ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130525

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2046 2013/04/13 22:51:41 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2061 2013/05/26 00:08:21 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,44 @@ 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.
 
+20130525
+       + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
+         library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
+         of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
+         it.  This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
+         the left margin of the display.
+       + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
+       + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
+         NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
+         use of these symbols in term_entry.h
+
+20130518
+       + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
+         interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
+       + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
+         20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
+       + regenerated html manpages.
+       + update doctype used for html documentation.
+
+20130511
+       + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
+         plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
+       + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
+       + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
+         prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
+         (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
+
+20130504
+       + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+         + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
+           display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
+         + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
+         + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
+
+20130427
+       + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
+       + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
+
 20130413
        + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
          (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
@@ -2702,7 +2740,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
          --disable-echo option is used.
        + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
-         writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+         writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
        + update config.guess, config.sub
 
 20070707
@@ -5268,7 +5306,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
          pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
          modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables.  Fixes Redhat
-         #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
+         #68199.
        + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
          FreeBSD bug report.  If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
          the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would