+ update kitty+common -TD
+ add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+ explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
+ modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
+ review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
with Reuben Thomas).
+ improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
+ modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
Pitman).
needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
+ provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
+ fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
+ change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
needed in to tic's use-resolution work pad_char is cancelled
(report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
+ improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
Sebastian Herlim).
+ fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
+ improve manpage typography.
+ improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
nonprintable characters.
+ add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
+ correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
+ fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
ncrvt100an -TD
+ improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
discussion with Florian Weimer).
+ set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
Pfeifer).
+ add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
+ remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
+ change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
+ simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
+ fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
+ add tmux-direct (tmux #2370)
+ add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
checking consistency with tic.
+ correct configure-check for gnurx library.
+ regenerate llib-* files.
+ modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
panel- and user-pointers.
+ add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
+ build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
+ use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
Anonymous".
+ merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
win32-driver.
+ modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
mawk and lynx).
> errate for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
+ correct icl6404 csr
+ correct ti916 cup
+ improve ndr9500
+ improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
+ make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
man_db.renames file.
+ correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
(report by Yue Tai).
+ add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
+ modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
+ reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
warnings.
+ mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
+ add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
using the string-hacks option.
+ prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
+ amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
(report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
+ improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
+ filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
(discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+ improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
--with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
(discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
+ modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
MinGW.
+ remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
+ add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
(discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+ modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
+ improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
+ set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
"Maarten Anonymous")
+ improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
+ improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
Florian Weimer).
+ reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
Studio C++.
+ define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
> additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
(reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
+ several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
+ change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
+ fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
Bruckl).
+ additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
(reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
Pfeifer).
+ fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
+ fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
+ update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
+ modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
> additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
(patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
+ update list of functions in ncurses.3x
+ move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
#961097).
+ add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
+ add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+ correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
+ re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
+ add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
+ drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
+ add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
+ improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
(report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
(report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
+ fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
+ add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
+ add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
> fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
"Maarten Anonymous"):
+ modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
options into Visual Studio's dialect.
+ omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
+ add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
a performance comparison.
+ build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
+ add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
+ add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
+ modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
those to position reports.
+ improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
+ fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
+ improve see-also section of user_caps.5
+ fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
(report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
+ add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
+ update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
+ modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
> fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
"Maarten Anonymous"):
+ add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
+ define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
C++ preprocessor limitations.
+ modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
+ correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
+ remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
+ improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
+ improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
a corresponding demo of dup_field().
+ add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
+ update copyright notices in test-packages.
+ modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
+ add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
+ modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
background character, because it may be used in cases where the
corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
cf: 20181208).
+ modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
> fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
"Maarten Anonymous"):
+ check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
+ add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
+ add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
+ modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
length array feature.
+ add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
+ remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
+ remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
+ use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
+ conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
+ adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
+ expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
+ improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
+ add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
+ check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
building out-of-tree.
+ improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
+ add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
include all of the required headers for the types used.
+ improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
section as well as documenting error-returns.
+ show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
+ correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
+ add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
+ update release notes
+ minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
+ modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
when cross-compiling.
+ drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
+ define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
+ reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
+ modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
collision handling for Caps-hpux11
+ add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
terminfo and termcap names.
+ fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
+ update a few comments about tack 1.07
+ use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
programs for explain.txt
+ expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
+ improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
+ add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+ update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
Christian Durr) -TD
+ correct spelling errors found with codespell.
+ fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
+ improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
+ suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
"work", to help illustrate discussion in
https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
+ fix some warnings from autoheader-252
+ in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
+ improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
+ modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
+ correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
work with test-packages.
+ improve tracemunch:
+ keep track of TERMINAL* values
+ if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
+ ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
+ add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
discussion with Nick Black).
+ improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
manpage.
+ improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
+ modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
packages.
+ drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
+ add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
+ drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
with old non-curses programs -TD
+ reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
+ use ansi+rep several places -TD
+ corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
cf: 20020901).
+ check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
+ check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
(report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
+ revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
+ add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
+ add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
+ improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
\0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
+ modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
+ modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
with address-sanitizer.
+ modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
+ improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
input string is shorter than expected.
> fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
+ check for missing character after backslash in write_it
+ check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
syntax (cf: 980530).
+ amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
+ clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
+ check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
_nc_find_name_entry.
> fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
+ check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
+ check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
+ check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
mapping (cf: 20060415);
+ check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
+ amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
+ amend the ncurse*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
hack which differed between those files.
+ improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
+ improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
EINTR (cf: 20180922)
+ add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
the screen's borders.
+ modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
and version.
+ add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
by Pascal Pignard).
+ modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
+ amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
details where it still differed from SVr4.
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
+ improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
by Rob King).
+ amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
+ updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
+ updated kitty entry & notes -TD
+ updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
+ use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
+ fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
+ add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
manual pages.
+ correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
(report by Sven Joachim).
+ change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
+ correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
+ add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
+ add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
+ correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
filenames.
+ add ms-terminal -TD
+ add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
+ improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
Edition versions of the tabs utility.
+ add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
Ig Petrov).
+ modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
data for the result from getenv().
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
+ add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
+ modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
+ modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
+ improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
variable.
+ update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
+ add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
+ update terminator entry -TD
+ remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
+ mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
+ mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
+ fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
+ add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
+ add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
+ corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
number of parameters.
+ improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
(report by Pavel Stehule).
+ add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
+ corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
+ check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
+ used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
+ corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
+ reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
+ add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
+ modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
+ add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
(report by Dennis Grevenstein).
+ check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
+ check for missing feature of locale.h
+ add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
+ add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
+ corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
those in compilable form.
+ use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
(report/patch by Werner Fink).
+ regenerate llib-* files.
+ modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
+ modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
+ fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
+ use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
which did not become accepted.
+ in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
capabilities in tic.
+ update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
+ corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
+ add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
user-defined capabilities.
+ amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
+ fix typo in adds200 -TD
+ add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
+ improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
xt, tbc and hts as clues.
+ replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
+ modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
+ modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
+ amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
+ change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
"%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
+ fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
+ eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
+ correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
+ add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
file in Slackware.
+ corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
on some of the BSDs.
+ updated "string-hacks" feature.
+ minor improvements to manpage typography.
+ corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
"Hudd").
+ add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
extended_color_content
+ add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
return values from the tested functions.
+ improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
extensions.
+ add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
+ override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
option was given.
+ change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
+ fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
Modinos).
+ add nsterm-direct -TD
+ use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
+ use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
+ add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
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