ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120512

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1891 2012/04/07 19:17:36 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1904 2012/05/12 23:39:01 tom Exp $

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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started


@@ -45,6 +45,67 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 

+20120512
+       + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
+       + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
+         holding a colored ACS_HLINE.  The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
+         the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
+       + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
+         unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
+       + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
+
+20120505
+       + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
+       + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
+       + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
+       + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
+       + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
+       + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
+       + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
+       + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
+       + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
+       + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
+       + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
+       + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
+       + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
+       + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
+         configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
+
+20120428
+       + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
+       + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
+       + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
+       + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
+       + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
+       + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
+       + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
+       + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
+       + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
+         are interpreted as key definitions.
+       + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
+         capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
+         keys.
+
+20120421
+       + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
+       + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
+       + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
+       + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
+       + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
+         capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
+         as building-blocks -TD
+       + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
+
+20120414
+       + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
+         applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
+         title is a status-line.  -TD
+       + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
+         of ordering and overrides -TD
+       + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
+       + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
+         used in that file -TD
+

 20120407
        + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
          non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
 20120407
        + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
          non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user


@@ -69,7 +130,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          Nicolas Boulenguez).
        + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
          the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
          Nicolas Boulenguez).
        + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
          the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply

-         using -O3 (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
+         using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)

 
 20120324
        + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
 
 20120324
        + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,


@@ -652,7 +713,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
          Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
          distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
        + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
          Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
          distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).

-       + modify configure script to add -g and/or -O3 to ADAFLAGS if the
+       + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the

          CFLAGS for the build has these options.
        + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
          and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
          CFLAGS for the build has these options.
        + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
          and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for


@@ -7082,7 +7143,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
 
 990306 pre-release
          handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
 
 990306 pre-release

-       + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
+       + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.

        + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
          caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
        + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
        + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
          caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
        + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.


@@ -7453,7 +7514,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          since that is a little more efficient.
        + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
          two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
          since that is a little more efficient.
        + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
          two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.

-       + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
+       + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be

          displayed in quoted form.  Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
        + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
          absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
          displayed in quoted form.  Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
        + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
          absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect


@@ -9619,7 +9680,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 960810 - snapshot
        + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
        + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
 960810 - snapshot
        + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
        + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)

-       + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
+       + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).

        + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
          library (Juergen Pfeifer)
 
        + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
          library (Juergen Pfeifer)
 


@@ -9821,7 +9882,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
          allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
          the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
        + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
          allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
          the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).

-       + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
+       + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)

        + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
 
 960526 - snapshot
        + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
 
 960526 - snapshot