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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
51 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
52 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
56 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
57 + update test/configure
58 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
59 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
60 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
64 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
65 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
66 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
67 illustrate how to use mvcur().
68 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
69 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
70 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
71 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
72 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
75 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
76 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
77 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
78 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
79 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
80 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
83 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
84 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
86 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
87 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
88 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
89 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
92 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
93 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
94 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
95 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
97 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
99 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
100 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
101 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
102 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
103 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
106 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
107 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
109 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
110 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
111 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
112 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
113 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
114 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
115 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
116 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
117 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
118 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
119 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
122 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
123 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
124 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
125 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
126 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
127 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
128 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
131 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
132 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
133 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
134 Ada95 tree is not built.
137 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
138 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
139 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
140 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
141 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
142 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
144 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
145 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
146 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
147 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
148 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
149 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
150 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
151 > fixes based on Coverity report:
152 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
153 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
154 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
155 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
156 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
157 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
158 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
159 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
160 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
161 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
162 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
164 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
165 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
166 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
167 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
168 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
169 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
170 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
171 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
172 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
175 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
176 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
177 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
178 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
179 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
180 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
181 + improved install-sh's quoting.
182 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
186 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
187 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
188 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
189 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
190 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
194 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
195 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
196 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
197 in the configure script to an error.
198 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
199 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
200 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
201 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
202 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
204 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
205 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
208 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
209 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
212 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
213 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
215 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
216 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
217 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
218 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
219 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
220 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
221 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
222 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
225 + regenerated html documentation.
226 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
227 opaque in selected configurations.
228 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
229 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
230 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
231 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
232 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
233 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
234 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
235 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
236 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
237 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
238 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
240 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
241 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
244 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
245 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
246 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
247 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
248 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
249 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
250 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
251 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
252 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
253 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
254 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
255 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
258 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
260 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
261 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
262 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
264 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
265 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
266 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
267 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
268 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
269 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
270 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
271 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
273 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
274 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
277 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
278 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
280 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
282 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
283 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
284 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
287 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
288 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
289 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
290 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
292 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
293 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
294 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
295 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
296 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
297 no longer relies on it.
298 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
299 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
300 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
303 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
304 (report by Rong-En Fan).
307 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
308 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
309 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
310 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
311 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
312 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
313 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
314 its license consistent with ncurses.
315 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
316 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
317 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
320 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
321 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
322 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
323 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
327 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
328 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
329 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
331 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
332 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
335 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
336 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
337 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
340 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
341 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
342 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
343 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
344 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
345 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
346 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
347 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
348 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
349 to manpages as needed.
350 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
351 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
354 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
355 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
356 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
357 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
358 + update config.guess, config.sub
360 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
363 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
364 definitions in <wchar.h>.
365 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
366 correct nor portable.
367 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
369 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
370 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
374 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
375 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
376 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
377 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
378 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
379 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
382 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
383 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
384 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
385 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
387 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
388 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
389 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
390 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
391 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
392 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
393 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
394 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
397 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
398 database configuration.
399 + updates for test/configure script.
400 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
401 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
403 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
404 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
405 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
406 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
408 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
410 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
411 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
414 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
415 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
417 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
418 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
422 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
423 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
426 + add test/echochar.c
427 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
428 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
431 + add AUTHORS file -TD
432 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
433 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
434 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
437 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
438 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
439 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
441 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
442 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
443 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
444 for rpath support in versions past 3.
445 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
446 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
448 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
449 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
450 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
451 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
454 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
455 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
456 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
459 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
460 and status line (Alain Bench).
461 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
462 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
463 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
464 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
467 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
468 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
469 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
470 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
471 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
474 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
475 + updated html documentation.
476 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
477 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
480 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
481 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
482 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
483 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
484 option (from lynx changes) -TD
485 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
486 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
487 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
488 by report by Christopher Parker).
492 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
493 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
494 since it does not really do this -TD
497 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
498 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
499 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
500 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
503 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
504 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
505 embedded into a termcap description.
506 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
507 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
508 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
509 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
511 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
514 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
516 + add test/foldkeys.c
519 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
520 source output (Debian #378783).
521 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
522 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
523 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
524 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
525 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
526 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
529 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
530 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
531 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
534 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
535 or as a text file if those are not available.
536 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
537 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
538 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
541 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
542 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
543 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
544 + update config.guess, config.sub
547 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
548 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
549 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
551 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
552 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
554 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
555 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
556 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
557 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
558 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
559 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
561 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
562 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
563 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
564 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
567 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
568 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
572 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
573 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
575 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
576 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
577 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
578 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
579 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
580 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
583 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
584 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
585 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
586 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
587 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
588 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
589 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
590 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
591 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
592 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
595 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
596 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
597 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
598 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
600 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
603 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
604 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
605 + minor copyright fixes.
606 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
609 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
610 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
611 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
612 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
613 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
614 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
615 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
616 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
618 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
619 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
620 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
621 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
623 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
626 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
627 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
629 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
630 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
631 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
632 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
634 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
635 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
636 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
637 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
640 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
641 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
642 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
643 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
644 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
645 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
646 + update config.guess, config.sub
647 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
648 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
649 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
650 function is broken in that implementation.
653 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
654 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
657 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
658 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
660 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
661 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
663 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
664 reported to implement this feature -TD
667 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
668 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
671 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
672 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
673 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
674 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
675 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
676 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
677 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
678 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
681 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
682 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
684 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
685 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
688 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
689 (report by Alain Bench).
690 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
691 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
692 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
693 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
695 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
696 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
697 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
701 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
702 and/or video attributes.
703 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
704 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
707 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
710 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
711 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
712 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
713 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
714 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
715 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
716 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
717 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
718 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
721 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
722 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
723 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
726 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
727 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
728 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
729 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
730 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
731 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
732 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
733 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
734 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
735 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
738 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
739 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
741 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
743 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
744 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
745 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
748 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
750 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
751 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
754 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
755 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
758 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
759 + suppress line-drawing
760 + implement max_attributes
762 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
763 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
767 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
768 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
770 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
772 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
773 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
774 etc., when allocating screens.
777 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
778 this in test/filter.c
779 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
783 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
784 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
785 + add extension nofilter().
786 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
787 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
788 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
789 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
790 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
793 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
794 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
795 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
796 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
797 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
798 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
799 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
800 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
801 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
803 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
804 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
805 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
807 + update config.guess and config.sub
810 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
811 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
812 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
814 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
815 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
816 that was never built in that directory).
817 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
820 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
822 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
823 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
827 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
828 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
829 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
830 effect of the different functions.
831 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
835 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
836 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
838 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
842 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
843 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
844 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
846 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
847 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
851 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
852 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
853 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
855 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
856 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
857 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
860 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
861 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
862 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
865 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
866 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
867 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
869 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
870 a derived window (Debian #316663).
873 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
874 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
875 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
876 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
877 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
878 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
879 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
882 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
883 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
884 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
886 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
887 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
888 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
889 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
890 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
892 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
895 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
898 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
899 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
903 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
904 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
905 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
906 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
907 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
909 + update config.guess and config.sub from
910 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
913 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
914 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
915 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
916 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
917 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
918 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
919 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
920 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
921 default if it is used.
922 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
923 --with-abi-version option was used.
924 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
925 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
926 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
929 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
930 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
931 handlers (Debian #326709).
934 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
935 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
937 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
940 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
941 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
942 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
943 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
945 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
946 (report by Frank van Vugt).
949 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
950 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
951 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
952 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
953 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
954 + update llib-l* files.
957 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
958 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
959 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
960 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
964 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
965 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
966 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
967 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
968 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
969 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
970 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
971 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
975 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
976 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
977 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
978 several related cases -TD
979 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
980 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
982 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
986 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
988 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
989 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
990 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
991 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
992 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
993 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
996 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
997 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
998 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1000 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1001 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1004 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1005 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1006 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1007 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1008 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1009 "make install.data" step.
1010 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1011 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1012 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1013 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1014 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1015 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1016 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1017 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1018 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1019 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1020 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1021 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1022 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1023 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1026 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1029 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1030 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1031 review of Debian package).
1032 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1033 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1034 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1035 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1036 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1038 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1039 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1040 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1041 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1042 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1045 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1046 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1047 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1050 + fixes for termcap support:
1051 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1052 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1053 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1054 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1055 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1057 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1058 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1059 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1060 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1063 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1064 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1065 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1066 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1068 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1072 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1074 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1075 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1078 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1079 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1080 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1081 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1082 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1083 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1084 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1088 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1089 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1090 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1091 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1092 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1093 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1094 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1095 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1096 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1097 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1101 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1102 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1103 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1107 + update config.guess, config.sub
1108 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1109 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1110 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1111 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1112 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1114 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1115 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1116 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1119 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1120 position the mouse to a particular item.
1121 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1122 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1123 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1124 --enable-const option.
1127 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1128 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1129 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1130 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1131 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1132 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1133 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1134 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1135 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1136 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1137 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1140 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1142 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1143 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1146 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1147 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1148 anyone used that configuration.
1149 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1151 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1152 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1155 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1156 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1157 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1159 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1160 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1161 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1164 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1165 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1166 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1170 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1171 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1172 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1173 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1174 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1177 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1179 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1181 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1182 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1183 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1186 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1188 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1189 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1190 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1191 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1192 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1193 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1194 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1195 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1196 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1197 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1198 right (cf: 20040228).
1199 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1200 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1203 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1204 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1205 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1206 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1207 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1208 added (Debian #295083).
1209 + add traces to panel library.
1212 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1213 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1214 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1215 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1216 mouse events in this case.
1217 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1218 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1221 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1222 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1223 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1224 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1225 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1226 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1227 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1228 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1231 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1232 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1233 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1234 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1235 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1236 already been started.
1237 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1238 pair_content() and color_content().
1239 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1240 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1241 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1242 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1243 color pairs which are allowed.
1244 + add a top-level tags rule.
1247 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1248 first calling initscr().
1249 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1250 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1251 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1252 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1253 that are curses-specific.
1254 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1255 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1256 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1257 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1261 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1262 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1263 for leading whitespace.
1264 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1265 where a following line begins in column 1.
1266 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1267 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1270 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1273 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1274 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1275 + update config.guess, config.sub
1276 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1277 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1278 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1279 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1280 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1281 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1282 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1285 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1287 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1288 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1291 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1292 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1293 and attr_set functions.
1296 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1297 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1298 forms-demo to be one character short.
1299 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1300 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1301 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1302 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1305 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1306 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1307 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1308 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1310 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1311 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1314 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1315 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1316 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1317 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1318 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1319 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1320 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1322 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1323 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1325 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1326 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1329 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1330 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1331 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1332 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1333 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1334 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1335 wide-character configuration.
1338 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1339 or multicolumn characters.
1342 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1343 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1344 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1345 use_default_colors() be called first.
1348 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1349 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1350 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1351 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1352 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1353 must be wrapped to a new line.
1354 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1355 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1356 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1357 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1358 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1362 + minor fixes for traces.
1363 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1364 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1365 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1369 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1370 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1371 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1372 and shift-out which seem to work.
1373 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1374 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1377 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1378 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1379 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1380 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1384 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1385 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1386 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1387 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1390 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1391 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1392 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1393 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1394 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1395 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1396 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1397 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1398 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1399 is no longer experimental.
1400 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1401 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1404 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1407 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1408 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1409 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1410 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1411 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1412 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1413 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1414 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1417 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1418 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1419 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1420 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1421 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1422 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1423 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1424 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1427 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1428 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1429 > terminfo updates -TD
1430 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1431 with the common usage of bce/ech
1432 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1436 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1437 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1438 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1439 a help window as well.
1440 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1441 the -d option is set.
1442 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1445 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1447 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1448 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1452 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1453 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1454 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1455 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1456 patch by Hans de Goede)
1457 > terminfo updates -TD
1458 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1459 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1460 + add function-keys to decansi
1461 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1462 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1463 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1466 > terminfo updates -TD
1467 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1468 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1470 + review/update konsole entries
1471 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1472 + correct tsl string in kterm
1475 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1478 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1479 multibyte character.
1480 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1482 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1483 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1484 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1485 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1486 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1487 converting termcap to termcap format.
1488 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1489 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1490 > terminfo updates -TD
1491 + minor fixes for emu
1493 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1498 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1499 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1500 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1501 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1502 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1503 > terminfo updates -TD
1504 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1506 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1507 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1508 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1511 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1512 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1514 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1515 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1516 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1517 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1518 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1519 + update config.guess, config.sub
1520 > terminfo updates -TD
1522 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1523 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1524 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1529 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1530 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1531 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1534 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1535 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1536 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1538 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1542 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1543 field_buffer() results.
1544 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1547 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1549 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1550 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1551 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1552 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1553 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1556 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1557 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1558 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1562 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1563 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1565 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1568 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1569 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1570 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1571 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1572 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1573 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1574 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1575 information without an option.
1576 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1577 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1580 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1583 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1584 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1585 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1586 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1587 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1588 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1589 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1591 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1594 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1595 to an unsigned char.
1596 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1597 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1600 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1603 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1604 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1605 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1606 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1607 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1608 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1609 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1610 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1611 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1612 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1613 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1616 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1617 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1618 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1619 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1622 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1624 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1625 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1628 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1629 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1630 mode is shown in that test.
1631 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1632 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1633 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1636 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1638 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1639 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1640 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1641 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1643 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1644 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1645 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1646 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1649 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1650 (request by Mike Aubury).
1651 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1653 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1655 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1658 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1659 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1660 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1661 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1662 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1663 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1664 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1665 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1666 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1667 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1669 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1672 20040207 pre-release
1673 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1674 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1675 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1676 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1677 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1679 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1680 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1681 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1683 20040131 pre-release
1684 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1685 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1686 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1687 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1688 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1689 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1690 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1691 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1692 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1693 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1694 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1696 20040125 pre-release
1697 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1698 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1699 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1700 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1701 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1702 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1703 modifying the displayed value.
1705 20040124 pre-release
1706 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1707 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1708 that works better for cross-compiling.
1710 20040117 pre-release
1711 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1712 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1713 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1714 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1715 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1716 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1717 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1719 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1720 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1722 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1723 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1724 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1725 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1726 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1727 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1728 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1729 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1730 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1731 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1732 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1733 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1735 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1736 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1737 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1738 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1739 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1740 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1741 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1742 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1744 20040110 pre-release
1745 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1746 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1748 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1749 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1751 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1753 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1754 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1755 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1756 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1757 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1760 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1761 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1762 + add pecho_wchar().
1763 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1764 available) on older platforms.
1767 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1768 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1769 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1770 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1771 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1772 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1773 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1774 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1775 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1778 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1779 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1780 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1781 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1782 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1783 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1787 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1788 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1789 applications do not.
1790 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1791 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1792 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1793 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1794 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1795 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1799 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1800 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1801 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1802 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1803 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1804 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1805 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1806 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1807 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1808 awkward for some cases.
1809 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1810 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1812 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1813 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1814 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1815 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1816 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1820 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1821 values (Philippe Blain).
1822 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1823 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1824 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1828 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1829 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1830 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1831 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1832 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1833 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
1837 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
1838 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
1839 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
1841 + update config.guess, config.sub
1844 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
1845 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
1846 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
1847 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
1848 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
1849 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
1850 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
1852 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
1853 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
1854 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
1855 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
1856 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
1859 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
1860 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
1861 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
1862 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
1863 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
1864 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
1865 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
1866 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
1868 + regenerated html documentation.
1869 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
1870 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
1871 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
1874 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
1875 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
1876 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
1877 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
1878 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
1879 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
1880 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
1881 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
1885 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
1886 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
1889 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
1890 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
1891 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
1892 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
1894 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
1895 (report by Philippe Blain).
1898 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
1899 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
1900 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
1901 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
1902 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
1903 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
1904 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1905 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
1906 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
1908 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
1910 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
1911 in the clr_bol logic.
1914 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1915 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1916 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
1917 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
1918 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
1919 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1920 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
1921 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
1922 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
1923 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
1924 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
1925 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
1928 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
1929 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
1930 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
1931 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
1934 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
1935 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
1936 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
1937 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
1938 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
1939 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
1940 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
1941 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
1942 --with-install-prefix is used.
1945 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1946 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
1947 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
1948 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
1951 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
1952 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
1953 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
1954 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
1955 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
1956 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
1957 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1958 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
1959 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
1962 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
1963 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
1964 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
1965 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
1966 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
1967 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
1968 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
1971 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
1973 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1974 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
1975 the size of the scroll-region.
1976 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
1979 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
1980 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
1981 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
1985 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
1986 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
1987 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
1988 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1989 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
1991 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
1992 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
1993 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
1994 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
1995 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
1996 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
1997 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
1998 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
1999 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2000 usage and to prevent circular links.
2001 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2002 (rxvt-color): new alias
2003 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2004 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2005 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2006 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2007 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2008 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2010 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2014 + update config.guess, config.sub
2015 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2016 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2019 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2020 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2021 would not accept gcc warning options.
2022 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2023 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2024 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2025 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2026 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2027 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2028 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2030 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2033 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2034 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2035 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2036 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2037 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2038 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2039 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2040 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2043 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2045 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2046 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2047 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2048 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2051 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2053 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2054 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2055 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2056 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2057 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2058 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2061 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2062 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2063 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2064 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2065 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2066 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2067 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2068 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2070 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2071 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2072 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2073 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2076 + regenerated html manpages.
2077 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2078 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2080 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2081 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2083 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2084 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2087 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2088 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2089 + add tkterm entry -TD
2090 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2091 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2092 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2093 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2095 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2096 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2097 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2099 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2100 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2101 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2104 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2105 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2106 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2107 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2109 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2110 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2111 current test programs.
2112 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2113 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2114 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2115 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2117 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2118 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2119 mentioned in the terminfo.
2120 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2121 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2124 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2125 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2126 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2127 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2128 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2129 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2130 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2131 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2134 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2135 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2136 the editing position before making modifications.
2137 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2138 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2139 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2142 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2143 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2144 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2145 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2147 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2148 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2149 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2150 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2151 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2152 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2155 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2156 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2157 code, from recent rewrite.
2158 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2160 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2161 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2164 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2165 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2166 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2167 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2170 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2171 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2173 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2176 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2178 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2179 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2181 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2182 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2183 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2186 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2187 a file when ^W is given.
2188 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2192 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2193 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2194 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2195 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2196 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2197 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2198 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2199 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2203 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2204 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2205 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2208 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2209 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2210 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2211 baudrate was not known.
2212 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2213 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2214 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2215 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2216 corresponding capability might be
2218 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2219 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2220 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2221 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2224 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2225 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2226 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2227 apparently typedef'd.
2228 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2229 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2232 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2233 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2234 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2235 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2236 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2237 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2238 cached for reallocating.
2241 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2242 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2243 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2245 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2246 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2247 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2248 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2249 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2250 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2251 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2252 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2255 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2256 emx-base to the latter -TD
2257 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2258 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2261 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2262 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2263 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2264 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2265 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2268 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2269 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2270 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2271 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2272 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2273 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2274 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2276 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2277 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2278 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2279 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2280 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2283 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2284 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2285 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2286 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2287 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2288 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2290 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2291 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2292 is indeed a "blank".
2293 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2294 sections as small as one line.
2295 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2297 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2298 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2299 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2302 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2303 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2306 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2307 (report by Philippe Blain).
2308 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2309 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2310 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2311 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2312 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2314 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2315 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2316 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2317 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2318 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2319 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2322 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2323 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2325 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2326 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2328 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2329 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2330 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2331 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2334 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2335 overridden from the environment.
2336 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2337 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2338 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2339 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2340 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2341 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2342 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2343 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2344 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2345 by Sam Varshavchik).
2346 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2347 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2348 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2349 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2351 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2352 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2353 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2354 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2355 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2358 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2359 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2360 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2361 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2362 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2363 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2364 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2365 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2366 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2367 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2368 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2369 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2370 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2371 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2372 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2373 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2374 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2375 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2376 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2377 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2378 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2379 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2380 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2383 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2384 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2385 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2386 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2387 winsch() internal function.
2388 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2389 more than one spacing character.
2392 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2393 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2394 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2395 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2396 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2397 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2398 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2399 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2400 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2401 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2404 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2405 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2406 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2407 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2408 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2409 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2410 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2413 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2414 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2415 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2416 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2418 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2419 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2420 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2421 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2422 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2425 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2426 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2427 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2428 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2429 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2430 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2431 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2432 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2433 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2434 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2435 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2436 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2437 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2438 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2439 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2440 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2441 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2444 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2445 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2446 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2447 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2448 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2449 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2450 Frederic L W Meunier).
2452 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2453 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2454 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2455 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2456 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2457 the debug trace in that case.
2458 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2459 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2460 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2461 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2463 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2464 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2466 20021005 pre-release
2467 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2468 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2469 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2470 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2471 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2472 formats such as "%.*s".
2473 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2474 (report Floyd Davidson).
2475 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2477 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2478 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2479 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2481 20020928 pre-release
2482 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2483 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2484 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2486 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2487 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2488 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2489 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2490 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2491 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2492 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2493 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2494 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2495 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2496 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2497 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2498 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2499 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2500 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2501 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2502 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2503 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2504 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2506 20020921 pre-release
2507 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2508 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2509 result in core dump.
2510 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2511 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2512 delimiter rather than '@'.
2513 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2514 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2515 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2516 to the lines given for the destination window.
2518 20020914 pre-release
2519 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2520 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2521 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2522 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2523 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2524 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2525 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2526 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2527 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2528 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2529 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2530 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2532 20020907 pre-release
2533 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2534 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2535 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2536 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2537 html manpages on Debian.
2538 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2539 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2540 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2541 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2542 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2543 a variable from the stack.
2544 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2546 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2547 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2548 _idcok window fields.
2549 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2551 20020901 pre-release
2552 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2553 + update config.guess, config.sub
2554 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2555 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2557 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2558 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2559 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2560 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2561 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2562 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2563 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2564 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2565 use in resizeterm().
2566 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2567 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2568 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2569 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2570 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2571 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2572 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2573 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2574 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2575 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2576 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2580 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2581 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2582 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2583 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2584 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2585 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2588 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2589 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2590 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2591 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2592 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2593 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2594 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2595 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2596 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2598 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2599 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2603 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2604 when translating to termcap.
2605 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2606 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2607 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2609 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2611 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2612 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2614 + document TABSIZE variable.
2615 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2616 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2617 assume_default_colors().
2618 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2620 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2621 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2622 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2623 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2624 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2627 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2629 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2630 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2632 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2633 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2634 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2637 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2639 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2642 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2643 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2644 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2645 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2646 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2647 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2648 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2649 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2650 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2651 configure definitions.
2652 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2653 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2654 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2655 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2656 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2657 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2658 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2659 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2660 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2661 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2662 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2665 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2666 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2667 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2668 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2669 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2670 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2671 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2673 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2674 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2675 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2676 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2679 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2680 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2681 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2682 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2684 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2685 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2686 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2689 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2690 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2692 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2693 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2694 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2696 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2697 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2698 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2699 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2701 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2702 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2703 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2704 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2708 + add charset to generated html.
2709 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2710 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2711 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2712 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2713 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2714 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2718 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2719 key code in get_wch().
2720 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2721 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2722 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2723 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2724 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2725 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2728 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2729 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2731 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2732 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2733 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2734 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2737 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2738 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2739 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2740 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2741 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2742 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2743 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2744 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2745 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2746 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2749 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2753 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2754 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2755 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2756 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2757 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2758 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2759 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2762 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2763 character versions as well.
2764 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2766 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2768 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2769 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2770 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2771 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2772 if gettimeofday() is available.
2775 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2776 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2779 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2781 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2782 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2783 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2784 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2785 + update config.guess, config.sub
2788 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2789 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2790 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2791 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2792 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2793 alias for 'function'.
2796 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2797 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2801 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2802 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2803 + implement win_wchnstr().
2804 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2805 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2808 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2809 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2812 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2813 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2816 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2817 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2818 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2820 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2821 + implement unget_wch().
2822 + implement wget_wch().
2825 + regenerated html manpages.
2826 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2827 + implement wins_wch().
2828 + implement win_wch().
2829 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2832 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2833 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
2836 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
2837 + document wunctrl, key_name.
2838 + implement key_name().
2839 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
2841 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
2845 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
2846 in spurious symlinks on install.
2849 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
2850 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
2851 box() and box_set() functions.
2852 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
2853 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
2854 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
2855 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
2856 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
2857 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
2858 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
2860 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
2862 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
2863 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
2864 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
2865 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
2867 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
2868 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
2871 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
2872 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
2874 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
2878 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
2880 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
2881 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
2882 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2883 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
2884 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
2885 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2886 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
2887 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
2888 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
2889 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
2890 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
2891 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
2892 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
2893 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
2894 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
2897 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
2898 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
2901 + update config.guess, config.sub
2902 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2903 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
2906 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
2907 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
2908 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
2910 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
2911 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
2913 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
2914 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
2915 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2916 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2919 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
2922 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
2923 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
2924 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
2925 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
2926 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
2927 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
2928 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
2929 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
2930 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
2932 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
2933 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
2934 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
2936 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
2938 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
2939 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
2940 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
2941 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
2942 work with SunOS nawk.
2943 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
2945 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
2946 case it uses multiple tokens.
2949 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
2950 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
2951 interrupted by that signal.
2952 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
2953 not needed with autoconf 2.52
2954 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
2955 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
2957 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2958 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
2959 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
2960 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
2961 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
2964 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
2966 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
2967 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
2968 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
2969 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
2970 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
2971 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
2972 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
2973 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
2976 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
2977 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
2978 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
2979 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
2980 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
2981 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
2982 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
2983 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
2984 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
2987 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
2988 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
2989 may have different keypad() settings.
2990 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
2991 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
2992 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
2993 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
2994 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
2995 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
2996 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
2997 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
2999 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3000 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3001 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3002 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3006 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3008 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3009 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3010 implementation in cygwin package).
3011 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3012 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3014 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3015 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3016 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3017 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3018 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3019 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3020 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3021 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3022 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3024 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3025 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3026 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3027 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3028 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3029 <jevans@apple.com>).
3030 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3031 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3032 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3033 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3034 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3038 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3039 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3040 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3041 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3042 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3043 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3044 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3045 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3046 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3047 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3050 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3053 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3054 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3055 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3056 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3057 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3060 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3061 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3064 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3065 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3066 + implement wecho_wchar()
3067 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3068 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3069 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3071 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3072 in a trace by using curly braces.
3073 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3074 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3075 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3076 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3079 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3080 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3081 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3082 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3083 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3087 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3088 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3089 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3090 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3091 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3092 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3093 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3094 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3098 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3099 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3100 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3101 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3102 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3103 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3104 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3105 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3106 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3109 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3110 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3113 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3114 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3115 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3116 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3117 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3118 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3120 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3121 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3123 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3124 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3127 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3128 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3129 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3130 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3131 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3133 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3134 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3136 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3137 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3138 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3139 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3140 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3143 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3144 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3146 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3147 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3148 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3149 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3152 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3153 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3154 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3155 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3156 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3160 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3161 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3162 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3164 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3166 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3168 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3170 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3171 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3172 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3173 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3174 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3175 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3176 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3177 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3178 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3182 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3183 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3184 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3185 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3186 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3187 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3188 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3189 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3190 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3191 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3193 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3194 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3195 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3196 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3197 supports xterm mouse controls.
3198 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3199 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3200 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3201 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3202 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3203 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3204 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3205 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3206 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3207 AX in a color xterm.
3208 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3212 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3213 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3214 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3215 + added llib-ncursesw.
3218 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3219 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3220 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3221 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3222 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3223 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3224 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3225 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3226 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3227 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3228 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3229 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3230 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3231 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3232 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3233 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3234 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3235 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3236 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3237 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3240 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3241 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3242 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3245 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3246 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3247 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3248 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3249 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3250 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3251 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3252 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3253 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3254 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3255 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3256 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3260 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3261 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3262 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3263 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3264 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3265 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3266 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3269 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3270 new wide-character structures.
3271 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3272 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3273 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3274 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3275 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3279 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3281 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3282 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3283 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3285 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3286 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3287 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3290 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3291 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3292 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3295 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3296 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3297 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3298 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3299 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3300 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3301 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3304 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3305 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3306 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3307 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3308 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3309 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3310 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3311 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3312 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3315 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3316 which may be in libutf8.
3317 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3318 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3319 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3320 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3321 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3322 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3323 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3324 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3325 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3326 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3327 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3330 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3331 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3334 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3335 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3336 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3337 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3338 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3340 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3341 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3342 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3343 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3344 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3345 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3346 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3347 are used to manipulate attributes.
3348 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3349 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3350 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3351 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3352 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3353 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3355 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3356 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3357 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3358 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3359 we are using chtype data.
3360 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3362 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3364 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3365 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3366 where a pointer would be more useful.
3367 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3368 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3369 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3370 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3371 passing cchar_t's by address.
3372 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3373 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3374 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3375 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3376 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3377 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3378 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3379 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3382 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3383 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3384 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3385 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3386 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3388 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3389 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3390 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3393 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3394 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3395 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3396 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3397 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3398 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3399 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3400 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3401 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3402 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3403 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3404 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3407 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3408 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3409 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3412 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3413 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3416 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3417 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3418 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3419 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3420 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3423 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3424 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3425 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3426 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3427 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3428 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3429 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3430 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3431 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3432 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3433 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3436 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3437 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3438 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3439 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3440 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3441 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3442 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3443 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3444 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3445 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3446 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3447 any shots there, but the computer did.
3448 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3449 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3453 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3454 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3455 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3456 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3457 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3458 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3461 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3462 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3463 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3464 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3465 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3467 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3469 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3470 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3472 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3474 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3475 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3478 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3479 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3480 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3481 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3482 interface from C++ binding.
3483 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3484 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3485 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3486 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3488 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3489 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3490 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3491 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3494 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3495 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3496 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3497 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3500 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3503 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3507 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3508 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3509 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3510 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3511 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3512 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3513 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3514 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3515 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3516 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3517 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3518 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3521 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3522 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3524 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3525 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3526 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3527 did not do this already.
3528 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3529 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3530 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3531 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3532 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3533 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3534 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3535 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3538 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3539 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3542 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3543 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3544 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3545 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3547 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3549 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3550 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3552 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3553 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3554 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3555 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3556 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3559 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3560 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3561 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3562 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3565 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3566 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3567 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3570 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3571 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3572 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3573 work with 'indent') -TD
3576 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3577 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3578 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3579 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3580 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3582 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3583 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3584 termcap and terminfo functions
3585 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3589 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3590 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3591 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3592 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3593 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3594 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3596 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3597 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3598 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3599 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3600 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3601 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3602 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3603 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3606 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3607 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3608 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3609 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3612 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3613 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3614 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3615 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3617 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3618 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3619 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3620 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3621 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3622 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3623 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3624 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3627 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3628 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3629 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3630 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3631 + change trace output to binary format.
3632 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3633 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3634 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3635 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3636 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3637 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3638 the overwrite logic.
3641 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3642 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3643 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3644 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3645 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3646 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3648 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3649 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3652 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3653 + update generated html files from manpages.
3654 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3656 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3657 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3658 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3659 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3660 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3661 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3662 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3663 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3666 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3667 wrapping at the right margin.
3668 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3669 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3670 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3672 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3673 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3674 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3675 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3676 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3677 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3678 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3679 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3680 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3681 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3682 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3683 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3684 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3685 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3686 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3687 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3688 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3689 option --with-libtool.
3690 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3691 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3692 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3693 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3694 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3697 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3698 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3699 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3700 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3701 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3702 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3703 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3704 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3705 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3706 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3707 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3708 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3709 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3710 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3711 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3712 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3713 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3714 replace select() call.
3717 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3718 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3719 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3720 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3721 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3722 cursor report before decoding.
3723 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3724 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3725 (see assume_default_colors()).
3726 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3727 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3729 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3730 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3731 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3733 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3734 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3735 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3736 for that capability.
3737 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
3738 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
3739 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
3740 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
3741 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
3742 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
3745 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
3746 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
3747 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
3748 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
3749 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
3750 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
3751 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
3752 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
3753 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
3755 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
3756 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
3757 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
3758 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
3759 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
3760 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
3761 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3764 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
3765 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
3766 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
3767 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
3768 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
3770 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
3771 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
3772 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
3773 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
3774 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
3775 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
3776 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
3777 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
3778 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
3779 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
3780 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
3781 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
3782 the expected number of parameters.
3783 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
3784 the option value is indeed a number.
3785 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
3786 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
3787 from the other signals.
3790 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
3791 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
3792 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
3795 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
3796 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
3798 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
3799 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
3800 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
3802 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
3803 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
3804 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3805 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
3806 character set attribute from the displayed text.
3807 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
3808 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
3809 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
3810 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
3811 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
3812 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3815 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
3816 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
3817 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
3818 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
3819 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
3820 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
3821 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3822 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
3823 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
3824 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
3826 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
3827 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
3829 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
3830 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
3831 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
3832 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
3833 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
3834 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
3837 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
3838 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
3839 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
3840 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
3841 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
3842 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
3843 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
3844 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
3845 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
3846 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3847 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
3848 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
3849 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
3850 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
3851 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
3853 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
3854 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
3855 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
3858 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
3859 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3860 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
3861 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
3863 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
3864 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
3865 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
3866 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
3867 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3868 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
3869 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
3871 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
3872 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
3873 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
3874 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
3875 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
3876 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
3877 a default program-prefix.
3878 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
3879 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
3882 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
3883 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
3884 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
3885 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
3886 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
3887 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
3888 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
3889 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
3890 although the name is misleading).
3891 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
3892 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
3893 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
3894 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
3897 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
3898 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
3899 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
3901 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
3902 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
3904 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
3905 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
3906 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
3908 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
3909 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
3910 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
3911 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
3912 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/b