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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 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
50 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
52 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
53 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
54 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
58 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
59 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
61 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
62 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
63 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
64 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
67 + regenerated html documentation.
68 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
69 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
70 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
71 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
72 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
75 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
76 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
77 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
81 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
82 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
83 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
84 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
85 window which is being used in a wgetch().
86 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
89 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
90 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
92 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
93 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
94 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
95 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
96 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
97 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
98 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
99 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
100 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
103 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
104 screen which must be updated.
105 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
106 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
107 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
111 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
112 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
114 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
116 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
117 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
120 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
121 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
122 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
124 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
128 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
129 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
130 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
133 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
134 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
135 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
136 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
139 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
140 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
142 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
144 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
147 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
148 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
149 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
150 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
151 python-dev2 mailing list).
154 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
155 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
156 are not associated with a particular screen.
157 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
158 stdscr to the callback function.
159 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
160 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
161 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
162 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
163 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
164 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
165 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
169 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
170 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
171 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
172 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
174 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
175 wide-characters with extended-colors.
176 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
177 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
178 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
181 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
182 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
183 that the 'F' accepts.
184 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
185 are working concurrently.
186 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
190 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
191 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
195 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
196 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
199 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
200 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
203 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
204 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
205 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
206 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
209 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
210 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
211 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
212 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
213 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
214 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
216 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
217 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
221 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
222 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
223 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
226 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
227 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
228 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
231 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
232 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
233 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
237 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
238 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
239 "link_test" builds properly.
240 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
241 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
242 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
243 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
244 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
245 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
246 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
248 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
251 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
255 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
256 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
259 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
261 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
262 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
263 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
266 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
267 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
269 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
270 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
271 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
272 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
276 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
277 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
278 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
279 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
280 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
282 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
283 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
284 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
288 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
289 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
292 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
294 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
296 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
300 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
301 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
303 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
304 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
305 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
306 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
307 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
309 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
310 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
313 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
314 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
315 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
316 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
319 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
320 calls within the ncurses library.
321 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
323 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
324 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
325 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
327 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
328 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
329 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
330 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
331 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
334 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
335 for threaded library (incomplete).
336 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
337 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
341 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
342 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
343 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
344 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
345 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
346 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
347 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
348 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
349 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
352 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
354 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
355 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
358 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
359 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
360 "\0" followed by a digit.
361 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
362 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
363 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
364 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
365 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
366 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
367 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
368 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
369 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
372 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
373 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
374 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
375 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
376 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
378 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
379 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
380 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
384 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
385 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
386 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
387 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
388 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
389 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
390 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
391 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
392 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
395 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
396 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
397 + add test/test_getstr.c
398 + add test/test_inwstr.c
399 + add test/test_instr.c
402 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
403 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
404 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
408 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
409 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
410 ".log" to the name and try again.
411 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
412 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
413 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
414 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
415 --disable-echo option is used.
416 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
417 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
418 + update config.guess, config.sub
421 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
422 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
423 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
427 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
428 problems with multi-column characters.
429 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
430 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
431 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
432 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
433 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
434 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
435 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
438 + add test/demo_panels.c
439 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
442 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
444 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
445 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
448 + add test/key_name.c
449 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
450 + update test/configure
451 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
452 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
453 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
457 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
458 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
459 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
460 illustrate how to use mvcur().
461 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
462 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
463 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
464 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
465 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
468 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
469 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
470 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
471 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
472 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
473 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
476 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
477 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
479 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
480 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
481 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
482 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
485 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
486 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
487 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
488 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
490 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
492 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
493 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
494 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
495 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
496 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
499 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
500 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
502 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
503 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
504 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
505 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
506 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
507 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
508 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
509 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
510 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
511 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
512 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
515 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
516 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
517 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
518 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
519 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
520 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
521 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
524 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
525 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
526 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
527 Ada95 tree is not built.
530 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
531 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
532 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
533 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
534 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
535 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
537 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
538 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
539 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
540 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
541 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
542 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
543 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
544 > fixes based on Coverity report:
545 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
546 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
547 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
548 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
549 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
550 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
551 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
552 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
553 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
554 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
555 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
557 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
558 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
559 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
560 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
561 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
562 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
563 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
564 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
565 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
568 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
569 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
570 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
571 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
572 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
573 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
574 + improved install-sh's quoting.
575 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
579 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
580 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
581 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
582 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
583 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
587 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
588 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
589 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
590 in the configure script to an error.
591 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
592 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
593 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
594 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
595 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
597 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
598 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
601 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
602 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
605 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
606 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
608 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
609 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
610 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
611 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
612 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
613 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
614 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
615 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
618 + regenerated html documentation.
619 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
620 opaque in selected configurations.
621 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
622 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
623 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
624 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
625 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
626 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
627 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
628 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
629 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
630 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
631 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
633 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
634 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
637 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
638 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
639 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
640 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
641 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
642 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
643 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
644 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
645 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
646 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
647 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
648 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
651 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
653 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
654 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
655 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
657 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
658 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
659 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
660 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
661 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
662 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
663 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
664 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
666 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
667 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
670 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
671 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
673 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
675 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
676 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
677 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
680 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
681 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
682 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
683 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
685 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
686 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
687 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
688 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
689 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
690 no longer relies on it.
691 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
692 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
693 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
696 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
697 (report by Rong-En Fan).
700 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
701 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
702 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
703 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
704 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
705 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
706 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
707 its license consistent with ncurses.
708 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
709 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
710 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
713 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
714 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
715 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
716 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
720 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
721 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
722 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
724 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
725 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
728 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
729 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
730 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
733 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
734 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
735 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
736 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
737 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
738 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
739 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
740 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
741 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
742 to manpages as needed.
743 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
744 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
747 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
748 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
749 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
750 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
751 + update config.guess, config.sub
753 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
756 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
757 definitions in <wchar.h>.
758 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
759 correct nor portable.
760 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
762 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
763 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
767 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
768 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
769 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
770 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
771 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
772 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
775 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
776 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
777 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
778 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
780 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
781 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
782 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
783 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
784 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
785 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
786 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
787 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
790 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
791 database configuration.
792 + updates for test/configure script.
793 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
794 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
796 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
797 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
798 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
799 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
801 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
803 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
804 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
807 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
808 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
810 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
811 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
815 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
816 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
819 + add test/echochar.c
820 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
821 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
824 + add AUTHORS file -TD
825 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
826 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
827 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
830 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
831 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
832 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
834 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
835 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
836 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
837 for rpath support in versions past 3.
838 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
839 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
841 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
842 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
843 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
844 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
847 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
848 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
849 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
852 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
853 and status line (Alain Bench).
854 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
855 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
856 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
857 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
860 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
861 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
862 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
863 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
864 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
867 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
868 + updated html documentation.
869 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
870 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
873 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
874 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
875 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
876 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
877 option (from lynx changes) -TD
878 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
879 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
880 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
881 by report by Christopher Parker).
885 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
886 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
887 since it does not really do this -TD
890 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
891 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
892 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
893 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
896 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
897 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
898 embedded into a termcap description.
899 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
900 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
901 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
902 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
904 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
907 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
909 + add test/foldkeys.c
912 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
913 source output (Debian #378783).
914 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
915 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
916 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
917 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
918 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
919 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
922 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
923 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
924 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
927 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
928 or as a text file if those are not available.
929 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
930 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
931 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
934 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
935 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
936 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
937 + update config.guess, config.sub
940 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
941 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
942 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
944 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
945 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
947 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
948 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
949 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
950 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
951 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
952 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
954 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
955 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
956 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
957 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
960 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
961 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
965 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
966 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
968 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
969 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
970 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
971 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
972 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
973 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
976 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
977 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
978 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
979 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
980 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
981 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
982 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
983 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
984 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
985 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
988 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
989 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
990 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
991 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
993 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
996 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
997 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
998 + minor copyright fixes.
999 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1002 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1003 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1004 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1005 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1006 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1007 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1008 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1009 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1011 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1012 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1013 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1014 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1016 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1019 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1020 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1022 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1023 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1024 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1025 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1027 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1028 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1029 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1030 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1033 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1034 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1035 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1036 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1037 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1038 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1039 + update config.guess, config.sub
1040 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1041 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1042 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1043 function is broken in that implementation.
1046 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1047 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1050 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1051 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1053 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1054 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1056 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1057 reported to implement this feature -TD
1060 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1061 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1064 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1065 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1066 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1067 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1068 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1069 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1070 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1071 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1074 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1075 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1077 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1078 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1081 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1082 (report by Alain Bench).
1083 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1084 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1085 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1086 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1088 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1089 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1090 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1094 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1095 and/or video attributes.
1096 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1097 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1100 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1103 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1104 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1105 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1106 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1107 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1108 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1109 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1110 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1111 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1114 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1115 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1116 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1119 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1120 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1121 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1122 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1123 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1124 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1125 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1126 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1127 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1128 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1131 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1132 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1133 rather than delayed.
1134 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1136 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1137 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1138 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1141 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1143 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1144 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1147 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1148 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1151 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1152 + suppress line-drawing
1153 + implement max_attributes
1155 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1156 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1160 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1161 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1163 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1165 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1166 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1167 etc., when allocating screens.
1170 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1171 this in test/filter.c
1172 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1176 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1177 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1178 + add extension nofilter().
1179 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1180 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1181 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1182 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1183 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1186 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1187 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1188 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1189 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1190 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1191 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1192 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1193 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1194 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1196 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1197 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1198 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1200 + update config.guess and config.sub
1203 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1204 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1205 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1207 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1208 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1209 that was never built in that directory).
1210 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1213 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1215 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1216 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1220 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1221 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1222 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1223 effect of the different functions.
1224 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1228 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1229 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1231 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1235 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1236 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1237 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1239 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1240 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1244 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1245 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1246 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1248 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1249 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1250 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1253 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1254 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1255 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1258 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1259 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1260 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1262 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1263 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1266 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1267 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1268 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1269 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1270 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1271 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1272 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1275 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1276 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1277 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1279 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1280 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1281 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1282 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1283 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1285 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1288 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1291 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1292 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1296 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1297 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1298 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1299 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1300 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1302 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1303 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1306 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1307 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1308 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1309 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1310 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1311 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1312 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1313 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1314 default if it is used.
1315 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1316 --with-abi-version option was used.
1317 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1318 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1319 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1322 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1323 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1324 handlers (Debian #326709).
1327 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1328 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1330 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1333 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1334 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1335 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1336 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1338 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1339 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1342 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1343 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1344 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1345 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1346 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1347 + update llib-l* files.
1350 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1351 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1352 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1353 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1357 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1358 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1359 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1360 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1361 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1362 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1363 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1364 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1365 Konstantin Andreev).
1368 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1369 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1370 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1371 several related cases -TD
1372 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1373 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1375 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1376 resets line-drawing.
1379 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1381 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1382 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1383 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1384 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1385 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1386 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1389 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1390 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1391 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1393 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1394 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1397 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1398 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1399 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1400 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1401 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1402 "make install.data" step.
1403 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1404 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1405 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1406 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1407 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1408 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1409 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1410 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1411 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1412 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1413 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1414 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1415 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1416 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1419 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1422 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1423 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1424 review of Debian package).
1425 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1426 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1427 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1428 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1429 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1431 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1432 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1433 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1434 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1435 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1438 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1439 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1440 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1443 + fixes for termcap support:
1444 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1445 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1446 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1447 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1448 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1450 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1451 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1452 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1453 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1456 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1457 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1458 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1459 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1461 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1465 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1467 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1468 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1471 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1472 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1473 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1474 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1475 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1476 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1477 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1481 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1482 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1483 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1484 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1485 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1486 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1487 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1488 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1489 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1490 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1494 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1495 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1496 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1500 + update config.guess, config.sub
1501 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1502 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1503 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1504 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1505 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1507 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1508 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1509 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1512 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1513 position the mouse to a particular item.
1514 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1515 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1516 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1517 --enable-const option.
1520 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1521 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1522 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1523 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1524 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1525 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1526 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1527 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1528 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1529 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1530 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1533 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1535 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1536 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1539 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1540 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1541 anyone used that configuration.
1542 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1544 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1545 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1548 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1549 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1550 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1552 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1553 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1554 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1557 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1558 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1559 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1563 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1564 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1565 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1566 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1567 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1570 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1572 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1574 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1575 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1576 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1579 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1581 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1582 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1583 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1584 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1585 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1586 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1587 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1588 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1589 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1590 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1591 right (cf: 20040228).
1592 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1593 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1596 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1597 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1598 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1599 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1600 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1601 added (Debian #295083).
1602 + add traces to panel library.
1605 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1606 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1607 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1608 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1609 mouse events in this case.
1610 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1611 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1614 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1615 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1616 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1617 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1618 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1619 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1620 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1621 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1624 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1625 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1626 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1627 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1628 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1629 already been started.
1630 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1631 pair_content() and color_content().
1632 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1633 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1634 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1635 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1636 color pairs which are allowed.
1637 + add a top-level tags rule.
1640 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1641 first calling initscr().
1642 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1643 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1644 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1645 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1646 that are curses-specific.
1647 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1648 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1649 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1650 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1654 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1655 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1656 for leading whitespace.
1657 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1658 where a following line begins in column 1.
1659 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1660 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1663 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1666 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1667 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1668 + update config.guess, config.sub
1669 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1670 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1671 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1672 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1673 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1674 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1675 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1678 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1680 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1681 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1684 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1685 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1686 and attr_set functions.
1689 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1690 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1691 forms-demo to be one character short.
1692 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1693 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1694 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1695 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1698 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1699 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1700 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1701 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1703 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1704 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1707 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1708 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1709 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1710 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1711 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1712 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1713 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1715 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1716 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1718 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1719 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1722 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1723 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1724 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1725 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1726 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1727 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1728 wide-character configuration.
1731 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1732 or multicolumn characters.
1735 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1736 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1737 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1738 use_default_colors() be called first.
1741 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1742 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1743 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1744 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1745 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1746 must be wrapped to a new line.
1747 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1748 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1749 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1750 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1751 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1755 + minor fixes for traces.
1756 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1757 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1758 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1762 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1763 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1764 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1765 and shift-out which seem to work.
1766 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1767 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1770 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1771 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1772 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1773 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1777 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1778 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1779 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1780 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1783 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1784 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1785 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1786 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1787 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1788 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1789 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1790 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1791 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1792 is no longer experimental.
1793 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1794 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1797 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1800 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1801 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1802 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1803 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1804 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1805 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1806 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1807 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1810 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1811 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1812 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1813 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1814 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1815 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1816 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1817 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1820 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1821 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1822 > terminfo updates -TD
1823 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1824 with the common usage of bce/ech
1825 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1829 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1830 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1831 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1832 a help window as well.
1833 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1834 the -d option is set.
1835 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1838 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1840 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1841 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1845 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1846 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1847 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1848 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1849 patch by Hans de Goede)
1850 > terminfo updates -TD
1851 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1852 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1853 + add function-keys to decansi
1854 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1855 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1856 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1859 > terminfo updates -TD
1860 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1861 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1863 + review/update konsole entries
1864 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1865 + correct tsl string in kterm
1868 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1871 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1872 multibyte character.
1873 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1875 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1876 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1877 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1878 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1879 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1880 converting termcap to termcap format.
1881 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1882 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1883 > terminfo updates -TD
1884 + minor fixes for emu
1886 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1891 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1892 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1893 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1894 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1895 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1896 > terminfo updates -TD
1897 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1899 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1900 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1901 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1904 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1905 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1907 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1908 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1909 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1910 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1911 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1912 + update config.guess, config.sub
1913 > terminfo updates -TD
1915 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1916 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1917 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1922 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1923 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1924 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1927 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1928 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1929 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1931 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1935 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1936 field_buffer() results.
1937 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1940 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1942 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1943 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1944 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1945 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1946 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1949 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1950 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1951 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1955 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1956 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1958 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1961 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1962 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1963 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1964 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1965 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1966 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1967 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1968 information without an option.
1969 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1970 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1973 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1976 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1977 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1978 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1979 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1980 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1981 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1982 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1984 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1987 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1988 to an unsigned char.
1989 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1990 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1993 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1996 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1997 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1998 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1999 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2000 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2001 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2002 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2003 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2004 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2005 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2006 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2009 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2010 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2011 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2012 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2015 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2017 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2018 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2021 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2022 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2023 mode is shown in that test.
2024 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2025 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2026 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2029 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2031 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2032 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2033 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2034 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2036 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2037 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2038 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2039 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2042 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2043 (request by Mike Aubury).
2044 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2046 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2048 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2051 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2052 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2053 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2054 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2055 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2056 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2057 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2058 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2059 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2060 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2062 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2065 20040207 pre-release
2066 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2067 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2068 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2069 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2070 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2072 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2073 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2074 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2076 20040131 pre-release
2077 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2078 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2079 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2080 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2081 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2082 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2083 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2084 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2085 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2086 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2087 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2089 20040125 pre-release
2090 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2091 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2092 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2093 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2094 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2095 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2096 modifying the displayed value.
2098 20040124 pre-release
2099 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2100 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2101 that works better for cross-compiling.
2103 20040117 pre-release
2104 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2105 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2106 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2107 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2108 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2109 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2110 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2112 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2113 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2115 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2116 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2117 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2118 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2119 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2120 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2121 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2122 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2123 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2124 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2125 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2126 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2128 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2129 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2130 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2131 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2132 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2133 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2134 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2135 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2137 20040110 pre-release
2138 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2139 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2141 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2142 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2144 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2146 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2147 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2148 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2149 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2150 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2153 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2154 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2155 + add pecho_wchar().
2156 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2157 available) on older platforms.
2160 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2161 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2162 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2163 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2164 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2165 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2166 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2167 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2168 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2171 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2172 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2173 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2174 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2175 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2176 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2180 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2181 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2182 applications do not.
2183 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2184 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2185 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2186 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2187 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2188 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2192 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2193 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2194 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2195 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2196 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2197 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2198 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2199 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2200 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2201 awkward for some cases.
2202 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2203 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2205 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2206 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2207 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2208 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2209 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2213 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2214 values (Philippe Blain).
2215 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2216 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2217 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2221 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2222 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2223 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2224 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2225 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2226 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2230 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2231 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2232 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2234 + update config.guess, config.sub
2237 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2238 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2239 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2240 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2241 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2242 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2243 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2245 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2246 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2247 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2248 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2249 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2252 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2253 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2254 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2255 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2256 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2257 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2258 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2259 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2261 + regenerated html documentation.
2262 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2263 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2264 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2267 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2268 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2269 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2270 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2271 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2272 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2273 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2274 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2278 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2279 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2282 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2283 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2284 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2285 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2287 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2288 (report by Philippe Blain).
2291 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2292 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2293 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2294 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2295 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2296 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2297 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2298 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2299 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2301 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2303 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2304 in the clr_bol logic.
2307 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2308 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2309 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2310 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2311 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2312 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2313 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2314 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2315 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2316 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2317 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2318 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2321 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2322 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2323 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2324 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2327 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2328 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2329 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2330 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2331 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2332 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2333 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2334 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2335 --with-install-prefix is used.
2338 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2339 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2340 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2341 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2344 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2345 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2346 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2347 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2348 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2349 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2350 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2351 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2352 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2355 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2356 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2357 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2358 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2359 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2360 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2361 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2364 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2366 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2367 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2368 the size of the scroll-region.
2369 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2372 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2373 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2374 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2378 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2379 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2380 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2381 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2382 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2384 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2385 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2386 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2387 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2388 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2389 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2390 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2391 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2392 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2393 usage and to prevent circular links.
2394 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2395 (rxvt-color): new alias
2396 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2397 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2398 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2399 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2400 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2401 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2403 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2407 + update config.guess, config.sub
2408 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2409 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2412 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2413 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2414 would not accept gcc warning options.
2415 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2416 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2417 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2418 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2419 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2420 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2421 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2423 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2426 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2427 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2428 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2429 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2430 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2431 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2432 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2433 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2436 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2438 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2439 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2440 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2441 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2444 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2446 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2447 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2448 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2449 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2450 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2451 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2454 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2455 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2456 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2457 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2458 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2459 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2460 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2461 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2463 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2464 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2465 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2466 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2469 + regenerated html manpages.
2470 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2471 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2473 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2474 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2476 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2477 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2480 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2481 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2482 + add tkterm entry -TD
2483 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2484 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2485 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2486 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2488 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2489 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2490 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2492 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2493 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2494 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2497 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2498 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2499 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2500 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2502 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2503 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2504 current test programs.
2505 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2506 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2507 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2508 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2510 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2511 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2512 mentioned in the terminfo.
2513 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2514 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2517 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2518 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2519 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2520 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2521 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2522 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2523 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2524 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2527 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2528 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2529 the editing position before making modifications.
2530 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2531 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2532 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2535 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2536 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2537 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2538 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2540 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2541 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2542 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2543 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2544 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2545 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2548 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2549 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2550 code, from recent rewrite.
2551 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2553 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2554 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2557 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2558 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2559 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2560 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2563 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2564 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2566 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2569 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2571 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2572 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2574 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2575 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2576 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2579 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2580 a file when ^W is given.
2581 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2585 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2586 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2587 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2588 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2589 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2590 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2591 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2592 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2596 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2597 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2598 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2601 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2602 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2603 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2604 baudrate was not known.
2605 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2606 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2607 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2608 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2609 corresponding capability might be
2611 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2612 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2613 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2614 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2617 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2618 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2619 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2620 apparently typedef'd.
2621 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2622 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2625 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2626 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2627 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2628 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2629 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2630 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2631 cached for reallocating.
2634 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2635 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2636 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2638 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2639 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2640 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2641 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2642 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2643 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2644 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2645 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2648 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2649 emx-base to the latter -TD
2650 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2651 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2654 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2655 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2656 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2657 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2658 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2661 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2662 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2663 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2664 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2665 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2666 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2667 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2669 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2670 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2671 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2672 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2673 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2676 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2677 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2678 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2679 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2680 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2681 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2683 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2684 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2685 is indeed a "blank".
2686 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2687 sections as small as one line.
2688 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2690 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2691 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2692 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2695 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2696 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2699 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2700 (report by Philippe Blain).
2701 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2702 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2703 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2704 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2705 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2707 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2708 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2709 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2710 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2711 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2712 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2715 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2716 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2718 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2719 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2721 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2722 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2723 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2724 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2727 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2728 overridden from the environment.
2729 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2730 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2731 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2732 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2733 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2734 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2735 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2736 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2737 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2738 by Sam Varshavchik).
2739 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2740 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2741 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2742 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2744 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2745 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2746 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2747 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2748 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2751 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2752 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2753 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2754 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2755 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2756 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2757 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2758 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2759 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2760 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2761 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2762 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2763 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2764 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2765 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2766 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2767 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2768 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2769 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2770 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2771 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2772 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2773 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2776 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2777 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2778 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2779 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2780 winsch() internal function.
2781 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2782 more than one spacing character.
2785 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2786 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2787 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2788 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2789 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2790 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2791 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2792 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2793 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2794 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2797 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2798 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2799 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2800 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2801 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2802 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2803 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2806 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2807 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2808 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2809 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2811 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2812 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2813 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2814 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2815 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2818 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2819 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2820 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2821 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2822 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2823 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2824 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2825 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2826 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2827 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2828 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2829 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2830 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2831 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2832 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2833 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2834 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2837 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2838 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2839 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2840 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2841 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2842 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2843 Frederic L W Meunier).
2845 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2846 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2847 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2848 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2849 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2850 the debug trace in that case.
2851 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2852 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2853 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2854 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2856 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2857 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2859 20021005 pre-release
2860 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2861 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2862 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2863 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2864 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2865 formats such as "%.*s".
2866 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2867 (report Floyd Davidson).
2868 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2870 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2871 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2872 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2874 20020928 pre-release
2875 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2876 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2877 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2879 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2880 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2881 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2882 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2883 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2884 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2885 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2886 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2887 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2888 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2889 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2890 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2891 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2892 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2893 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2894 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2895 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2896 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2897 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2899 20020921 pre-release
2900 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2901 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2902 result in core dump.
2903 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2904 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2905 delimiter rather than '@'.
2906 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2907 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2908 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2909 to the lines given for the destination window.
2911 20020914 pre-release
2912 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2913 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2914 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2915 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2916 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2917 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2918 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2919 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2920 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2921 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2922 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2923 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2925 20020907 pre-release
2926 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2927 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2928 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2929 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2930 html manpages on Debian.
2931 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2932 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2933 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2934 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2935 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2936 a variable from the stack.
2937 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2939 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2940 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2941 _idcok window fields.
2942 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2944 20020901 pre-release
2945 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2946 + update config.guess, config.sub
2947 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2948 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2950 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2951 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2952 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2953 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2954 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2955 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2956 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2957 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2958 use in resizeterm().
2959 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2960 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2961 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2962 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2963 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2964 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2965 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2966 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2967 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2968 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2969 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2973 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2974 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2975 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2976 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2977 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2978 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2981 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2982 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2983 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2984 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2985 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2986 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2987 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2988 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2989 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2991 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2992 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2996 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2997 when translating to termcap.
2998 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2999 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3000 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3002 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3004 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3005 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3007 + document TABSIZE variable.
3008 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3009 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3010 assume_default_colors().
3011 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3013 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3014 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3015 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3016 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3017 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3020 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3022 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3023 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3025 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3026 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3027 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3030 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3032 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3035 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3036 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3037 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3038 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3039 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3040 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3041 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3042 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3043 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3044 configure definitions.
3045 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3046 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3047 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3048 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3049 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3050 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3051 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3052 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3053 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3054 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3055 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3058 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3059 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3060 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3061 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3062 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3063 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3064 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3066 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3067 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3068 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3069 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3072 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3073 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3074 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3075 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3077 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3078 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3079 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3082 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3083 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3085 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3086 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3087 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3089 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3090 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3091 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3092 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3094 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3095 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3096 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3097 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3101 + add charset to generated html.
3102 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3103 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3104 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3105 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3106 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3107 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3111 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3112 key code in get_wch().
3113 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3114 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3115 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3116 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3117 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3118 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3121 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3122 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3124 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3125 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3126 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3127 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3130 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3131 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3132 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3133 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3134 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3135 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3136 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3137 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3138 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3139 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3142 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3146 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3147 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3148 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3149 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3150 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3151 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3152 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3155 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3156 character versions as well.
3157 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3159 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3161 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3162 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3163 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3164 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3165 if gettimeofday() is available.
3168 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3169 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3172 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3174 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3175 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3176 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3177 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3178 + update config.guess, config.sub
3181 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3182 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3183 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3184 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3185 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3186 alias for 'function'.
3189 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3190 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3194 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3195 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3196 + implement win_wchnstr().
3197 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3198 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3201 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3202 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3205 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3206 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3209 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3210 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3211 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3213 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3214 + implement unget_wch().
3215 + implement wget_wch().
3218 + regenerated html manpages.
3219 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3220 + implement wins_wch().
3221 + implement win_wch().
3222 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3225 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3226 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3229 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3230 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3231 + implement key_name().
3232 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3234 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3238 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3239 in spurious symlinks on install.
3242 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3243 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3244 box() and box_set() functions.
3245 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3246 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3247 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3248 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3249 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3250 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3251 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3253 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3255 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3256 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3257 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3258 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3260 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3261 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3264 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3265 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3267 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3271 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3273 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3274 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3275 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3276 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3277 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3278 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3279 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3280 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3281 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3282 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3283 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3284 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3285 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3286 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3287 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3290 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3291 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3294 + update config.guess, config.sub
3295 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3296 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3299 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3300 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3301 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3303 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3304 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3306 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3307 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3308 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3309 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3312 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3315 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3316 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3317 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3318 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3319 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3320 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3321 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3322 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3323 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3325 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3326 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3327 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3329 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3331 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3332 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3333 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3334 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3335 work with SunOS nawk.
3336 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3338 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3339 case it uses multiple tokens.
3342 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3343 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3344 interrupted by that signal.
3345 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3346 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3347 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3348 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3350 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3351 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3352 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3353 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3354 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3357 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3359 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3360 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3361 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3362 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3363 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3364 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3365 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3366 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3369 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3370 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3371 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3372 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3373 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3374 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3375 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3376 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3377 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3380 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3381 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3382 may have different keypad() settings.
3383 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3384 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3385 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3386 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3387 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3388 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3389 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3390 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3392 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3393 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3394 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3395 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3399 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3401 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3402 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3403 implementation in cygwin package).
3404 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3405 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3407 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3408 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3409 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3410 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3411 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3412 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3413 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3414 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3415 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3417 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3418 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3419 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3420 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3421 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3422 <jevans@apple.com>).
3423 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3424 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3425 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3426 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3427 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3431 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3432 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3433 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3434 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3435 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3436 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3437 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3438 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3439 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3440 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3443 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3446 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3447 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3448 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3449 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3450 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3453 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3454 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3457 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3458 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3459 + implement wecho_wchar()
3460 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3461 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3462 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3464 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3465 in a trace by using curly braces.
3466 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3467 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3468 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3469 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3472 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3473 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3474 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3475 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3476 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3480 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3481 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3482 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3483 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3484 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3485 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3486 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3487 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3491 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3492 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3493 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3494 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3495 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3496 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3497 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3498 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3499 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3502 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3503 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3506 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3507 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3508 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3509 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3510 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3511 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3513 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3514 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3516 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3517 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3520 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3521 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3522 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3523 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3524 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3526 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3527 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3529 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3530 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3531 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3532 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3533 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3536 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3537 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3539 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3540 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3541 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3542 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3545 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3546 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3547 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3548 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3549 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3553 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3554 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3555 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3557 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3559 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3561 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3563 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3564 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3565 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3566 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3567 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3568 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3569 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3570 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3571 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3575 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3576 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3577 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3578 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3579 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3580 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3581 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3582 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3583 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3584 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3586 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3587 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3588 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3589 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3590 supports xterm mouse controls.
3591 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3592 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3593 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3594 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3595 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3596 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3597 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3598 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3599 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3600 AX in a color xterm.
3601 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3605 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3606 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3607 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3608 + added llib-ncursesw.
3611 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3612 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3613 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3614 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3615 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3616 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3617 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3618 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3619 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3620 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3621 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3622 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3623 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3624 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3625 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3626 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3627 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3628 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3629 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3630 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3633 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3634 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3635 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3638 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3639 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3640 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3641 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3642 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3643 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3644 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3645 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3646 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3647 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3648 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3649 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3653 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3654 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3655 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3656 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3657 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3658 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3659 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3662 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3663 new wide-character structures.
3664 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3665 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3666 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3667 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3668 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3672 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3674 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3675 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3676 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3678 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3679 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3680 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3683 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3684 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3685 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3688 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3689 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3690 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3691 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3692 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3693 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3694 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3697 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3698 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3699 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3700 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3701 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3702 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3703 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3704 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3705 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3708 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3709 which may be in libutf8.
3710 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3711 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3712 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3713 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3714 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3715 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3716 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3717 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3718 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3719 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3720 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3723 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3724 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3727 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3728 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3729 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3730 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3731 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3733 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3734 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3735 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3736 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3737 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3738 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3739 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3740 are used to manipulate attributes.
3741 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3742 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3743 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3744 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3745 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3746 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3748 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3749 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3750 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3751 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3752 we are using chtype data.
3753 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3755 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3757 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3758 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3759 where a pointer would be more useful.
3760 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3761 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3762 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3763 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3764 passing cchar_t's by address.
3765 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3766 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3767 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3768 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3769 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3770 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3771 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3772 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3775 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3776 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3777 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3778 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3779 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3781 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3782 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3783 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3786 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3787 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3788 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3789 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3790 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3791 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3792 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3793 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3794 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3795 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3796 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3797 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3800 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3801 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3802 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3805 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3806 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3809 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3810 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3811 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3812 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3813 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3816 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3817 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3818 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3819 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3820 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3821 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3822 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3823 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3824 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3825 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3826 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3829 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3830 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3831 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3832 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3833 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3834 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3835 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3836 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3837 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3838 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3839 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3840 any shots there, but the computer did.
3841 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3842 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3846 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3847 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3848 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3849 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3850 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3851 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3854 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3855 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3856 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3857 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3858 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3860 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3862 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3863 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3865 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3867 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3868 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3871 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3872 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3873 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3874 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3875 interface from C++ binding.
3876 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3877 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3878 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3879 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3881 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3882 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3883 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3884 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3887 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3888 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3889 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3890 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3893 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3896 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3900 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3901 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3902 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3903 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3904 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3905 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3906 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3907 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3908 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3909 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3910 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3911 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3914 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3915 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3917 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3918 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3919 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3920 did not do this already.
3921 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3922 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3923 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3924 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3925 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3926 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3927 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3928 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3931 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3932 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3935 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3936 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3937 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3938 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3940 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
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