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
5649 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
5650 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
5651 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
5652 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
5653 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
5654 external package "cindent".
5657 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
5658 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
5659 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
5660 inconsistent printer-controls.
5661 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
5662 form is available -TD
5663 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
5665 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
5667 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
5668 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5669 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
5670 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
5671 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
5673 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
5674 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
5678 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
5679 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
5680 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
5681 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5682 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
5684 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
5687 + regenerated html manpages.
5688 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
5689 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
5690 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
5693 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
5695 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
5696 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
5697 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
5698 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
5702 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
5703 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
5706 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
5707 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
5708 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
5709 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
5710 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
5711 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
5712 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
5716 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
5717 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
5718 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
5719 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
5720 by Tim van der Molen).
5721 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
5722 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
5723 library configuration.
5724 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
5725 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
5726 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
5729 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
5731 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
5732 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
5733 e.g., for cross-compiling.
5734 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
5735 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
5738 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
5739 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
5740 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
5741 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
5742 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
5743 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
5744 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
5745 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
5748 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
5749 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
5750 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
5751 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
5752 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
5753 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
5754 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
5755 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
5758 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
5759 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
5760 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
5761 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
5764 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5765 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
5766 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
5769 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5770 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
5771 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
5774 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5775 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
5776 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
5777 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
5780 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
5781 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
5782 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
5784 + update Ada95/configure.
5785 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
5786 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
5787 of updating LIBS variable.
5790 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
5791 work with 64-bit compiles.
5792 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
5796 + regenerated html documentation.
5797 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
5799 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
5800 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
5801 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
5802 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
5805 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
5806 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
5808 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
5809 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
5810 build- and target-machines differ.
5811 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
5812 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
5814 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
5815 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
5818 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
5819 new EINTR feature is enabled.
5820 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
5821 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
5822 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
5823 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
5824 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
5825 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
5826 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
5827 with the standard builds of ncurses.
5828 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
5829 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
5830 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
5831 found in predefined libraries.
5832 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
5835 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
5836 (patch by David Benjamin).
5837 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
5838 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
5839 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
5840 may be defined by that route.
5843 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5844 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
5845 the predefined include directories.
5846 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
5847 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
5848 where older versions would produce an error.
5851 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
5852 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
5853 terminfo to termcap strings
5854 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
5855 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
5856 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
5857 directory was already added.
5858 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
5859 directories (which will be ignored).
5862 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
5863 + discard motion events
5864 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
5865 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
5866 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
5867 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
5870 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
5871 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
5872 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
5873 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
5874 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
5875 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
5876 extended-colors configuration.
5877 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
5878 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
5879 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
5882 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
5884 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
5885 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
5886 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
5888 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
5889 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
5890 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
5893 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
5894 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
5898 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
5899 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
5900 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
5901 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
5902 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
5903 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
5904 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
5905 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
5906 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
5910 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
5911 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
5912 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
5913 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
5916 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
5918 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5919 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
5920 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
5923 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
5924 making those separately distributable.
5925 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
5926 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
5930 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
5933 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
5934 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
5935 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
5936 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
5940 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
5941 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
5942 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5943 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5946 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
5947 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
5948 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
5949 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
5951 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
5952 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
5953 by Miroslav Lichvar)
5954 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
5958 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
5959 that line-drawing works.
5960 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
5961 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
5962 capabilities can run.
5963 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
5967 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5968 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
5969 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
5970 before older in the list.
5971 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
5972 + minor documentation cleanup.
5973 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5974 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5975 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
5978 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
5979 most common case of SGR 0.
5980 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
5981 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
5982 events remain, it will return ERR.
5985 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
5986 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
5987 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
5988 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
5989 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
5992 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
5993 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
5994 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
5997 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
5998 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
5999 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
6000 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
6001 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
6002 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
6005 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
6006 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
6007 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
6008 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
6009 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
6011 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
6013 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
6015 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
6016 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
6017 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
6019 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6020 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6023 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
6024 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
6026 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
6027 writing terminfo entries.
6028 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
6029 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
6030 by Nicholas Marriott).
6033 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
6035 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
6036 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
6040 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
6041 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
6042 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
6043 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
6044 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
6047 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
6048 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
6049 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
6050 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
6053 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
6054 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
6055 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
6056 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
6057 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6058 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
6059 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
6062 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
6063 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
6064 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
6065 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
6066 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
6067 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
6068 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
6069 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
6070 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
6071 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
6072 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
6075 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
6076 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
6077 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
6078 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
6081 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
6082 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
6085 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
6086 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
6087 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
6091 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
6092 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
6093 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
6094 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
6095 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
6097 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
6098 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
6101 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
6102 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
6103 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
6104 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
6105 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
6106 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
6108 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
6109 library (some work remains for forms library).
6112 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
6113 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
6114 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
6115 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
6117 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
6118 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
6119 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
6120 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
6123 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
6124 by sharing linedata.h functions):
6127 test/test_addchstr.c
6128 test/test_add_wchstr.c
6129 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
6130 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
6131 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
6134 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
6136 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
6137 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
6138 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
6139 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
6143 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
6144 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
6145 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
6146 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6149 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
6150 amd64 (Debian #542031).
6151 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
6154 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6157 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
6158 broken in 20090510 merging.
6159 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
6160 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
6161 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
6162 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
6163 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
6164 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
6165 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
6166 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
6168 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6171 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
6172 implementation details of hash function.
6175 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
6176 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
6177 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
6180 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
6181 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
6182 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
6183 test/demo_terminfo.c
6184 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6185 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
6188 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
6189 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
6193 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6196 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
6198 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
6199 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
6200 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
6201 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
6202 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
6204 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
6205 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
6206 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
6209 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
6210 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
6211 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
6214 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
6215 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
6217 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6220 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
6221 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
6223 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
6224 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
6228 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
6229 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
6230 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6233 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
6236 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6239 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
6240 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
6241 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
6242 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6245 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6248 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
6249 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
6250 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
6251 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
6255 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6258 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6259 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
6262 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6265 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
6269 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6272 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6273 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
6274 part of the form library.
6277 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
6278 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
6281 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
6282 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
6283 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
6284 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
6285 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
6286 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
6287 a temporary variable.
6288 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
6289 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
6290 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
6291 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
6292 with Charles Wilson).
6293 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
6294 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
6295 > patches by Charles Wilson:
6296 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
6297 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
6298 digits, after the final '.').
6299 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
6300 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
6301 using that in the libtool link-commands.
6302 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
6303 from 20090321 changes.
6304 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
6305 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
6306 termlib) is to be linked.
6307 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
6308 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
6311 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
6312 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
6313 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
6314 (report by Charles Wilson).
6315 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
6316 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
6317 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
6318 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
6319 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
6322 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
6323 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
6324 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
6325 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
6326 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
6328 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
6329 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
6330 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
6331 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
6332 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
6333 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
6334 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
6335 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
6338 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6339 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
6340 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
6343 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6346 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
6348 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6349 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
6350 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
6351 some internals work is needed to complete these).
6352 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
6355 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
6356 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
6357 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
6358 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6359 + make it work with $DESTDIR
6360 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
6363 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
6364 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
6366 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
6367 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
6368 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
6371 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
6372 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
6373 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
6374 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
6375 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
6376 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
6377 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
6378 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
6379 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
6382 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
6383 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
6385 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
6387 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
6388 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
6391 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
6393 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
6394 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
6395 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
6396 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6399 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
6400 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
6401 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
6403 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
6404 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
6407 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
6408 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
6409 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
6410 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
6411 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
6412 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
6414 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
6415 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
6417 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6418 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6421 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
6422 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
6423 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
6426 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
6427 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
6428 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
6430 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
6431 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
6434 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
6436 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
6437 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
6438 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
6440 + fixes from NetBSD port at
6441 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
6442 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
6443 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
6444 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
6445 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
6447 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
6448 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
6451 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
6452 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
6453 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
6454 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
6455 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
6456 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
6457 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
6458 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
6459 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
6460 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
6461 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
6464 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
6465 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
6466 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
6467 passing color or video attributes.
6468 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
6469 display meta-characters.
6470 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
6471 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
6472 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
6473 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
6477 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
6478 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6479 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
6481 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
6484 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
6486 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
6487 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
6489 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6492 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
6493 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
6494 does not work well on that platform).
6495 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
6498 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
6499 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
6500 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
6502 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
6503 --disable-database is used.
6504 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
6505 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
6506 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
6507 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
6511 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
6512 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
6513 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
6514 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
6515 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
6516 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
6517 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
6521 + regenerated html documentation.
6522 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
6523 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
6524 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
6525 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
6526 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
6527 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
6528 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
6529 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
6532 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
6533 works for C/C++ parts).
6534 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
6535 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
6538 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
6539 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
6540 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
6541 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
6542 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
6543 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
6544 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
6545 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
6546 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
6548 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
6549 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6550 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
6551 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
6552 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
6553 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
6556 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
6557 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
6560 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
6561 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
6562 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
6563 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
6564 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
6565 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
6568 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
6569 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
6572 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6576 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
6577 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
6578 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
6579 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6581 + update test/configure script.
6582 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
6583 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
6584 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
6585 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
6586 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
6589 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
6590 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
6592 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
6594 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
6595 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
6596 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
6597 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
6598 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
6599 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
6600 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6601 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6602 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
6605 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
6606 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
6607 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
6608 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
6609 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
6610 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
6611 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
6612 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
6613 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
6614 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
6615 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
6619 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
6620 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
6621 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
6622 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
6623 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
6625 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
6626 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
6627 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
6628 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
6629 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
6632 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
6633 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
6634 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
6635 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
6636 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
6637 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
6638 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
6641 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
6645 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
6648 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
6651 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
6652 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
6654 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
6655 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
6656 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
6660 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
6661 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
6663 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
6664 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
6665 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
6666 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
6669 + regenerated html documentation.
6670 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
6671 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
6672 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
6673 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
6674 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
6677 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
6678 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
6679 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
6683 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
6684 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
6685 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
6686 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
6687 window which is being used in a wgetch().
6688 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
6691 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
6692 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
6694 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
6695 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
6696 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6697 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
6698 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6699 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
6700 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
6701 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
6702 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
6705 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
6706 screen which must be updated.
6707 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
6708 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
6709 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
6713 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
6714 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
6716 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
6717 Emanuele Giaquinta).
6718 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
6719 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6722 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
6723 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
6724 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
6726 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
6730 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
6731 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
6732 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
6735 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
6736 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
6737 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
6738 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
6741 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
6742 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
6744 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
6746 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
6749 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
6750 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
6751 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
6752 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
6753 python-dev2 mailing list).
6756 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
6757 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
6758 are not associated with a particular screen.
6759 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
6760 stdscr to the callback function.
6761 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
6762 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
6763 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6764 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
6765 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
6766 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6767 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
6771 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
6772 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
6773 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
6774 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
6776 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
6777 wide-characters with extended-colors.
6778 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
6779 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
6780 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
6783 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
6784 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
6785 that the 'F' accepts.
6786 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
6787 are working concurrently.
6788 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
6792 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
6793 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
6794 _nc_free_and_exit().
6797 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
6798 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
6801 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
6802 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
6805 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
6806 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
6807 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
6808 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
6811 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
6812 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
6813 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
6814 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
6815 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
6816 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
6818 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
6819 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
6823 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
6824 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
6825 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
6828 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
6829 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
6830 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
6833 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
6834 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
6835 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
6839 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
6840 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
6841 "link_test" builds properly.
6842 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
6843 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
6844 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
6845 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
6846 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
6847 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
6848 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
6850 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
6853 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6857 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
6858 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
6861 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
6863 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
6864 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
6865 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
6868 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
6869 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
6870 pierre4d2 comments).
6871 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
6872 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
6873 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
6874 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
6878 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
6879 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
6880 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
6881 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
6882 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
6884 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
6885 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
6886 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
6890 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
6891 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
6894 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6896 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
6898 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
6902 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
6903 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
6905 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
6906 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
6907 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
6908 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
6909 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
6911 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
6912 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
6915 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
6916 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
6917 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
6918 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6921 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
6922 calls within the ncurses library.
6923 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
6925 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
6926 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
6927 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
6929 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
6930 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
6931 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
6932 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
6933 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
6936 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
6937 for threaded library (incomplete).
6938 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
6939 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
6943 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
6944 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
6945 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
6946 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
6947 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
6948 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
6949 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
6950 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6951 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6954 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
6956 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
6957 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
6960 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
6961 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
6962 "\0" followed by a digit.
6963 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
6964 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
6965 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
6966 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
6967 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
6968 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
6969 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
6970 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
6971 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
6974 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
6975 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
6976 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
6977 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
6978 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6980 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
6981 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
6982 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6986 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
6987 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
6988 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
6989 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
6990 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
6991 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
6992 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
6993 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
6994 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
6997 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
6998 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
6999 + add test/test_getstr.c
7000 + add test/test_inwstr.c
7001 + add test/test_instr.c
7004 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
7005 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
7006 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
7010 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
7011 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
7012 ".log" to the name and try again.
7013 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
7014 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
7015 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
7016 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
7017 --disable-echo option is used.
7018 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
7019 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
7020 + update config.guess, config.sub
7023 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
7024 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
7025 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
7029 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
7030 problems with multi-column characters.
7031 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
7032 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
7033 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
7034 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
7035 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
7036 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
7037 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
7040 + add test/demo_panels.c
7041 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
7044 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
7046 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
7047 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
7050 + add test/key_name.c
7051 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
7052 + update test/configure
7053 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
7054 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
7055 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
7059 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
7060 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
7061 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
7062 illustrate how to use mvcur().
7063 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
7064 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
7065 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
7066 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
7067 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
7070 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
7071 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
7072 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
7073 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
7074 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
7075 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
7078 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
7079 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
7081 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
7082 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
7083 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
7084 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
7087 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
7088 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
7089 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
7090 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
7092 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
7094 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
7095 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
7096 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
7097 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
7098 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
7101 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
7102 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
7104 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
7105 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
7106 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
7107 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
7108 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
7109 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
7110 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
7111 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
7112 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
7113 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
7114 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
7117 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
7118 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
7119 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
7120 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
7121 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
7122 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
7123 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
7126 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
7127 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
7128 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
7129 Ada95 tree is not built.
7132 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
7133 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
7134 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
7135 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
7136 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
7137 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
7139 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
7140 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
7141 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
7142 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
7143 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
7144 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
7145 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
7146 > fixes based on Coverity report:
7147 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
7148 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
7149 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
7150 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
7151 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
7152 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
7153 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
7154 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
7155 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
7156 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
7157 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
7159 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
7160 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
7161 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
7162 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
7163 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
7164 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
7165 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
7166 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
7167 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
7170 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
7171 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
7172 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
7173 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
7174 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
7175 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
7176 + improved install-sh's quoting.
7177 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
7181 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
7182 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
7183 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
7184 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
7185 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
7189 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
7190 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
7191 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
7192 in the configure script to an error.
7193 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
7194 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
7195 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
7196 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
7197 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
7199 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
7200 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
7203 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
7204 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7207 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
7208 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
7210 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
7211 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
7212 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
7213 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
7214 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
7215 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
7216 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
7217 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
7220 + regenerated html documentation.
7221 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
7222 opaque in selected configurations.
7223 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
7224 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
7225 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
7226 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7227 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
7228 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
7229 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
7230 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7231 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
7232 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
7233 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
7235 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
7236 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
7239 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
7240 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
7241 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
7242 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
7243 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7244 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
7245 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
7246 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
7247 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
7248 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
7249 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
7250 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
7253 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
7255 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
7256 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
7257 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
7259 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
7260 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7261 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
7262 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7263 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
7264 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7265 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
7266 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
7268 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
7269 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7272 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
7273 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
7275 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
7277 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
7278 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
7279 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
7282 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
7283 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
7284 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
7285 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
7287 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
7288 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
7289 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
7290 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
7291 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
7292 no longer relies on it.
7293 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
7294 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
7295 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
7298 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
7299 (report by Rong-En Fan).
7302 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
7303 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
7304 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
7305 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
7306 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
7307 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7308 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
7309 its license consistent with ncurses.
7310 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
7311 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
7312 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
7315 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
7316 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
7317 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
7318 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
7322 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
7323 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
7324 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
7326 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
7327 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7330 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
7331 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
7332 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
7335 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
7336 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7337 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
7338 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
7339 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
7340 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
7341 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
7342 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
7343 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
7344 to manpages as needed.
7345 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
7346 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
7349 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
7350 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
7351 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
7352 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
7353 + update config.guess, config.sub
7355 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7358 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
7359 definitions in <wchar.h>.
7360 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
7361 correct nor portable.
7362 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
7364 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
7365 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
7369 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
7370 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
7371 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
7372 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
7373 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
7374 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
7377 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
7378 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
7379 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
7380 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
7382 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
7383 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
7384 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
7385 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
7386 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
7387 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
7388 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
7389 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
7392 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
7393 database configuration.
7394 + updates for test/configure script.
7395 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
7396 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
7398 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
7399 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
7400 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
7401 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
7403 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
7404 _nc_printf_string().
7405 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
7406 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
7409 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
7410 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
7412 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
7413 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
7417 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
7418 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
7421 + add test/echochar.c
7422 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
7423 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
7426 + add AUTHORS file -TD
7427 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
7428 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
7429 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
7432 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
7433 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
7434 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
7436 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
7437 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
7438 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
7439 for rpath support in versions past 3.
7440 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
7441 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
7442 Ralf S Engelschall).
7443 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
7444 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
7445 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
7446 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
7449 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
7450 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
7451 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
7454 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
7455 and status line (Alain Bench).
7456 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
7457 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
7458 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
7459 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
7462 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
7463 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
7464 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
7465 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
7466 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
7469 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
7470 + updated html documentation.
7471 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
7472 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
7475 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
7476 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
7477 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7478 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
7479 option (from lynx changes) -TD
7480 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
7481 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
7482 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
7483 by report by Christopher Parker).
7487 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
7488 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
7489 since it does not really do this -TD
7492 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
7493 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
7494 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
7495 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
7498 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
7499 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
7500 embedded into a termcap description.
7501 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
7502 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
7503 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
7504 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7505 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
7508 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
7510 + add test/foldkeys.c
7513 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
7514 source output (Debian #378783).
7515 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
7516 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
7517 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
7518 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
7519 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
7520 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7523 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
7524 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
7525 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
7528 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
7529 or as a text file if those are not available.
7530 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
7531 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
7532 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
7535 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
7536 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
7537 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
7538 + update config.guess, config.sub
7541 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
7542 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
7543 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
7545 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
7546 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
7548 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
7549 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
7550 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
7551 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
7552 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
7553 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
7555 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
7556 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
7557 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
7558 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7561 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
7562 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
7566 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
7567 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
7569 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
7570 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
7571 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
7572 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
7573 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
7574 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
7577 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
7578 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
7579 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
7580 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
7581 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
7582 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
7583 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7584 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
7585 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
7586 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7589 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
7590 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7591 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
7592 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
7594 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
7597 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
7598 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
7599 + minor copyright fixes.
7600 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
7603 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
7604 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
7605 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
7606 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
7607 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
7608 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
7609 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
7610 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
7612 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
7613 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
7614 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
7615 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
7617 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
7620 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
7621 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
7623 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
7624 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
7625 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
7626 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
7628 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
7629 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
7630 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
7631 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
7634 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
7635 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
7636 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
7637 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
7638 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
7639 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
7640 + update config.guess, config.sub
7641 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
7642 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
7643 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
7644 function is broken in that implementation.
7647 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
7648 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
7651 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
7652 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
7654 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
7655 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
7657 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
7658 reported to implement this feature -TD
7661 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
7662 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7665 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
7666 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
7667 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
7668 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
7669 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
7670 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
7671 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
7672 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
7675 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
7676 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
7678 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
7679 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
7682 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
7683 (report by Alain Bench).
7684 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
7685 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
7686 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
7687 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
7689 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
7690 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
7691 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
7695 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
7696 and/or video attributes.
7697 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
7698 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
7701 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
7704 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
7705 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
7706 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
7707 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
7708 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
7709 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
7710 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
7711 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
7712 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
7715 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
7716 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7717 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
7720 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
7721 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
7722 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
7723 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
7724 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
7725 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
7726 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
7727 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
7728 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
7729 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
7732 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
7733 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
7734 rather than delayed.
7735 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
7737 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
7738 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
7739 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
7742 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
7744 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
7745 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
7748 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
7749 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
7752 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
7753 + suppress line-drawing
7754 + implement max_attributes
7756 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
7757 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
7761 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
7762 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
7764 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
7766 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
7767 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
7768 etc., when allocating screens.
7771 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
7772 this in test/filter.c
7773 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
7777 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
7778 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
7779 + add extension nofilter().
7780 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
7781 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
7782 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
7783 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
7784 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7787 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
7788 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
7789 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
7790 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
7791 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
7792 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
7793 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
7794 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
7795 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
7797 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
7798 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
7799 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
7801 + update config.guess and config.sub
7804 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
7805 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
7806 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
7808 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
7809 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
7810 that was never built in that directory).
7811 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
7814 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
7816 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
7817 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
7821 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
7822 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
7823 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
7824 effect of the different functions.
7825 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
7829 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
7830 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
7832 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
7836 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
7837 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
7838 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
7840 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
7841 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
7845 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
7846 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
7847 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
7849 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
7850 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
7851 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
7854 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
7855 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
7856 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
7859 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
7860 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
7861 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
7863 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
7864 a derived window (Debian #316663).
7867 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
7868 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
7869 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
7870 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
7871 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
7872 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
7873 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
7876 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
7877 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
7878 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
7880 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
7881 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7882 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
7883 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
7884 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
7886 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7889 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
7892 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
7893 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
7897 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
7898 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7899 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
7900 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7901 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
7903 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7904 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7907 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
7908 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
7909 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
7910 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
7911 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
7912 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
7913 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
7914 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
7915 default if it is used.
7916 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
7917 --with-abi-version option was used.
7918 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
7919 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
7920 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
7923 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
7924 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
7925 handlers (Debian #326709).
7928 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
7929 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
7931 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
7934 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
7935 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
7936 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
7937 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
7939 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
7940 (report by Frank van Vugt).
7943 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
7944 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
7945 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
7946 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
7947 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
7948 + update llib-l* files.
7951 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
7952 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
7953 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
7954 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
7958 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
7959 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
7960 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
7961 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
7962 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
7963 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
7964 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
7965 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
7966 Konstantin Andreev).
7969 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
7970 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
7971 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
7972 several related cases -TD
7973 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
7974 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
7976 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
7977 resets line-drawing.
7980 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
7982 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
7983 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
7984 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
7985 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
7986 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
7987 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
7990 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
7991 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
7992 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
7994 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
7995 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
7998 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7999 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
8000 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
8001 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
8002 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
8003 "make install.data" step.
8004 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
8005 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
8006 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
8007 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
8008 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
8009 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
8010 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
8011 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
8012 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
8013 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
8014 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
8015 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
8016 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
8017 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
8020 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
8023 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
8024 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
8025 review of Debian package).
8026 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
8027 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
8028 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
8029 install using libtool 1.5.0):
8030 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
8032 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
8033 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
8034 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
8035 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
8036 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
8039 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
8040 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
8041 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
8044 + fixes for termcap support:
8045 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
8046 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
8047 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
8048 extended names data will be freed consistently.
8049 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
8051 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
8052 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
8053 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
8054 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
8057 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
8058 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
8059 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
8060 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
8062 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
8066 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
8068 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
8069 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
8072 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
8073 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
8074 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
8075 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
8076 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
8077 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
8078 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
8082 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
8083 shift-, control-cursor keys.
8084 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
8085 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
8086 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
8087 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
8088 it will automatically be treated as a key.
8089 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
8090 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
8091 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
8095 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
8096 + add configure option --enable-largefile
8097 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
8101 + update config.guess, config.sub
8102 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
8103 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
8104 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
8105 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
8106 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
8108 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
8109 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
8110 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
8113 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
8114 position the mouse to a particular item.
8115 + implement test/demo_menus.c
8116 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
8117 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
8118 --enable-const option.
8121 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
8122 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
8123 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
8124 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
8125 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
8126 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
8127 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
8128 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
8129 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
8130 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
8131 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
8134 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
8136 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
8137 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
8140 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
8141 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
8142 anyone used that configuration.
8143 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
8145 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
8146 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
8149 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
8150 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
8151 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
8153 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
8154 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
8155 WenRui, Debian #300512).
8158 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
8159 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
8160 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
8164 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
8165 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
8166 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
8167 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
8168 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
8171 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
8173 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
8175 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
8176 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
8177 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
8180 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
8182 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
8183 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
8184 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
8185 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
8186 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
8187 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
8188 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
8189 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
8190 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
8191 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
8192 right (cf: 20040228).
8193 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
8194 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
8197 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
8198 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
8199 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
8200 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
8201 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
8202 added (Debian #295083).
8203 + add traces to panel library.
8206 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
8207 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
8208 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
8209 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
8210 mouse events in this case.
8211 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
8212 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
8215 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
8216 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
8217 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
8218 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
8219 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
8220 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
8221 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
8222 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
8225 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
8226 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
8227 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
8228 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
8229 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
8230 already been started.
8231 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
8232 pair_content() and color_content().
8233 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
8234 if it corresponds to the default-color.
8235 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
8236 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
8237 color pairs which are allowed.
8238 + add a top-level tags rule.
8241 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
8242 first calling initscr().
8243 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
8244 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
8245 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
8246 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
8247 that are curses-specific.
8248 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
8249 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
8250 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
8251 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
8255 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
8256 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
8257 for leading whitespace.
8258 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
8259 where a following line begins in column 1.
8260 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
8261 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
8264 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
8267 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
8268 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
8269 + update config.guess, config.sub
8270 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
8271 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
8272 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
8273 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
8274 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
8275 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
8276 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
8279 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
8281 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
8282 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
8285 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
8286 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
8287 and attr_set functions.
8290 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
8291 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
8292 forms-demo to be one character short.
8293 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
8294 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
8295 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
8296 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
8299 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
8300 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
8301 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
8302 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
8304 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
8305 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
8308 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
8309 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
8310 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
8311 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
8312 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
8313 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
8314 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
8316 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
8317 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
8319 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
8320 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
8323 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
8324 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
8325 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
8326 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
8327 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
8328 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
8329 wide-character configuration.
8332 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
8333 or multicolumn characters.
8336 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
8337 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
8338 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
8339 use_default_colors() be called first.
8342 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
8343 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
8344 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
8345 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
8346 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
8347 must be wrapped to a new line.
8348 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
8349 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
8350 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
8351 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
8352 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
8356 + minor fixes for traces.
8357 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
8358 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
8359 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
8363 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
8364 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
8365 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
8366 and shift-out which seem to work.
8367 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
8368 at runtime (Debian #110586).
8371 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
8372 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8373 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
8374 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
8378 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
8379 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
8380 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
8381 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8384 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
8385 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
8386 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8387 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
8388 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8389 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
8390 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
8391 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
8392 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
8393 is no longer experimental.
8394 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
8395 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
8398 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
8401 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
8402 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
8403 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
8404 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
8405 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
8406 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
8407 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
8408 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
8411 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
8412 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
8413 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
8414 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
8415 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
8416 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
8417 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
8418 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
8421 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
8422 and window managers (Debian #265631).
8423 > terminfo updates -TD
8424 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
8425 with the common usage of bce/ech
8426 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
8430 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
8431 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
8432 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
8433 a help window as well.
8434 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
8435 the -d option is set.
8436 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
8439 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
8441 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
8442 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
8446 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
8447 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
8448 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
8449 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
8451 > terminfo updates -TD
8452 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
8453 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
8454 + add function-keys to decansi
8455 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
8456 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
8457 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
8460 > terminfo updates -TD
8461 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
8462 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
8464 + review/update konsole entries
8465 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
8466 + correct tsl string in kterm
8469 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
8472 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
8473 multibyte character.
8474 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
8476 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
8477 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
8478 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
8479 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
8480 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
8481 converting termcap to termcap format.
8482 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
8483 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
8484 > terminfo updates -TD
8485 + minor fixes for emu
8487 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
8492 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
8493 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
8494 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
8495 (report/patch by Tony Li).
8496 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
8497 > terminfo updates -TD
8498 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
8500 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
8501 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
8502 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
8505 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
8506 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
8508 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
8509 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
8510 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
8511 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
8512 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
8513 + update config.guess, config.sub
8514 > terminfo updates -TD
8516 + add xterm-xf86-v44
8517 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
8518 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
8523 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
8524 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
8525 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
8528 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
8529 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
8530 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
8532 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
8536 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
8537 field_buffer() results.
8538 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
8541 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
8543 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
8544 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
8545 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
8546 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
8547 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
8550 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
8551 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
8552 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
8556 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
8557 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
8559 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
8562 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
8563 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
8564 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
8565 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
8566 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
8567 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
8568 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
8569 information without an option.
8570 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
8571 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
8574 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
8577 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
8578 + free some memory leaks in tic.
8579 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
8580 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
8581 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
8582 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
8583 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
8585 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
8588 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
8589 to an unsigned char.
8590 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
8591 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
8594 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
8597 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
8598 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
8599 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
8600 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
8601 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
8602 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
8603 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
8604 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
8605 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
8606 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
8607 20030802 (Debian #237629).
8610 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
8611 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
8612 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
8613 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
8616 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
8618 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
8619 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
8622 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
8623 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
8624 mode is shown in that test.
8625 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
8626 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
8627 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
8630 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
8632 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
8633 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
8634 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
8635 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
8637 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
8638 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
8639 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
8640 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
8643 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
8644 (request by Mike Aubury).
8645 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
8647 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
8649 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
8652 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
8653 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
8654 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
8655 with Stanislav Ievlev).
8656 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
8657 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
8658 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
8659 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
8660 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
8661 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
8663 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8666 20040207 pre-release
8667 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
8668 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
8669 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
8670 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
8671 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
8673 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
8674 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
8675 verified by Scott Corscadden).
8677 20040131 pre-release
8678 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
8679 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
8680 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
8681 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
8682 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
8683 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
8684 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
8685 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
8686 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
8687 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
8688 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
8690 20040125 pre-release
8691 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
8692 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
8693 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
8694 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
8695 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
8696 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
8697 modifying the displayed value.
8699 20040124 pre-release
8700 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
8701 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
8702 that works better for cross-compiling.
8704 20040117 pre-release
8705 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
8706 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
8707 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
8708 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
8709 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
8710 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
8711 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
8713 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
8714 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
8716 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
8717 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
8718 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
8719 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
8720 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8721 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
8722 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
8723 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
8724 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8725 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
8726 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8727 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
8729 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
8730 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
8731 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
8732 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
8733 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
8734 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
8735 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
8736 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
8738 20040110 pre-release
8739 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
8740 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
8742 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
8743 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
8745 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
8747 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
8748 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
8749 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8750 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
8751 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8754 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
8755 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
8756 + add pecho_wchar().
8757 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
8758 available) on older platforms.
8761 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
8762 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
8763 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
8764 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
8765 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
8766 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
8767 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
8768 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
8769 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
8772 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
8773 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
8774 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
8775 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
8776 work with Tru64 4.0d.
8777 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
8781 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
8782 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
8783 applications do not.
8784 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
8785 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
8786 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
8787 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
8788 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
8789 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
8793 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
8794 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
8795 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
8796 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
8797 <inger@altlinux.org>).
8798 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
8799 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
8800 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
8801 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
8802 awkward for some cases.
8803 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
8804 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
8806 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
8807 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
8808 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
8809 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
8810 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
8814 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
8815 values (Philippe Blain).
8816 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
8817 restarting (Philippe Blain).
8818 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
8822 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
8823 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
8824 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
8825 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
8826 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
8827 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
8831 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
8832 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
8833 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
8835 + update config.guess, config.sub
8838 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
8839 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
8840 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
8841 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
8842 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
8843 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
8844 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
8846 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
8847 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
8848 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
8849 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
8850 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
8853 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
8854 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
8855 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
8856 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
8857 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
8858 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
8859 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
8860 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
8862 + regenerated html documentation.
8863 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
8864 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
8865 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
8868 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
8869 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
8870 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
8871 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
8872 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
8873 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
8874 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
8875 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
8879 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
8880 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
8883 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
8884 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
8885 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
8886 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
8888 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
8889 (report by Philippe Blain).
8892 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
8893 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
8894 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
8895 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
8896 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
8897 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
8898 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8899 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
8900 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
8902 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
8904 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
8905 in the clr_bol logic.
8908 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8909 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8910 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
8911 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
8912 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
8913 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8914 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
8915 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
8916 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
8917 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
8918 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
8919 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
8922 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
8923 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
8924 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
8925 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
8928 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
8929 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
8930 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
8931 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
8932 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
8933 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
8934 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
8935 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
8936 --with-install-prefix is used.
8939 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8940 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
8941 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
8942 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
8945 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
8946 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
8947 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
8948 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
8949 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
8950 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
8951 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8952 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
8953 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
8956 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
8957 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
8958 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
8959 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
8960 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
8961 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
8962 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
8965 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
8967 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8968 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
8969 the size of the scroll-region.
8970 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
8973 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
8974 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
8975 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
8979 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
8980 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
8981 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
8982 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
8983 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
8985 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
8986 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
8987 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
8988 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
8989 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
8990 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
8991 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
8992 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
8993 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
8994 usage and to prevent circular links.
8995 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
8996 (rxvt-color): new alias
8997 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
8998 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
8999 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
9000 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
9001 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
9002 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
9004 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
9008 + update config.guess, config.sub
9009 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
9010 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
9013 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
9014 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
9015 would not accept gcc warning options.
9016 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
9017 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
9018 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
9019 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
9020 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
9021 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
9022 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
9024 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
9027 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
9028 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
9029 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
9030 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
9031 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
9032 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
9033 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
9034 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
9037 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
9039 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
9040 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
9041 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
9042 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
9045 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
9047 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
9048 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
9049 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
9050 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
9051 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
9052 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
9055 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
9056 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
9057 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
9058 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
9059 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
9060 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
9061 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
9062 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
9064 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
9065 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9066 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
9067 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9070 + regenerated html manpages.
9071 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
9072 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
9074 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
9075 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
9077 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
9078 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
9081 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
9082 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
9083 + add tkterm entry -TD
9084 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
9085 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
9086 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
9087 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
9089 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
9090 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
9091 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
9093 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
9094 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
9095 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
9098 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
9099 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
9100 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
9101 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
9103 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
9104 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
9105 current test programs.
9106 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
9107 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
9108 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
9109 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
9111 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
9112 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
9113 mentioned in the terminfo.
9114 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
9115 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
9118 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
9119 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
9120 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
9121 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
9122 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
9123 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
9124 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
9125 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
9128 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
9129 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
9130 the editing position before making modifications.
9131 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
9132 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
9133 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
9136 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
9137 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
9138 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
9139 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
9141 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
9142 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
9143 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
9144 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
9145 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
9146 terminfo as is done in "screen".
9149 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
9150 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
9151 code, from recent rewrite.
9152 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
9154 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
9155 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
9158 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
9159 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
9160 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
9161 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
9164 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
9165 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
9167 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
9170 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
9172 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
9173 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
9175 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
9176 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
9177 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
9180 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
9181 a file when ^W is given.
9182 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
9186 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
9187 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
9188 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
9189 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
9190 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
9191 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
9192 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
9193 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
9197 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
9198 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
9199 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
9202 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
9203 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
9204 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
9205 baudrate was not known.
9206 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
9207 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
9208 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
9209 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
9210 corresponding capability might be
9212 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
9213 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
9214 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
9215 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
9218 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
9219 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
9220 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
9221 apparently typedef'd.
9222 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
9223 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
9226 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
9227 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
9228 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
9229 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
9230 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
9231 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
9232 cached for reallocating.
9235 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
9236 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
9237 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
9239 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
9240 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
9241 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
9242 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
9243 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
9244 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
9245 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
9246 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
9249 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
9250 emx-base to the latter -TD
9251 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
9252 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
9255 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
9256 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
9257 attributes, e.g., reverse.
9258 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
9259 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
9262 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
9263 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
9264 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
9265 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
9266 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
9267 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
9268 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
9270 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
9271 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
9272 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
9273 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
9274 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
9277 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
9278 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
9279 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
9280 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
9281 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
9282 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
9284 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9285 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
9286 is indeed a "blank".
9287 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
9288 sections as small as one line.
9289 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
9291 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
9292 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
9293 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
9296 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
9297 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
9300 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
9301 (report by Philippe Blain).
9302 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
9303 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
9304 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
9305 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
9306 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
9308 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
9309 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
9310 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
9311 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9312 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
9313 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
9316 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
9317 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
9319 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
9320 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
9322 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
9323 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
9324 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
9325 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
9328 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
9329 overridden from the environment.
9330 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
9331 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
9332 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
9333 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
9334 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
9335 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
9336 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
9337 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
9338 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
9339 by Sam Varshavchik).
9340 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
9341 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
9342 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
9343 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
9345 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
9346 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
9347 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
9348 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
9349 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
9352 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
9353 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
9354 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
9355 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
9356 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
9357 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
9358 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
9359 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
9360 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
9361 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
9362 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
9363 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
9364 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
9365 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
9366 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
9367 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
9368 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
9369 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
9370 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
9371 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
9372 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
9373 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
9374 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
9377 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
9378 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
9379 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
9380 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
9381 winsch() internal function.
9382 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
9383 more than one spacing character.
9386 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
9387 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
9388 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
9389 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
9390 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
9391 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
9392 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
9393 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
9394 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
9395 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
9398 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
9399 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
9400 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
9401 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
9402 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
9403 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
9404 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
9407 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
9408 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
9409 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
9410 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
9412 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
9413 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
9414 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
9415 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
9416 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
9419 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
9420 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
9421 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
9422 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
9423 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
9424 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
9425 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
9426 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
9427 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
9428 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
9429 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
9430 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
9431 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
9432 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
9433 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
9434 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
9435 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
9438 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
9439 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
9440 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
9441 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
9442 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
9443 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
9444 Frederic L W Meunier).
9446 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9447 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
9448 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
9449 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
9450 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
9451 the debug trace in that case.
9452 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
9453 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
9454 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
9455 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
9457 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
9458 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
9460 20021005 pre-release
9461 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
9462 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
9463 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
9464 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
9465 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
9466 formats such as "%.*s".
9467 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
9468 (report Floyd Davidson).
9469 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
9471 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
9472 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
9473 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
9475 20020928 pre-release
9476 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
9477 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
9478 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
9480 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
9481 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
9482 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
9483 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
9484 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
9485 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
9486 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
9487 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
9488 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
9489 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
9490 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
9491 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
9492 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
9493 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
9494 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
9495 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
9496 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
9497 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
9498 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
9500 20020921 pre-release
9501 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
9502 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
9503 result in core dump.
9504 + documented getbegx(), etc.
9505 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
9506 delimiter rather than '@'.
9507 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9508 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
9509 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
9510 to the lines given for the destination window.
9512 20020914 pre-release
9513 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
9514 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
9515 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
9516 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
9517 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
9518 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
9519 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
9520 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
9521 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9522 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
9523 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
9524 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
9526 20020907 pre-release
9527 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
9528 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
9529 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
9530 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
9531 html manpages on Debian.
9532 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
9533 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
9534 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
9535 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9536 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
9537 a variable from the stack.
9538 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
9540 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
9541 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
9542 _idcok window fields.
9543 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
9545 20020901 pre-release
9546 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
9547 + update config.guess, config.sub
9548 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
9549 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
9551 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
9552 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
9553 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
9554 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
9555 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
9556 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
9557 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
9558 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
9559 use in resizeterm().
9560 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
9561 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
9562 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
9563 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
9564 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9565 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
9566 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
9567 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
9568 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
9569 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
9570 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
9574 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
9575 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
9576 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
9577 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
9578 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
9579 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
9582 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
9583 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
9584 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
9586 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
9587 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
9588 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
9589 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
9590 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
9592 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
9593 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
9597 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
9598 when translating to termcap.
9599 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
9600 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
9601 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
9603 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
9605 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
9606 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
9608 + document TABSIZE variable.
9609 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
9610 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
9611 assume_default_colors().
9612 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
9614 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
9615 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
9616 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
9617 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
9618 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
9621 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
9623 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
9624 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
9626 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
9627 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
9628 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
9631 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
9633 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
9636 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
9637 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
9638 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
9639 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
9640 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
9641 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
9642 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
9643 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
9644 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
9645 configure definitions.
9646 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
9647 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
9648 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
9649 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
9650 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
9651 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
9652 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
9653 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
9654 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
9655 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
9656 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
9659 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
9660 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
9661 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
9662 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
9663 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
9664 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
9665 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
9667 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
9668 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
9669 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
9670 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9673 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
9674 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
9675 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
9676 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
9678 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
9679 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
9680 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
9683 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
9684 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
9686 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
9687 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
9688 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
9690 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
9691 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
9692 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
9693 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
9695 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
9696 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
9697 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
9698 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
9702 + add charset to generated html.
9703 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
9704 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
9705 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
9706 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
9707 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
9708 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
9712 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
9713 key code in get_wch().
9714 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
9715 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
9716 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
9717 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
9718 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
9719 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
9722 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
9723 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
9725 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
9726 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
9727 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
9728 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
9731 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
9732 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
9733 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
9734 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
9735 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
9736 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
9737 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
9738 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
9739 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
9740 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
9743 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
9747 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
9748 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
9749 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
9750 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
9751 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
9752 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
9753 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
9756 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
9757 character versions as well.
9758 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
9760 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
9762 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
9763 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
9764 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
9765 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
9766 if gettimeofday() is available.
9769 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
9770 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
9773 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
9775 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
9776 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
9777 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
9778 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
9779 + update config.guess, config.sub
9782 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
9783 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
9784 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
9785 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
9786 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
9787 alias for 'function'.
9790 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
9791 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
9795 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
9796 + implement wgetn_wstr().
9797 + implement win_wchnstr().
9798 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
9799 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
9802 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
9803 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
9806 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
9807 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
9810 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
9811 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
9812 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
9814 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
9815 + implement unget_wch().
9816 + implement wget_wch().
9819 + regenerated html manpages.
9820 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
9821 + implement wins_wch().
9822 + implement win_wch().
9823 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
9826 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
9827 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
9830 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
9831 + document wunctrl, key_name.
9832 + implement key_name().
9833 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
9835 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
9839 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
9840 in spurious symlinks on install.
9843 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
9844 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
9845 box() and box_set() functions.
9846 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
9847 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
9848 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
9849 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
9850 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
9851 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
9852 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
9854 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
9856 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
9857 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
9858 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
9859 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
9861 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
9862 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
9865 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
9866 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
9868 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
9872 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
9874 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
9875 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
9876 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9877 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
9878 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
9879 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9880 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
9881 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
9882 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
9883 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
9884 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
9885 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
9886 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
9887 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
9888 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
9891 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
9892 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
9895 + update config.guess, config.sub
9896 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9897 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
9900 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
9901 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
9902 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
9904 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
9905 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
9907 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
9908 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
9909 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
9910 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9913 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
9916 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
9917 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
9918 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
9919 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
9920 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
9921 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
9922 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
9923 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
9924 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
9926 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
9927 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
9928 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
9930 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
9932 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
9933 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
9934 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
9935 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
9936 work with SunOS nawk.
9937 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
9939 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
9940 case it uses multiple tokens.
9943 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
9944 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
9945 interrupted by that signal.
9946 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
9947 not needed with autoconf 2.52
9948 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
9949 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
9951 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9952 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
9953 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
9954 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
9955 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
9958 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
9960 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
9961 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
9962 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
9963 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
9964 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
9965 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
9966 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
9967 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
9970 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
9971 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
9972 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
9973 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
9974 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
9975 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
9976 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
9977 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
9978 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
9981 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
9982 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
9983 may have different keypad() settings.
9984 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
9985 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
9986 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
9987 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
9988 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
9989 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
9990 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
9991 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
9993 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9994 + update config.guess, config.sub from
9995 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
9996 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
10000 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
10002 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
10003 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
10004 implementation in cygwin package).
10005 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
10006 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
10008 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
10009 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
10010 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
10011 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
10012 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
10013 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
10014 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
10015 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
10016 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
10017 in the C++ runtime.
10018 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
10019 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
10020 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
10021 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
10022 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
10023 <jevans@apple.com>).
10024 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
10025 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
10026 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
10027 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
10028 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
10032 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
10033 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
10034 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
10035 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
10036 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
10037 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
10038 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
10039 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
10040 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
10041 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
10044 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
10047 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
10048 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
10049 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
10050 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
10051 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
10054 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
10055 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
10058 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
10059 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
10060 + implement wecho_wchar()
10061 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
10062 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
10063 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
10065 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
10066 in a trace by using curly braces.
10067 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
10068 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
10069 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
10070 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
10073 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
10074 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
10075 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
10076 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
10077 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
10081 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
10082 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
10083 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
10084 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
10085 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
10086 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
10087 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
10088 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
10092 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
10093 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
10094 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
10095 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
10096 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
10097 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
10098 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
10099 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
10100 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
10103 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
10104 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
10107 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
10108 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
10109 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
10110 <bbraun@synack.net>).
10111 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
10112 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
10114 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
10115 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
10117 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
10118 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
10121 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
10122 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
10123 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
10124 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
10125 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
10127 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
10128 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
10130 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
10131 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
10132 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
10133 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
10134 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
10137 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
10138 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
10140 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
10141 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
10142 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
10143 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
10146 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
10147 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
10148 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
10149 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
10150 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
10151 Michael Schroeder).
10154 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
10155 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
10156 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
10158 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
10160 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
10162 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
10164 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
10165 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
10166 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
10167 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
10168 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
10169 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
10170 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
10171 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
10172 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
10176 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
10177 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
10178 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
10179 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
10180 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
10181 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
10182 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
10183 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
10184 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
10185 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
10187 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
10188 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
10189 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10190 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
10191 supports xterm mouse controls.
10192 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
10193 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
10194 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
10195 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
10196 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
10197 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
10198 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
10199 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
10200 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
10201 AX in a color xterm.
10202 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
10206 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
10207 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
10208 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
10209 + added llib-ncursesw.
10212 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
10213 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
10214 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
10215 header files (report by William P Setzer).
10216 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
10217 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
10218 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
10219 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10220 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
10221 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
10222 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
10223 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10224 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
10225 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10226 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
10227 obsolete with QNX RTP.
10228 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
10229 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
10230 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
10231 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
10234 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
10235 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
10236 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
10239 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
10240 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
10241 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
10242 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
10243 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
10244 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
10245 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
10246 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
10247 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
10248 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
10249 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
10250 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
10254 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
10255 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
10256 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
10257 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
10258 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
10259 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
10260 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10263 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
10264 new wide-character structures.
10265 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
10266 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
10267 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
10268 compiling for wide-character configuration.
10269 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
10273 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
10275 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
10276 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
10277 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
10279 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
10280 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
10281 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
10284 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
10285 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
10286 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
10289 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
10290 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
10291 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
10292 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
10293 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
10294 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
10295 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
10298 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
10299 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
10300 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
10301 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
10302 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
10303 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
10304 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
10305 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
10306 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
10309 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
10310 which may be in libutf8.
10311 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
10312 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
10313 links (Debian #99550).
10314 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
10315 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
10316 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
10317 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
10318 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
10319 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
10320 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
10321 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
10324 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
10325 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
10328 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
10329 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
10330 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
10331 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
10332 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
10334 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
10335 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
10336 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
10337 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
10338 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
10339 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
10340 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
10341 are used to manipulate attributes.
10342 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
10343 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
10344 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
10345 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
10346 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
10347 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
10349 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
10350 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
10351 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
10352 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
10353 we are using chtype data.
10354 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
10356 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
10358 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
10359 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
10360 where a pointer would be more useful.
10361 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
10362 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
10363 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
10364 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
10365 passing cchar_t's by address.
10366 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
10367 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
10368 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
10369 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
10370 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
10371 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
10372 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
10373 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
10376 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
10377 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
10378 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
10379 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
10380 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
10382 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
10383 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
10384 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
10387 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
10388 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
10389 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
10390 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
10391 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
10392 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
10393 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
10394 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
10395 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
10396 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
10397 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
10398 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
10401 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
10402 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
10403 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
10406 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
10407 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
10410 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
10411 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
10412 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
10413 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
10414 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
10417 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
10418 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
10419 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
10420 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
10421 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
10422 <bsittler@iname.com>).
10423 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
10424 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
10425 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
10426 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
10427 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10430 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
10431 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
10432 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
10433 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
10434 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
10435 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
10436 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
10437 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10438 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
10439 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
10440 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
10441 any shots there, but the computer did.
10442 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
10443 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
10447 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
10448 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
10449 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
10450 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
10451 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
10452 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10455 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
10456 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
10457 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
10458 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
10459 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
10461 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
10463 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
10464 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
10466 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
10468 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
10469 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
10472 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
10473 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
10474 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
10475 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
10476 interface from C++ binding.
10477 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
10478 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
10479 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
10480 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
10482 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
10483 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
10484 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
10485 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
10488 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
10489 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
10490 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
10491 (patch by Todd C Miller).
10494 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
10497 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
10501 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
10502 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
10503 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
10504 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
10505 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
10506 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
10507 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
10508 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
10509 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
10510 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
10511 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
10512 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
10515 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
10516 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
10518 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
10519 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
10520 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
10521 did not do this already.
10522 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
10523 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10524 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
10525 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
10526 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
10527 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
10528 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
10529 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
10532 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
10533 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
10536 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
10537 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
10538 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
10539 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
10541 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
10543 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
10544 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
10546 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
10547 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
10548 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
10549 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
10550 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
10553 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
10554 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
10555 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
10556 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
10559 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
10560 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
10561 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
10564 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
10565 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
10566 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
10567 work with 'indent') -TD
10570 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
10571 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
10572 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10573 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
10574 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
10576 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
10577 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
10578 termcap and terminfo functions
10579 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
10583 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
10584 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
10585 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
10586 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
10587 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
10588 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
10590 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
10591 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
10592 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
10593 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
10594 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
10595 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
10596 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
10597 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
10600 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
10601 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
10602 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
10603 /usr rather than /usr/local.
10606 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
10607 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
10608 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
10609 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
10610 <solar@false.com>).
10611 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
10612 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
10613 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
10614 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
10615 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
10616 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
10617 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
10618 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10621 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
10622 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
10623 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
10624 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
10625 + change trace output to binary format.
10626 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
10627 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
10628 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
10629 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
10630 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
10631 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
10632 the overwrite logic.
10635 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
10636 + resync config.guess, config.sub
10637 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
10638 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
10639 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
10640 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
10642 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
10643 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
10646 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10647 + update generated html files from manpages.
10648 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
10650 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
10651 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
10652 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
10653 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
10654 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10655 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
10656 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
10657 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
10660 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
10661 wrapping at the right margin.
10662 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
10663 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
10664 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
10666 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
10667 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
10668 understands how to run tbl automatically.
10669 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
10670 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10671 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
10672 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
10673 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
10674 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
10675 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
10676 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
10677 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
10678 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
10679 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
10680 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
10681 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
10682 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
10683 option --with-libtool.
10684 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
10685 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
10686 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
10687 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
10688 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
10691 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
10692 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
10693 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
10694 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
10695 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
10696 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
10697 > patch by Todd C Miller:
10698 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
10699 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
10700 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
10701 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
10702 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
10703 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
10704 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
10705 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
10706 to set up a 3-button mouse.
10707 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
10708 replace select() call.
10711 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
10712 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
10713 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
10714 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10715 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
10716 cursor report before decoding.
10717 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
10718 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
10719 (see assume_default_colors()).
10720 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
10721 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
10723 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
10724 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
10725 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
10727 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
10728 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
10729 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
10730 for that capability.
10731 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
10732 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
10733 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
10734 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
10735 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
10736 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
10739 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
10740 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
10741 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
10742 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
10743 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
10744 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
10745 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
10746 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
10747 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
10749 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
10750 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
10751 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
10752 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
10753 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
10754 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
10755 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10758 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
10759 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
10760 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
10761 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
10762 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
10764 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
10765 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
10766 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
10767 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
10768 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
10769 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
10770 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
10771 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
10772 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
10773 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
10774 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
10775 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
10776 the expected number of parameters.
10777 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
10778 the option value is indeed a number.
10779 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
10780 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
10781 from the other signals.
10784 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
10785 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
10786 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
10789 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
10790 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
10792 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
10793 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
10794 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
10796 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
10797 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
10798 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
10799 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
10800 character set attribute from the displayed text.
10801 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
10802 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
10803 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
10804 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
10805 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
10806 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10809 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
10810 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
10811 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
10812 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
10813 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
10814 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
10815 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10816 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
10817 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
10818 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
10820 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
10821 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
10823 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
10824 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
10825 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
10826 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
10827 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
10828 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
10831 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
10832 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
10833 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
10834 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
10835 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
10836 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
10837 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
10838 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
10839 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
10840 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10841 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
10842 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
10843 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
10844 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
10845 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
10847 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
10848 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
10849 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
10852 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
10853 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10854 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
10855 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
10857 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
10858 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
10859 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
10860 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
10861 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10862 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
10863 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
10864 rules in makefiles.
10865 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
10866 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
10867 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
10868 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
10869 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
10870 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
10871 a default program-prefix.
10872 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
10873 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
10876 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
10877 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
10878 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
10879 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
10880 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
10881 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
10882 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
10883 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
10884 although the name is misleading).
10885 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
10886 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
10887 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
10888 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
10891 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
10892 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
10893 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
10895 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
10896 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
10898 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
10899 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
10900 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
10902 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
10903 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
10904 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
10905 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
10906 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
10907 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
10908 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
10909 test/configure script.
10910 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
10911 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
10912 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
10915 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
10918 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
10919 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
10920 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
10921 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
10922 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
10924 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
10925 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
10926 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
10928 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
10929 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
10932 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
10933 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10934 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
10935 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
10936 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
10937 there's still the explicit configure option).
10938 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
10939 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
10940 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
10941 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
10942 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
10943 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
10944 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
10945 simplify working around implementations that define random
10946 combinations of the related macros to zero.
10947 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
10948 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
10949 > patches by Bruno Haible:
10950 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
10951 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
10952 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
10953 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
10954 out-of-range value.
10957 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
10958 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10959 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
10960 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
10961 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
10962 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
10963 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
10964 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
10965 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
10966 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
10967 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
10968 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
10969 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
10970 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
10973 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10974 + document configure options in INSTALL.
10975 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
10976 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
10977 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
10978 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
10979 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
10980 list of generated functions.
10981 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
10982 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
10983 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
10985 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
10986 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
10987 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
10988 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
10989 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
10991 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
10992 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
10993 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
10994 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
10995 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
10996 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
10997 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
10998 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
10999 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
11000 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
11001 examples cited in announce.html
11002 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
11003 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
11004 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
11005 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
11006 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
11007 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
11008 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
11009 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
11012 20000701 pre-release
11013 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
11014 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
11015 $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
11016 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
11017 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
11018 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
11020 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
11022 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
11024 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
11025 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
11026 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
11027 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
11028 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
11030 20000624 pre-release
11031 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
11032 that happen to render the same display colors.
11033 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
11034 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
11035 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
11036 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
11037 normalized value for cursor_address.
11038 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
11041 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
11042 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
11043 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
11044 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
11045 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
11046 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
11047 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
11048 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
11049 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
11050 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
11051 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
11052 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
11053 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
11057 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
11058 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
11059 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
11060 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
11061 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
11062 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
11063 allows larger symbol tables.
11064 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
11065 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
11066 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
11067 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
11071 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
11072 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
11073 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
11074 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
11075 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
11076 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
11077 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
11078 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
11079 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
11080 + add a "make libs" rule.
11081 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
11082 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
11083 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
11084 with existing ncurses libraries.
11087 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
11088 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
11089 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
11090 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
11091 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
11092 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
11093 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
11094 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
11095 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
11096 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
11097 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
11098 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
11099 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
11100 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
11103 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
11104 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
11105 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
11106 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
11110 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
11111 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
11112 <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>).
11113 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
11114 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
11115 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
11118 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
11119 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
11120 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
11121 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
11122 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
11124 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
11125 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
11126 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
11127 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
11128 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
11129 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
11130 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
11131 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
11134 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
11135 aixterm entries -TD
11136 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
11137 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
11138 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
11139 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
11140 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
11141 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
11142 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
11143 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
11144 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
11145 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
11146 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
11147 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
11150 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
11151 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
11152 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
11153 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
11154 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11155 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
11156 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
11157 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
11158 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
11159 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
11160 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
11161 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
11162 means that it will not recur for that special case.
11163 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
11164 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
11165 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
11166 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11169 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
11170 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
11171 bg300-rv in esr's version.
11172 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
11173 (fixes Debian #61088).
11174 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
11175 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
11176 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
11179 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
11180 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
11181 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
11182 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
11183 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
11186 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
11187 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
11188 improvement in setting default colors.
11189 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
11190 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
11191 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
11193 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
11194 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
11195 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
11196 check for buffer overflow.
11197 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
11198 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
11199 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
11200 such as "infocmp -Fa".
11203 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
11204 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
11205 is not permitted in termcap.
11206 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
11207 integrating 20000318.
11210 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
11211 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
11212 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
11213 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
11215 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
11216 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
11217 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
11218 result for OS/2 EMX.
11219 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
11220 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
11221 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
11222 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
11223 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
11224 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
11227 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
11228 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
11229 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
11231 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
11232 displaying string capabilities.
11233 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
11234 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
11235 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
11236 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
11237 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
11238 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
11240 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
11241 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
11243 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
11244 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
11245 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
11246 may not produce the same result as before.
11247 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
11248 _nc_resolve_uses().
11249 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
11250 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
11252 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
11253 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
11255 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
11256 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11257 + drop support for gnat 3.10
11258 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
11259 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
11262 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
11263 made it check only one entry at a time.
11264 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
11266 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
11267 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
11268 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
11269 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
11270 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
11271 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
11272 address out of bounds.
11273 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
11274 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
11275 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
11276 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
11278 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
11279 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
11280 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
11282 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
11285 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
11286 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
11287 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
11288 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
11290 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
11291 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
11292 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
11293 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
11294 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
11295 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
11297 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
11298 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
11299 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
11300 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
11301 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
11302 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
11303 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
11304 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
11307 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
11308 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11309 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11310 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
11311 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
11312 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
11316 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
11317 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
11318 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11319 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
11320 colors are white on black.
11321 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
11322 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
11323 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
11324 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
11325 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
11328 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
11329 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
11330 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
11331 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
11332 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
11333 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
11334 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
11335 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
11336 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
11337 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
11338 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
11341 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
11342 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
11343 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
11344 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
11345 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
11346 to wait indefinitely.
11349 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
11350 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
11351 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
11352 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
11353 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
11354 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
11355 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
11356 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
11357 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
11358 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11359 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
11360 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
11364 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
11365 programs build with c++/g++.
11366 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
11367 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
11368 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
11369 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
11370 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
11371 + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and
11372 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
11373 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
11376 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
11377 for ncurses 5.0 -TD
11378 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
11379 terminfo entries -TD
11380 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
11381 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
11382 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
11383 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
11385 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
11386 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
11388 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
11390 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
11391 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
11392 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
11393 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
11394 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
11395 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
11396 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
11397 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
11398 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
11402 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
11403 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
11404 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
11405 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
11406 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
11407 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
11408 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
11409 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
11410 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
11411 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
11412 use_extended_names().
11415 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
11416 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
11417 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
11418 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
11419 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
11420 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
11421 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
11422 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
11423 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
11424 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
11425 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
11426 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
11427 + add manpage for infotocap
11430 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
11431 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
11432 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
11433 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
11434 than terminfo only.
11435 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
11436 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
11437 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
11438 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
11439 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
11440 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
11441 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
11442 initc for xterm-88color.
11443 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
11447 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
11448 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
11450 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
11451 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
11452 SP, since it is part of that struct.
11453 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
11455 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
11456 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
11457 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
11458 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
11459 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
11460 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
11461 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
11462 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
11463 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
11465 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
11466 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
11467 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11468 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
11470 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
11473 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
11474 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
11475 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
11476 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
11477 over the use of default colors.
11478 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
11479 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
11480 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
11481 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
11482 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
11483 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
11484 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
11485 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
11488 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
11489 <robert@progplus.com>)
11490 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
11491 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
11492 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
11495 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
11496 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
11497 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
11499 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
11500 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
11501 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
11502 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
11503 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
11504 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
11505 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
11506 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
11507 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
11508 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
11509 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
11510 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
11512 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
11513 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
11516 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
11517 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
11519 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
11520 (request by Bob van der Poel).
11521 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
11522 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
11523 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
11524 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
11525 libraries by default.
11526 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
11528 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
11529 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
11531 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
11532 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
11533 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
11534 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
11535 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
11536 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
11537 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
11539 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
11541 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
11542 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
11543 advice from Bela Lubkin).
11544 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
11545 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11546 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
11547 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
11548 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
11549 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
11552 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
11555 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
11556 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
11557 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
11558 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
11559 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
11560 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
11561 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11562 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
11563 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
11564 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
11567 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
11568 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
11569 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11570 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
11571 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
11572 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
11573 <bledp@voila.fr>)).
11574 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
11575 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
11576 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
11577 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
11578 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
11579 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11580 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
11581 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
11582 is used), and in color.
11583 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
11584 shared library rules.
11587 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
11588 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
11589 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
11590 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
11591 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
11592 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
11593 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
11594 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
11595 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
11596 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
11597 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
11598 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
11599 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
11600 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
11601 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
11602 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
11603 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11606 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
11607 <j@interface-business.de>).
11608 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
11609 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
11610 that hard-links work on Unix again.
11611 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
11612 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
11613 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
11616 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
11617 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
11618 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
11619 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
11620 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
11621 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
11622 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
11623 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
11624 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
11625 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
11626 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
11627 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
11628 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
11631 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
11632 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
11633 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
11634 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
11635 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
11636 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
11637 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
11638 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
11639 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
11640 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
11641 function works only for sockets.
11642 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
11643 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
11644 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
11645 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
11646 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
11647 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
11648 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
11649 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
11650 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
11651 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
11654 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
11655 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
11656 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
11657 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
11658 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
11659 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
11660 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
11663 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
11664 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
11665 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
11667 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
11668 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
11669 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
11670 nonfunctional link().
11671 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
11672 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
11675 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
11676 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
11677 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
11680 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
11681 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
11682 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
11683 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
11684 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
11685 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
11686 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11687 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
11688 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
11689 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
11690 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
11691 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
11692 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
11693 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
11694 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
11695 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
11696 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
11697 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
11698 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
11699 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
11702 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
11703 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
11704 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
11705 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11706 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
11707 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
11708 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
11709 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
11710 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
11711 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
11712 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
11713 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
11714 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
11715 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
11716 short-circuit expression evaluation.
11717 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
11718 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
11720 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
11721 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
11722 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
11723 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
11724 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
11728 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
11729 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
11731 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
11732 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
11733 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
11736 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
11737 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
11738 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11739 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
11740 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
11741 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
11742 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
11743 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
11745 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
11746 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
11747 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11750 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
11751 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11752 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
11753 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11754 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
11755 --with-rcs-ids option.
11758 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
11759 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
11761 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
11762 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
11763 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
11767 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
11768 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
11769 BeOS predefines a bool type.
11770 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
11771 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
11772 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
11773 option to infocmp -TD
11774 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11775 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
11776 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
11777 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
11778 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
11779 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
11780 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
11783 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11784 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
11785 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
11786 + change interface version-number to 1.0
11787 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
11790 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
11791 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
11792 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
11793 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
11794 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
11795 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
11796 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
11797 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
11798 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
11799 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
11801 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
11802 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
11803 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
11806 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
11807 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
11808 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
11810 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
11811 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
11814 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
11815 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11816 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
11817 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
11818 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
11821 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
11825 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
11826 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
11827 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
11828 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
11829 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
11831 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
11832 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
11833 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
11834 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
11837 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
11838 fields, and showing forms within panels.
11839 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
11840 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
11841 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
11842 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
11843 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
11844 ownership may change).
11847 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
11849 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
11850 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
11851 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11852 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
11853 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
11854 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
11855 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
11857 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
11858 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
11859 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
11860 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
11861 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
11862 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
11865 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
11866 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
11868 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
11869 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11870 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
11871 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11874 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
11875 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
11876 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11877 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
11878 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
11879 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
11883 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
11884 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11885 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
11886 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11887 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
11888 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
11889 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
11890 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
11893 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
11894 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
11895 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
11896 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11899 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
11900 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11903 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
11904 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
11905 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
11906 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
11907 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11908 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
11909 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
11910 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
11911 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
11912 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
11913 reset for the next newterm.
11914 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
11915 terminal has true SLKs.
11916 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
11919 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
11920 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
11921 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
11922 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11923 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
11924 read of the extended capabilities.
11925 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
11926 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
11927 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
11928 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
11929 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
11930 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
11931 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
11932 throughout ncurses library.
11933 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
11934 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
11936 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
11937 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11938 + regenerate some of the html documentation
11939 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
11942 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
11943 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
11944 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
11945 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD
11946 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
11948 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
11950 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
11951 defined for a keycode.
11952 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
11953 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
11954 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
11955 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
11956 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
11958 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11959 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11960 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
11961 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
11962 no longer required.
11963 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
11964 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
11966 + modify configuration scripts to
11967 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
11968 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
11969 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
11970 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
11971 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
11972 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
11973 + rename ada_include directory to src.
11976 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
11977 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
11978 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
11982 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
11983 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
11984 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
11985 though the problem is more general.
11986 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11987 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
11988 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
11989 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
11991 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
11992 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
11993 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
11996 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
11997 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11998 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
11999 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
12000 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
12001 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12002 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
12003 be any substring rather than the prefix.
12004 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
12005 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
12006 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
12007 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
12008 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
12009 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
12010 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
12011 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
12012 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
12013 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
12014 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
12015 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
12016 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
12017 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
12018 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
12019 --with-shlib-version option.
12022 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
12023 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
12024 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
12025 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
12026 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
12027 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
12028 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
12029 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
12030 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
12031 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
12032 intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
12033 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
12034 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
12035 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
12036 source distribution.
12039 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
12040 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
12041 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
12043 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
12044 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
12045 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
12046 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
12047 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
12050 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
12053 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
12054 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
12055 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
12056 Alexander V Lukyanov).
12057 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
12058 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
12059 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
12060 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
12061 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12062 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
12063 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
12064 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
12065 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
12066 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
12068 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
12069 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
12070 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
12071 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
12074 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
12076 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
12077 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
12078 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
12079 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
12080 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
12081 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
12082 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
12083 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
12084 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
12085 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
12086 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
12087 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
12088 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
12089 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
12090 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
12091 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
12092 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
12096 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
12097 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
12098 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
12099 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
12100 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
12101 running screen built with ncurses.
12102 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
12103 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
12104 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
12107 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
12110 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
12111 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
12112 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
12113 by a Debian bug report).
12114 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
12115 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
12117 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
12118 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
12119 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
12120 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
12124 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
12125 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
12126 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
12127 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
12128 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
12129 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
12130 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
12131 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
12132 (reported by H.J.Lu).
12135 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
12136 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
12137 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
12138 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
12139 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
12140 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
12141 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
12142 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
12143 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
12144 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
12145 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12146 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
12148 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
12149 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
12151 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
12153 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
12155 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
12156 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
12160 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
12161 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
12162 address rather than its length.
12163 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
12164 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
12165 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
12166 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
12167 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
12168 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
12169 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
12170 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
12171 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
12172 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
12175 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
12176 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
12178 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
12179 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
12180 for an older version of ncurses.
12181 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
12182 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
12183 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
12184 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
12185 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
12186 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
12187 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
12188 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
12189 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12190 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
12191 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
12192 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
12194 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
12195 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
12198 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
12199 (request by Larry Virden).
12200 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12201 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
12202 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
12203 changes to ncurses library.
12204 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
12205 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
12206 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
12207 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12208 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
12209 + some Ada95 cosmetics
12210 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
12211 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
12212 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
12215 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
12216 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
12217 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
12218 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
12219 proposed changes to ncurses library.
12220 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
12221 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
12222 broken configure scripts.
12225 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
12227 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
12228 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
12229 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
12231 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
12232 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
12236 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
12237 with --srcdir option.
12238 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
12239 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
12240 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
12241 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
12242 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
12243 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12246 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
12247 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
12248 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
12250 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
12251 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
12252 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
12253 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
12254 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
12255 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
12256 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
12257 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
12260 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
12261 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12264 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
12265 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
12266 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
12267 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
12268 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
12269 some older entries - TD
12270 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
12271 since that is a little more efficient.
12272 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
12273 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
12274 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
12275 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
12276 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
12277 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
12279 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
12281 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12282 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
12284 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
12285 + use format string for printing strings.
12286 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
12289 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
12290 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
12291 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
12292 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
12293 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
12294 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
12295 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
12296 > patches by Todd C Miller:
12297 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
12298 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
12299 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
12300 dealing with env variables again.
12301 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
12302 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
12303 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
12304 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
12305 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
12306 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12307 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
12308 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
12309 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
12310 newhash data to SP struct.
12311 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
12312 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
12313 function's parameter which is deleted.
12314 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
12315 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
12316 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
12317 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
12321 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
12322 consistent treatment.
12323 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
12324 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
12325 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
12326 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
12329 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
12330 capability name, as in SVr4.
12331 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
12332 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
12333 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
12336 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
12337 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
12338 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
12339 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
12340 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
12341 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
12342 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
12343 > from esr's terminfo version:
12344 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
12345 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
12346 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
12349 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
12350 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
12351 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
12352 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
12353 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
12354 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
12355 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
12356 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
12357 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
12358 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
12362 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
12363 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
12364 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
12365 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
12366 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
12369 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
12370 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
12374 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
12375 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
12376 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
12377 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
12378 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
12379 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
12380 as obtained via ioctl.
12383 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
12384 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
12385 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
12386 turning attributes off.
12387 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
12388 initializing multiple screens.
12389 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
12390 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
12391 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
12394 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
12395 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
12396 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
12397 with Solaris curses).
12398 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
12399 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
12400 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
12401 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
12402 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
12403 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
12404 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
12405 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
12408 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
12409 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
12410 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
12411 (request by QingLong).
12412 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
12413 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
12414 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
12415 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
12417 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
12418 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
12419 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
12420 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
12421 otherwise simply exit with an error.
12424 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
12425 "_g" for a debug build).
12426 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
12427 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
12428 compile/link working Ada95 program.
12429 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
12430 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
12431 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
12432 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
12433 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
12434 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
12438 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
12439 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
12440 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
12441 corresponds to vt100.
12442 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
12443 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
12446 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
12447 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
12448 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
12449 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
12450 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
12451 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
12452 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
12453 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
12454 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
12455 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12458 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
12459 several minor errors/omissions.
12460 + implement tparm %l format.
12461 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
12463 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
12466 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
12467 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
12468 to be written to large screens.
12469 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
12470 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
12471 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
12472 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
12473 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
12475 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
12476 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12477 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
12478 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
12481 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
12483 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
12485 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
12486 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
12487 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
12488 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12489 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
12490 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
12491 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
12493 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
12494 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
12496 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
12499 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
12500 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
12501 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
12502 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
12503 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12504 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
12505 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12506 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
12507 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
12508 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
12511 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
12512 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12513 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility
12514 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
12515 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
12516 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
12517 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
12518 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
12519 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
12520 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
12521 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
12522 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
12523 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
12526 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
12527 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
12528 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
12529 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
12530 which contains a colon in the description field.
12531 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
12532 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
12533 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
12535 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
12536 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
12539 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
12540 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
12541 color pair numbers.
12542 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
12543 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
12544 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
12545 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12546 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
12547 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
12548 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
12549 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
12550 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
12551 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
12552 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
12553 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
12554 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
12555 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
12556 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
12557 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
12558 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
12559 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
12560 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
12561 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12562 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
12563 comparisons out of inner loop.
12566 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
12567 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
12568 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
12569 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
12570 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
12571 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
12572 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
12573 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
12574 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
12576 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
12577 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
12578 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
12581 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
12582 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
12583 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
12584 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
12585 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
12586 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
12587 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
12588 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
12589 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
12590 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
12593 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
12594 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
12595 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
12596 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
12598 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
12599 avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
12600 by Juergen Pfeifer).
12603 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
12604 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
12607 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
12608 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
12609 uses them when they are available.
12610 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
12611 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
12612 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
12613 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
12615 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
12618 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
12619 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
12620 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
12621 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
12623 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12624 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
12625 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
12626 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
12627 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
12628 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
12629 use --disable-overwrite).
12630 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
12631 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
12632 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
12633 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
12634 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
12635 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
12636 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
12637 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
12638 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
12642 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
12643 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12644 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
12645 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
12646 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
12647 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
12648 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
12649 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
12651 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
12652 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
12653 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
12654 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
12656 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
12657 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
12658 parameter according to XSI.
12659 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
12660 reflect above enhancements.
12663 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
12664 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
12665 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
12666 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
12668 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
12670 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
12672 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
12673 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
12674 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
12677 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
12678 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
12679 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12680 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
12681 <claesg@algonet.se>).
12682 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
12683 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
12686 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
12687 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
12688 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
12690 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
12691 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
12692 by Florian La Roche).
12693 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
12694 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
12695 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
12696 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12699 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
12700 distributions, though it is retained in development.
12701 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
12703 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
12704 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
12705 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
12706 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
12707 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
12710 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
12712 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
12713 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
12714 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
12715 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
12716 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
12717 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
12719 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
12720 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
12721 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
12723 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
12724 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
12725 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
12728 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
12729 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
12731 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
12732 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
12734 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
12736 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
12738 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
12740 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
12741 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
12742 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
12743 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
12744 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
12746 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
12747 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
12749 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
12750 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
12751 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
12752 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
12753 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
12754 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
12755 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
12756 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
12757 turn off attributes inconsistently.
12760 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
12761 test for no_color_video.
12762 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
12764 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
12765 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
12766 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
12767 <brett@xylan.com>).
12768 > from reports by Fred Fish:
12769 + add configure-test for isascii
12770 + add configure-test for -lm library.
12771 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
12772 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
12773 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
12774 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
12775 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
12776 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
12777 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
12779 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
12780 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
12782 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
12783 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
12784 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
12785 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
12786 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
12789 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
12790 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
12792 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
12794 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
12795 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
12796 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
12798 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
12799 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
12801 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
12803 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
12804 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
12805 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
12806 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12807 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
12808 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
12809 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12810 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
12811 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
12812 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
12813 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
12814 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
12815 fields are also always inactive.
12816 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
12817 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
12820 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
12821 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
12822 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
12823 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
12824 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
12825 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
12826 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
12827 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
12828 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
12831 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
12832 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
12833 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
12834 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
12835 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
12837 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12838 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
12839 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
12840 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
12841 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
12842 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
12843 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
12844 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
12845 cross-platform compatibility.
12846 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
12847 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
12848 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12849 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
12851 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
12855 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
12856 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
12857 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12858 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
12859 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
12860 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
12861 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
12862 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
12863 that simply cannot scroll.
12864 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
12865 embedded \200 characters are matched.
12866 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
12870 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
12871 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
12872 functions from the build.
12873 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
12874 functions as a separate library.
12875 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
12876 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
12877 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
12878 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
12879 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
12880 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
12881 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
12882 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
12883 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
12885 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12886 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
12887 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
12890 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
12891 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
12893 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
12894 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
12895 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
12896 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
12899 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
12900 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
12901 + add configure check for 'tack'.
12902 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
12903 for Debian configuration.
12904 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
12906 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
12907 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
12909 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
12910 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
12911 case of wide characters in chtype.
12912 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
12913 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
12914 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
12917 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
12918 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
12919 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
12920 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
12921 have set root's umask to 077.
12922 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
12923 end of output when they had embedded comments.
12924 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
12925 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
12926 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
12927 correct logic for handling backslashes.
12928 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
12929 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
12930 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
12931 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
12932 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
12933 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
12935 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12936 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
12938 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
12939 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
12941 + resync of the html version of the manpages
12944 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
12945 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
12947 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
12948 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
12949 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
12950 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
12951 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12952 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
12953 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
12954 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
12958 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
12960 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
12961 comments from Daniel Weaver.
12962 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
12963 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
12964 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
12965 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
12967 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
12968 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
12969 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
12971 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
12972 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
12975 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
12979 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
12980 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
12981 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
12982 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
12983 in call to delay_output().
12984 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
12985 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
12986 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
12987 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
12988 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
12990 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
12991 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
12992 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
12993 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
12994 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
12995 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
12996 so that will work on NeXT.
12997 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
12998 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
13001 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
13003 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
13005 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
13006 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
13007 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
13008 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
13009 when that feature is not configured.
13010 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
13011 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
13012 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
13013 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
13014 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
13015 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
13016 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
13017 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
13020 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
13022 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
13023 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
13025 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
13027 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
13028 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
13031 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
13032 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
13033 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
13034 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
13035 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
13036 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
13037 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
13038 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
13039 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
13041 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
13042 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
13043 tputs() if called from that function.
13044 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
13045 tputs works when SP is not set.
13046 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13047 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
13048 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
13049 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation
13050 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
13051 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
13054 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
13055 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
13056 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
13057 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
13058 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
13059 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
13060 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
13061 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
13062 _nc_update_screensize().
13063 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
13065 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
13066 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
13067 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
13068 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13069 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
13070 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13071 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
13072 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
13073 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
13074 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
13076 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
13080 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
13081 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
13082 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
13084 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
13085 click-interval without modifying it.
13086 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
13087 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
13089 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
13090 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
13091 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
13092 other ncurses headers.
13093 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
13094 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
13095 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
13096 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
13097 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
13098 characters output in delay_output().
13099 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
13100 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
13101 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
13102 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13103 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
13105 + typo in configure --help.
13106 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
13107 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
13108 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
13109 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
13112 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13113 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
13116 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
13117 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
13118 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
13119 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
13120 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
13122 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
13123 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
13124 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
13125 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
13126 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
13127 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
13128 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
13129 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
13130 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
13131 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
13132 form (sorted, unique mapping).
13133 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
13134 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
13135 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13136 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
13137 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13138 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13139 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
13140 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
13141 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
13142 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
13143 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
13144 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
13145 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13146 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
13147 NCursesPanel class.
13148 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
13149 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
13150 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
13151 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
13152 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
13153 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
13157 + add 'deinstall' rules.
13158 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
13159 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
13160 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
13161 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
13162 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
13163 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
13165 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
13166 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13167 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
13169 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
13170 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
13171 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
13172 scripts are also provided.
13175 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
13177 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
13178 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
13179 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
13180 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
13181 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
13182 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
13183 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
13184 generating lint library.
13185 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
13187 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
13188 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
13189 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
13190 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
13191 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
13192 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
13193 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
13194 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
13195 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
13196 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
13198 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13199 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
13201 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
13203 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
13204 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
13205 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
13206 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
13207 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
13208 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
13209 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13210 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
13211 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
13215 + modify rain.c to use color.
13216 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
13217 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
13218 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
13219 of configure cache variables in 970906.
13220 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
13221 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
13222 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
13223 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
13224 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
13225 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
13226 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
13227 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
13228 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
13229 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13230 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
13232 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
13233 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
13234 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
13235 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
13236 NCursesPanel class.
13237 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
13238 NCursesWindow class.
13239 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
13240 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
13241 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
13242 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
13244 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
13245 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
13246 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
13247 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
13248 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
13249 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
13251 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
13252 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
13253 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
13254 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
13255 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
13256 already disconnected.
13257 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
13258 navigation requests.
13259 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
13260 case-insensitiva comparison routine.
13261 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
13262 forms field by index.
13263 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
13265 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
13266 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
13267 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
13268 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
13269 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
13270 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
13271 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
13272 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
13273 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
13275 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
13276 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
13277 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
13279 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
13280 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13281 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
13282 know that auto_right_margin is true.
13283 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
13284 shifting character to LR corner.
13285 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
13286 terminal right margin mode is known.
13287 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
13288 _nc_scroll_window().
13289 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
13290 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
13292 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
13293 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
13294 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
13295 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
13297 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
13298 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
13299 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
13300 the terminal window is resized.
13303 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
13304 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
13305 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
13306 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
13307 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
13308 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
13309 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
13310 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
13311 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13312 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
13313 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
13315 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
13316 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
13317 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
13319 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
13320 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
13322 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
13326 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
13327 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
13328 lib_printw.c functions.
13329 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
13330 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
13331 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
13332 force the screen to scroll.
13335 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
13337 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
13339 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
13340 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
13342 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
13343 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
13344 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13345 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
13346 was in the wrong order.
13347 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
13349 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
13351 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
13352 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
13353 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
13354 invoke wechochar() instead.
13355 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
13358 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
13359 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
13360 work properly when we add calls to that function.
13361 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
13362 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
13363 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13364 + several fixes to getch:
13365 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
13366 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
13367 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
13368 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
13370 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
13371 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
13372 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
13373 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
13374 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
13376 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
13377 line-breakout optimization
13378 + improve hashmap.c by
13379 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
13380 2. not marking lines with offset 0
13381 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
13382 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
13383 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
13384 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
13386 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
13387 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
13388 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
13389 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
13391 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
13393 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
13394 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
13395 stored/retrieved via set_term().
13396 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
13400 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
13401 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
13402 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
13404 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
13405 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
13406 before looking for (n)curses library.
13407 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
13408 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
13409 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
13410 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
13411 include ncurses_cfg.h
13412 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
13413 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
13414 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13415 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
13416 example firstlast.c
13417 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
13418 common subexpressions.
13419 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
13420 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
13421 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
13422 against the background character.
13423 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
13424 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
13425 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
13426 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
13427 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
13428 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
13429 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
13430 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
13431 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
13434 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
13435 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
13436 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
13437 terminal type ncr7900).
13438 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
13439 package is built with an install-prefix.
13440 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
13441 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
13442 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
13443 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
13444 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
13445 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
13446 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
13447 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
13448 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
13449 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13450 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
13451 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
13452 by Juergen Pfeifer).
13455 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
13456 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
13457 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
13458 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
13459 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
13460 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
13461 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
13462 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
13463 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
13464 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
13465 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
13468 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
13469 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
13470 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
13471 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
13472 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
13473 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
13474 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
13475 configuration of wide-characters.
13476 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
13477 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
13478 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
13479 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
13480 does not have getttynam().
13481 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
13482 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
13483 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
13484 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13485 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
13486 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13487 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
13488 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
13489 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
13490 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
13491 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
13495 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
13496 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13497 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
13498 options should be accompanied by a message.
13499 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
13500 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
13502 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
13504 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13505 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
13506 better when csr is not available.
13507 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
13508 after failure to scroll one.
13509 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
13510 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
13511 case and wrong string in TRACE.
13512 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13513 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
13517 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
13518 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
13520 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
13521 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
13522 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
13523 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
13524 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
13527 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13528 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
13529 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
13531 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
13534 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
13535 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
13536 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
13537 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
13538 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
13539 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
13540 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
13541 (reported by Larry Virden).
13542 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
13543 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
13545 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13546 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
13547 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
13548 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
13552 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13553 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
13554 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
13555 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
13556 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
13558 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
13559 terminfo description to the stored strings.
13560 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
13561 terminfo descriptions.
13562 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
13563 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
13564 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
13565 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
13566 option is a stopgap.
13567 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
13568 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
13571 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
13572 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
13573 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
13574 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
13575 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
13576 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
13580 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
13581 lines in curscr that are shifted.
13582 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
13583 than a series of function calls.
13584 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
13585 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
13586 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
13587 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
13588 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
13589 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
13590 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
13591 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13592 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13595 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
13596 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
13597 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
13598 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
13599 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
13600 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
13601 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
13602 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
13603 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
13604 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
13605 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
13606 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
13607 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
13608 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
13609 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13610 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
13611 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13612 + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
13613 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13616 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
13617 use only the fallback data.
13618 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
13619 terminal descriptions.
13620 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
13621 still assume there's an ncurses.h
13622 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
13623 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
13624 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
13625 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
13626 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
13627 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
13629 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
13630 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
13631 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
13632 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
13633 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
13634 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
13635 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
13637 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
13639 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
13640 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
13642 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
13644 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
13645 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
13646 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
13647 original implementation (1.9.6).
13648 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
13649 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
13650 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
13651 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
13653 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
13654 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
13655 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
13656 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
13657 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
13658 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13659 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
13660 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
13662 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
13663 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
13664 field is not possible.
13665 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
13666 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
13667 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
13668 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
13670 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
13671 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
13672 in forms/menus libraries.
13675 + add description of xterm-16color.
13676 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
13677 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
13679 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
13680 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
13681 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
13682 works properly w/o first doing "make".
13683 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
13684 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
13686 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
13687 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
13688 bounding box without tidying up).
13689 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
13690 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
13691 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
13693 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
13694 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13695 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
13696 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
13697 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13700 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
13701 option is specified.
13702 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
13703 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
13705 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
13706 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
13707 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
13708 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
13709 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
13710 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
13711 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
13712 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
13713 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
13714 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
13715 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
13716 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
13717 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
13718 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
13720 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
13721 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
13722 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13723 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
13724 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
13725 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13726 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
13727 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
13728 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13729 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
13730 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
13732 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
13734 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
13736 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
13737 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
13740 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
13741 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
13742 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
13743 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
13745 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
13746 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
13747 during a call to newwin.
13748 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
13749 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
13750 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
13751 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
13752 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
13753 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13754 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
13755 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
13758 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
13759 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
13760 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
13761 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
13763 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
13766 970505 4.1 pre-release
13767 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
13769 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
13770 unnecessary recompiles.
13771 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
13772 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
13773 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
13774 overwrite of symbolic links.
13775 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
13776 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
13777 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
13778 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
13779 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
13780 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
13781 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
13782 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
13783 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
13784 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
13785 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
13786 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
13787 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
13788 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
13792 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
13793 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
13794 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
13796 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
13797 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
13798 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
13799 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
13800 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
13801 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
13802 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
13803 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
13804 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
13806 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
13807 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
13808 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
13809 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
13811 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
13812 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
13813 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13814 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
13815 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13816 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
13817 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13818 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
13819 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
13820 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
13821 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13824 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
13825 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
13826 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
13827 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
13828 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
13829 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
13830 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
13831 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
13832 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
13833 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
13834 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
13835 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
13836 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
13837 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
13838 or redefinition within an acsc string.
13839 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
13840 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
13841 regression testing.
13842 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
13843 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
13846 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
13847 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
13848 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
13849 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
13850 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
13851 match SVr4 documentation.
13852 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
13853 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
13854 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
13857 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
13858 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
13859 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
13860 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
13861 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
13862 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
13863 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
13864 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
13867 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
13868 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
13869 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
13871 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
13872 --enable/--with values.
13873 + add configure option --enable-big-core
13874 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
13875 + check for C++ builtin.h header
13876 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
13877 parameter from the expression.
13878 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
13879 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
13881 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
13882 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
13883 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
13884 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
13885 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
13886 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
13889 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
13890 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
13891 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
13892 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
13893 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13896 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
13897 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
13898 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
13899 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
13900 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
13901 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
13902 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
13903 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
13904 (reported by Ward Horner).
13905 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
13906 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
13909 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
13910 even if "make all" is not done first.
13911 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
13912 expanded functions with ATAC.
13913 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
13914 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
13918 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
13920 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
13922 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
13925 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
13926 addressing request by Ward Horner.
13927 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
13928 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
13929 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
13930 a pointer-increment.
13931 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
13935 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
13936 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
13938 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
13939 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
13940 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
13941 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
13942 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
13943 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
13944 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
13945 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
13947 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
13948 (reported by Ward Horner)
13949 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
13950 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
13951 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
13952 (reported by Gary Johnson).
13953 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
13954 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
13955 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
13956 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
13957 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
13958 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
13959 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
13960 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
13964 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
13965 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
13966 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
13967 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
13968 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
13969 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13970 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
13971 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
13972 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
13973 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
13976 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
13978 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
13979 the returned buffer.
13980 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
13981 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
13982 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
13983 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
13985 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
13986 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
13989 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
13990 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
13991 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13992 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
13994 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
13995 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13998 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
13999 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
14001 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
14003 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
14004 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
14005 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
14006 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
14008 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
14009 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
14010 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
14011 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
14014 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
14015 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
14016 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
14017 that machine - T.Dickey.
14018 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
14019 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
14020 linking against static libraries.
14021 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
14023 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
14024 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
14025 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
14026 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
14028 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
14029 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
14030 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
14031 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
14032 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
14035 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
14036 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
14037 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
14039 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
14040 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
14041 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
14042 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
14043 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
14044 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
14047 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
14049 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
14050 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
14051 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
14052 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
14053 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
14054 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
14055 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
14056 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
14057 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
14058 insert/delete line method.
14059 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
14060 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
14061 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
14062 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
14064 961229 (internal alpha)
14065 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
14066 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
14067 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
14068 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
14069 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
14070 there is data on stdin.
14071 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
14072 descriptors, needed for GPM.
14073 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
14074 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
14075 prevented patch from working properly -TD
14076 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
14077 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
14078 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
14079 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
14082 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
14083 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
14085 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
14088 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
14089 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
14090 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
14091 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
14093 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
14094 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
14095 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
14096 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
14097 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
14098 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
14100 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
14101 i.e., set current directory before linking.
14102 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
14103 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
14104 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
14105 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
14106 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
14107 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
14108 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
14109 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
14112 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
14113 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
14114 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
14115 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
14116 Solaris curses, which does this.
14119 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
14120 work with wider range of screen sizes.
14121 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
14122 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
14123 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
14125 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
14126 resize between endwin/refresh.
14127 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
14128 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
14129 terminal modes in 960907.
14130 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
14131 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
14133 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
14134 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
14135 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
14136 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
14137 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
14138 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
14139 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
14140 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
14141 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
14143 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
14144 (requested by Florian La Roche).
14145 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
14146 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
14147 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
14148 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
14149 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14152 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
14155 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
14156 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
14157 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
14158 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
14159 data used in ncurses library.
14160 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
14161 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
14162 Alexander V Lukyanov).
14163 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
14164 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
14165 beta may not be interchangeable).
14166 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
14168 961130 1.9.9g release
14169 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
14173 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
14174 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
14175 to avoid warning messages.
14176 + the panel overlap detection was broken
14177 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
14179 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
14183 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
14184 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
14185 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
14186 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
14187 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
14190 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
14191 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
14192 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
14196 + change ABI to 3.4
14197 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
14199 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
14201 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
14203 > patch #324 (ESR):
14204 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
14205 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
14206 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
14207 + add entry for color_xterm
14210 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
14211 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
14212 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
14213 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
14214 CANCELLED_STRING values.
14215 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
14216 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
14217 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
14218 delays when in autoplay mode.
14219 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
14220 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
14221 > patch #322 (ESR):
14222 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
14225 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
14226 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
14227 a spurious clear-screen.
14228 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
14229 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
14231 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
14232 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
14233 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
14234 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
14237 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
14238 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
14239 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
14240 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
14241 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
14242 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
14244 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
14245 distribution, as stated)
14246 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
14247 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
14248 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
14249 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
14250 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
14251 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
14252 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
14254 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
14255 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
14259 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
14260 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
14261 file (lib_screen.c).
14262 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
14263 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
14264 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
14265 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
14266 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
14267 rendered as octal constants.
14268 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
14269 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
14270 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
14271 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
14272 in the top-level command-parser.
14273 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
14274 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
14276 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
14277 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
14278 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
14281 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
14282 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
14283 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
14284 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
14285 (reported by Tim Mooney).
14286 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
14288 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
14292 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
14293 that are available.
14294 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
14295 the pointer was -1.
14298 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
14299 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
14300 lower-right corner.
14301 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
14302 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
14303 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
14304 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
14305 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
14306 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
14307 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
14308 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
14309 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
14310 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
14312 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
14313 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
14314 > patch #321 (ESR):
14315 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
14316 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
14317 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
14318 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
14321 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
14322 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
14323 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
14324 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
14325 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
14327 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
14328 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
14329 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
14330 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
14331 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
14332 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
14333 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
14334 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
14335 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
14336 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
14337 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
14338 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
14339 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
14341 + change ABI to 3.3
14342 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
14343 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
14344 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
14346 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
14347 Michael Elkins) - untested
14349 + correction to #317.
14351 + re-add _nc_hash_map
14352 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
14353 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
14354 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
14356 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
14358 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
14360 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
14362 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
14363 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14364 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
14365 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
14366 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
14367 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
14370 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
14372 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
14373 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
14374 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
14375 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
14376 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
14378 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
14381 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
14382 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14383 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
14384 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14385 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
14386 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
14389 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
14390 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
14391 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
14392 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
14393 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
14394 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
14395 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
14396 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
14397 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
14398 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
14399 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
14400 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
14401 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
14402 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
14403 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
14407 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14408 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
14409 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
14410 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
14412 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
14413 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
14414 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
14417 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
14418 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
14419 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
14422 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
14423 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14424 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
14425 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14428 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
14429 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
14430 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
14431 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
14432 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
14434 + add dtterm description
14435 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
14438 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
14439 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
14440 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
14441 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
14442 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
14445 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
14447 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
14449 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
14453 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
14454 (reported by William P Setzer)
14455 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
14456 (reported by Tim Mooney).
14458 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
14459 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
14460 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
14463 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
14465 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
14469 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
14470 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
14472 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
14473 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
14474 + add more symbols to infocmp.
14477 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
14478 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
14479 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
14481 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
14482 null), and tests that use it.
14483 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
14484 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
14485 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
14487 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
14489 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
14490 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
14491 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
14494 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
14495 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
14496 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
14497 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
14498 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
14499 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
14501 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
14502 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
14504 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
14505 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
14506 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
14507 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
14508 rather than constant (report by mib).
14509 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
14511 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
14512 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
14515 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
14516 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
14517 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
14519 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
14520 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
14521 Philippe De Muyter).
14524 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
14525 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
14527 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
14528 (reported by Zeyd).
14529 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
14530 (reported by David MacKenzie).
14531 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
14532 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
14533 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
14534 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
14535 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
14536 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
14537 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
14540 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
14541 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
14542 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
14544 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
14547 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
14548 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
14549 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
14550 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
14551 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
14552 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
14553 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
14554 than function keys in 'g' test.
14555 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
14556 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
14557 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
14558 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
14560 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
14562 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
14563 msgwin needed scrollok set.
14564 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
14565 between PutRange and InsStr
14566 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
14567 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
14569 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
14572 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
14573 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
14574 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
14576 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
14577 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
14578 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
14579 _yoffset to WINDOW).
14580 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
14581 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
14582 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
14583 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
14584 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
14585 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
14586 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
14587 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
14588 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
14591 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
14592 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
14593 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
14594 first entry in a list).
14595 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
14596 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
14599 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
14600 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
14601 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
14602 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
14603 with a shared-library configuration.
14604 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
14605 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
14606 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
14607 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
14608 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
14609 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
14610 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
14612 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
14613 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
14614 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
14615 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
14616 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
14618 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
14619 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
14620 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
14621 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14623 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
14624 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
14625 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
14627 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
14630 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
14631 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
14632 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
14633 + added rules for lintlib, lint
14634 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
14635 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
14636 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
14637 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
14638 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
14639 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
14640 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
14641 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
14642 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
14643 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
14646 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
14647 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
14648 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
14649 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
14650 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
14651 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
14653 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
14654 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
14655 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
14656 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
14658 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14659 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
14662 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
14663 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
14664 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
14665 <lav@yars.free.net>).
14666 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
14667 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
14668 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
14669 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
14671 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
14672 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
14673 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
14675 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
14676 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
14677 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
14678 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
14681 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
14685 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
14686 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
14687 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
14688 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
14689 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
14690 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
14691 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
14692 + added TRACE_IEVENT
14693 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
14695 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
14696 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
14697 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
14698 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
14699 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
14700 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
14701 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
14702 Alexander Lukyanov).
14703 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
14704 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
14705 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
14706 is not part of X/Open Curses).
14707 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
14708 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
14711 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
14712 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
14713 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
14714 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
14715 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
14716 "#include" if needed.
14719 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
14720 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
14723 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
14724 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
14725 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
14729 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
14730 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
14731 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
14732 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
14733 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
14734 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
14735 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
14736 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
14738 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
14740 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
14742 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
14743 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
14744 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
14745 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
14750 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
14751 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
14752 K&R-style substitution)
14753 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
14754 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
14755 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
14756 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
14757 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
14758 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
14759 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
14760 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
14761 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
14763 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
14764 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
14765 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
14767 + added trace support for TTY flags
14768 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
14769 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
14772 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
14773 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
14774 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
14775 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
14776 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
14778 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
14779 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
14781 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
14783 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
14784 copy-changed-lines behavior.
14785 * added and documented wresize() function.
14786 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
14787 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
14788 emitted before the first check.
14789 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
14790 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
14791 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
14792 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
14793 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
14794 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
14796 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
14797 * support for ESCDELAY.
14798 * small fixes for menu/form code.
14799 * the test directory has its own configure.
14800 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
14801 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
14802 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
14805 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
14807 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
14808 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
14809 * support infocmp -RBSD.
14810 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
14811 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
14812 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
14813 catastrophies or acts of God.
14814 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
14816 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
14817 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
14820 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
14822 * corrected return values of setupterm()
14823 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
14824 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
14825 one `use' capability.
14826 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
14827 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
14828 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
14829 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
14830 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
14831 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
14832 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
14833 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
14834 * added -h option to toe(1).
14835 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
14836 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
14837 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
14838 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
14840 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
14842 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
14843 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
14845 * mouse support for xterm.
14846 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
14847 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off.
14848 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
14849 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
14850 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
14851 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
14852 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
14853 * infocmp -T option added.
14854 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
14856 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
14858 * menus library is now included with documentation.
14859 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
14860 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
14861 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
14862 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
14863 * tweaks for compiling in separate directories.
14864 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
14865 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
14866 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
14868 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
14870 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
14871 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
14872 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
14873 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
14875 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
14877 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
14878 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
14879 * added tracemunch to the test tools
14880 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
14882 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
14884 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
14885 profile and shared object models.
14887 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
14889 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
14890 * panels support added
14891 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
14892 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
14894 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
14896 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
14897 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
14898 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
14899 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
14901 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
14902 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
14903 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
14904 are consistent (they weren't).
14905 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
14906 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
14907 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
14908 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
14909 warnings from gcc).
14910 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
14911 * more spelling fixes
14912 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
14913 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
14914 core in init_acs()).
14915 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
14918 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
14920 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
14921 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
14922 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
14924 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
14925 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
14926 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
14927 resolution of traces.
14928 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
14929 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
14930 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
14931 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
14932 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
14933 is much less flaky.
14934 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
14935 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
14936 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
14937 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
14939 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
14940 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
14941 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
14942 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
14943 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
14944 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if
14945 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
14946 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
14947 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
14948 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
14949 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
14950 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
14951 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
14952 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
14953 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
14954 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
14956 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
14957 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
14958 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
14959 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
14960 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
14961 the correct alternate character set.
14962 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
14963 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
14964 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
14965 a terminal is undefined.
14966 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
14967 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
14968 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
14969 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
14970 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
14971 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
14973 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
14974 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
14975 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
14976 if other attributes are turned off.
14977 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
14978 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
14979 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
14981 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
14982 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
14983 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
14986 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
14987 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
14988 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
14989 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
14991 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
14992 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
14994 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
14996 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
14997 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
14998 break operation with any emulators.
14999 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
15000 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
15001 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
15002 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
15003 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
15004 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
15005 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
15006 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
15008 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
15009 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
15011 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
15012 unpredictable results.
15013 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
15015 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
15016 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
15017 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
15018 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
15019 take note of the terminfo directory.
15020 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
15021 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
15024 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
15025 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
15026 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
15027 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
15028 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
15029 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
15030 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
15031 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
15032 performs more testing.
15033 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
15034 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
15036 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
15037 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
15039 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
15040 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
15041 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
15043 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
15045 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
15046 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
15047 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
15048 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
15049 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
15050 will probably continue to work ok.
15052 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
15053 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
15054 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
15055 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
15056 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
15058 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
15059 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
15060 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
15062 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
15063 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
15064 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
15065 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
15066 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
15067 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
15068 changed accordingly.
15069 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
15070 bottom-right corner.
15071 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
15072 pads I'd love a copy.
15073 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
15074 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
15075 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
15076 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
15077 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
15078 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
15079 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
15081 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
15082 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
15083 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
15085 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
15086 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
15087 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
15088 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
15089 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
15090 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
15091 * See src/README for porting notes.
15092 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
15093 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
15094 rows instead of lines, etc.)
15095 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
15096 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
15097 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
15098 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
15099 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
15100 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
15101 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
15103 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
15104 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
15105 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
15106 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
15107 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
15108 fact was exposed by hanoi.
15109 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
15110 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
15111 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
15112 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
15113 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
15114 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
15116 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
15118 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
15119 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
15120 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
15121 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
15122 Config.* files through an awk script.
15123 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
15124 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
15125 * a few minor cleanups.
15126 * added more prototypes in curses.h
15128 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
15130 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
15131 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
15132 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
15133 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
15134 * a couple of bug fixes.
15135 * a few code cleanups.
15137 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
15139 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
15140 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
15141 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
15142 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
15143 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
15144 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
15145 * Cleaner Makefile.
15146 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
15147 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
15149 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
15150 (doesn't work on Linux)
15151 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
15152 screen before working.
15153 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
15154 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
15156 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
15157 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
15158 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
15159 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
15160 * several minor bug fixes.
15162 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
15164 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
15165 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
15166 * changes related to Config
15168 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
15170 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
15171 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
15172 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
15173 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
15174 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
15175 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
15176 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
15177 * added halfdelay()
15178 * fixed problems with asc_init()
15179 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
15180 * cleaned up vidputs()
15181 * general cleanup of the code
15182 * more attention to portability to other systems
15183 * added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are
15184 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
15186 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
15187 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
15189 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
15190 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
15191 the rationale drop me a line.
15193 Included are several test programs in test/.
15194 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
15195 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
15197 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
15199 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
15200 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
15201 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
15202 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
15203 * keyname() is added.
15204 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
15205 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
15206 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
15207 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
15208 * included fixes from 0.6.1
15209 * added a few more missing functions.
15210 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
15211 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
15214 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
15216 1) Included the missing data/console.
15218 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
15220 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
15222 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
15223 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
15224 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
15226 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
15227 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
15228 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
15229 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
15230 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
15231 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
15232 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
15233 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
15234 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
15235 * added notimeout().
15236 * added timeout() define in curses.h
15237 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
15239 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
15240 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
15241 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
15242 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
15243 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
15244 * added slk_* support.
15245 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
15246 * added PANEL library.
15247 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
15248 * terminfo.h is really term.h
15250 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
15251 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
15252 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
15253 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
15254 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
15255 another key is pressed.
15256 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
15257 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
15258 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
15260 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
15261 * fixed bug in wvline().
15262 * added curs_set().
15263 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
15264 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
15266 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
15267 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
15268 * Addition of function prototypes.
15269 * Addition of several missing functions.
15270 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
15271 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
15272 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
15273 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
15274 * New scrolling code.
15275 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
15277 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
15278 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
15279 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
15280 * more fixes for updates.
15281 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
15282 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
15283 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
15284 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
15286 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
15287 * support for color.
15288 * support for PC graphic characters.
15289 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
15290 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
15292 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
15293 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
15294 * ANSIfication of some functions.
15295 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
15296 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.