ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070714

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1128 2007/05/26 21:46:41 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1143 2007/07/14 23:19:06 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,66 @@ 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.
 
+20070714
+       + add test/savescreen.c test-program
+       + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
+         ".log" to the name and try again.
+       + add konsole-256color entry -TD
+       + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
+       + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
+       + 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).
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20070707
+       + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
+       + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
+         taking into account some split characters on left/right window
+         boundaries.
+
+20070630
+       + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
+         problems with multi-column characters.
+       + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
+         which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
+       + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
+         multi-column extension bits are passed there.
+       + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
+       + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
+         report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
+
+20070623
+       + add test/demo_panels.c
+       + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
+
+20070612
+       + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
+         #226 -TD
+       + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
+         wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070609
+       + add test/key_name.c
+       + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
+       + update test/configure
+       + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
+       + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
+       + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
+         cf: 20020901).
+
+20070602
+       + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
+         (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
+       + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
+         illustrate how to use mvcur().
+       + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the 
+         WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
+         is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+       + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+       + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
+
 20070526
        + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
          if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via