--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.714 2002/10/12 22:35:42 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.797 2004/02/08 21:15:26 tom Exp $
This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim.
Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas Dickey.
+20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update TO-DO.
+
+20040207 pre-release
+ + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
+ and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
+ + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
+ range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
+ locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
+ did.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
+ OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
+ verified by Scott Corscadden).
+
+20040131 pre-release
+ + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
+ to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
+ (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
+ + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
+ + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
+ + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
+ (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
+ + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
+ + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
+ + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
+
+20040125 pre-release
+ + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
+ of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
+ forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
+ greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
+ range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
+ ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
+ modifying the displayed value.
+
+20040124 pre-release
+ + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
+ + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
+ that works better for cross-compiling.
+
+20040117 pre-release
+ + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
+ work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
+ zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
+ + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
+ to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
+ + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
+ + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
+ Bianchi).
+ + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
+ (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, Debian
+ #227586).
+ + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
+ exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss, Debian #224443).
+ + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
+ + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
+ + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
+ CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
+ + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
+ simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
+ + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
+ patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
+ + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
+ HPUX .so/.sl case.
+ + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
+ NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
+ + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
+ will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
+ + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
+ intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
+ compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
+ does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
+
+20040110 pre-release
+ + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
+ + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
+ Sittler).
+ + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
+ configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
+ Ievlev).
+ + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
+ Ievlev).
+ + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
+ such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
+ (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
+ of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
+
+20040103
+ + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
+ + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
+ + add pecho_wchar().
+ + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
+ available) on older platforms.
+
+20031227
+ + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
+ + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
+ soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
+ + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
+ for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
+ + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
+ rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
+ by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
+ + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
+
+20031220
+ + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
+ behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
+ behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
+ + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
+ work with Tru64 4.0d.
+ + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
+ list).
+
+20031213
+ + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
+ continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
+ applications do not.
+ + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
+ "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
+ files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
+ + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
+ usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
+ + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
+ Mike Castle).
+
+20031206
+ + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
+ since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
+ non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
+ <inger@altlinux.org>).
+ + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
+ + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
+ George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
+ + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
+ awkward for some cases.
+ + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
+ corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
+ 20000101).
+ + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
+ adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
+ __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
+ + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
+ + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
+ (cf: 20031101).
+
+20031129
+ + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
+ values (Philippe Blain).
+ + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
+ restarting (Philippe Blain).
+ + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
+ <mooz@welho.com>).
+
+20031122
+ + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
+ + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
+ + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
+ to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
+ opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
+ + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
+ $BROKEN_LINKER
+
+20031108
+ + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
+ appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
+ + fix some spelling in comments (reports by jmc, Jonathon Gray).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20031101
+ + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
+ Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
+ + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
+ + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
+ BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
+ + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
+ recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
+ <ps.m@gmx.net>).
+ + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
+ David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
+ under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
+ + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
+ ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
+
+20031025
+ + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
+ + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
+ + check for missing op/oc in tic.
+ + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
+ tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
+ the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
+ + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
+ + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
+ Bienia).
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
+ leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
+ + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
+
+20031018
+ + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
+ + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
+ and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
+ pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
+ + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
+ generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
+ + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
+ require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
+ Koblinger Egmont).
+
+20031004
+ + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
+ + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
+
+20030927
+ + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
+ + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
+ where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
+ + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
+ on white.
+ + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
+ (report by Philippe Blain).
+
+20030920
+ + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
+ libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
+ --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
+ with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
+ + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
+ + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
+ return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
+ range.
+ + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
+ change is found.
+ + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
+ in the clr_bol logic.
+
+20030913
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
+ move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
+ be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
+ Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
+ + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
+ Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
+ putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
+ + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
+ Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
+ successful (typeMalloc can fail).
+ + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
+
+20030906
+ + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
+ work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
+ + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
+ cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
+
+20030830
+ + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
+ --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
+ Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
+ + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
+ parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
+ pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
+ libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
+ able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
+ --with-install-prefix is used.
+
+20030823
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
+ + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
+ assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
+
+20030816
+ + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
+ whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
+ a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
+ + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
+ is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
+ after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
+ + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
+
+20030809
+ + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
+ + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
+ + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
+ + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
+ + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
+ happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
+ --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
+
+20030802
+ + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
+ Daniel Jacobowitz).
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
+ the size of the scroll-region.
+ + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
+
+20030726
+ + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
+ Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
+ + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
+ _GNU_SOURCE check.
+
+20030719
+ + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
+ paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
+ (request by Vincent Lefevre).
+ + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
+ + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
+ Wilson).
+ > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
+ + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
+ and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
+ + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
+ status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
+ + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
+ DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
+ + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
+ primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
+ usage and to prevent circular links.
+ (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
+ (rxvt-color): new alias
+ (rxvt-xpm): new alias
+ (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
+ (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
+ with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
+ which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
+ (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
+ (cygwinDBG): ditto.
+ + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
+ and static libs.
+
+20030712
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+ + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
+ GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
+
+20030705
+ + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
+ platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
+ would not accept gcc warning options.
+ + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
+ get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
+ + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
+ + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
+ 20030628 (report by Tomohiro KUBOTA).
+ + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
+ support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
+ Gabor Z Papp).
+ + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
+
+20030628
+ + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
+ respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
+ data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
+ Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
+ + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
+ strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
+ 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
+ characters (report by Tomohiro KUBOTA).
+
+20030621
+ + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
+ getcurx(), etc.
+ + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
+ multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
+ must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
+ KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>).
+
+20030614
+ + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
+ two cells.
+ + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
+ are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
+ double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
+ <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
+ + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
+ + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
+
+20030607
+ + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
+ properly in a UTF-8 locale.
+ + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
+ by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
+ + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
+ appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
+ + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
+ is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
+ <beren@mac.com>).
+ + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
+ Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
+ versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+
+20030531
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
+ for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
+ (Debian #195230).
+ + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
+ description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
+ name.
+ + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
+ + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
+
+20030524
+ + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
+ characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
+ + add tkterm entry -TD
+ + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
+ 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
+ + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
+ + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
+ tell().
+ + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
+ these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
+ + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
+ feature is broken.
+ + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
+ they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
+ form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
+
+20030517
+ + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
+ be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
+ by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
+ + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
+ by Debian #192860).
+ + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
+ are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
+ current test programs.
+ + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
+ convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
+ + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
+ + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
+ failed.
+ + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
+ key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
+ mentioned in the terminfo.
+ + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
+ drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
+
+20030510
+ + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
+ by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
+ + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
+ "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
+ + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
+ (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
+ + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by jmc
+ <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
+
+20030503
+ + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
+ REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
+ the editing position before making modifications.
+ + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
+ + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
+ to compile rather than using the list of programs.
+
+20030419
+ + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
+ defined, noting that Solaris does this.
+ + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
+ 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
+ string.
+ + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
+ the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
+ command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
+ + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
+ not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
+ terminfo as is done in "screen".
+
+20030412
+ + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
+ + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
+ code, from recent rewrite.
+ + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
+ as in 'e' test.
+ + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
+ ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
+
+20030405
+ + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
+ already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
+ def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
+ such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
+
+20030329
+ + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
+ + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
+ slk_wset().
+ + first draft of slk_wset() function.
+
+20030322
+ + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
+ 1023-byte limit.
+ + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
+ by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
+ calls.
+ + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
+ ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
+ etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
+
+20030315
+ + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
+ a file when ^W is given.
+ + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
+ trace code.
+
+20030308
+ + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
+ infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
+ strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
+ + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
+ to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
+ + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
+ i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
+ + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
+ for errors.
+
+20030301
+ + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
+ + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
+ L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
+
+20030222
+ + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
+ + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
+ for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
+ baudrate was not known.
+ + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
+ glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
+ + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
+ provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
+ corresponding capability might be
+ title=\E]2;%p1%s^G,
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
+ preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
+ insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
+ by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
+
+20030215
+ + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
+ on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
+ bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
+ apparently typedef'd.
+ + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
+ + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
+
+20030208
+ + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
+ + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
+ which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
+ Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
+ + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
+ depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
+ cached for reallocating.
+
+20030201
+ + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
+ + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
+ not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
+ <wr6@uni.de>).
+ + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
+ variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
+ 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
+ results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
+ <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
+ + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
+ the gpm library does not make this check (from bug report for dialog
+ by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
+
+20030125
+ + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
+ emx-base to the latter -TD
+ + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
+ implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
+
+20030118
+ + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
+ case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
+ attributes, e.g., reverse.
+ + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
+ in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
+
+20030111
+ + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
+ attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
+ within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
+ function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
+ + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
+ work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
+ on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
+ Polterak).
+ + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
+ (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
+ misformatted on FreeBSD (from a FreeBSD bug report by Kazuo Horikawa
+ <horikawa@FreeBSD.org>).
+ + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
+
+20030105
+ + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
+ variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
+ + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
+ use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
+ specialized type for the middle initial/name.
+ + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
+ of sed 4.0
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
+ is indeed a "blank".
+ + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
+ sections as small as one line.
+ + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
+ to use it.
+ + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
+ the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
+ affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
+
+20021231
+ + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
+ global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
+
+20021228
+ + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
+ (report by Philippe Blain).
+ + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
+ is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
+ <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
+ + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
+ alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
+ locale.
+ + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
+ special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
+ by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
+ + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
+
+20021221
+ + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
+ enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
+ by Philippe Blain).
+ + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
+ problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
+ Polterak).
+ + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
+ crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
+ the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
+ simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
+
+20021214
+ + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
+ overridden from the environment.
+ + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
+ the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
+ + modify ncurses/modules to allow
+ configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
+ to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
+ + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
+ Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
+ + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
+ force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
+ by Sam Varshavchik).
+ + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
+ gnatmake adds to its version-message.
+ > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
+ + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
+ compiling.
+ + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
+ comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
+ traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
+ + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
+ when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
+
+20021206
+ + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
+ possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
+ <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
+ + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
+ tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
+ + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
+ in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
+ + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
+ 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
+ + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
+ --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
+ + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
+ + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
+ with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
+ ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
+ point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
+ + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
+ prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
+ conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
+ Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
+ + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
+ test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
+
+20021123
+ + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
+ + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
+ + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
+ + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
+ winsch() internal function.
+ + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
+ more than one spacing character.
+
+20021116
+ + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
+ + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
+ (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
+ but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
+ acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
+ + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
+ lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
+ + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
+ Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
+ + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
+
+20021109
+ + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
+ keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
+ vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
+ kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
+ <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
+ + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
+ + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
+
+20021102
+ + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
+ (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
+ + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
+ tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
+ Blain).
+ + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
+ experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
+ dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
+ + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
+ feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
+
+20021026
+ + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
+ generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
+ or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
+ REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
+ with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
+ <Larry@Riedel.org>).
+ + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
+ one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
+ mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
+ 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
+ name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
+ + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
+ where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
+ + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
+ --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
+ + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
+ setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
+
+20021019
+ + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
+ already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
+ + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
+ + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
+ + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
+ + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
+ Frederic L W Meunier).
+
20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
20020727
+ finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
- to resizeterm().
+ to resizeterm().
+ simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
20020720
can be linked.
20020413
- + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
+ + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
+ implement wgetn_wstr().
+ implement win_wchnstr().
+ remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
+ implement key_name().
+ remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
lib_box_set.c
- + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to these.
+ + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
+ these.
20020218
+ remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
options.
> patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
<haering_linux@gmx.de>):
- + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
+ + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
mvwaddwstr.
+ pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
in the C++ runtime.
+ modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
- libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
+ libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
<jevans@apple.com>).
20011001
+ simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
-
+
20010929
+ add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
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