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35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
59 + build/bug-fix for check-size feature (reports by Sam James, Gabriele
64 + provide for padding in check-size feature, using new_prescr() to
71 + remove masking of ISIG in cbreak() (report by Benno Schulenberg).
74 + build-fix for clang on Solaris
79 + modify tput/tset reset feature to avoid 1-second sleep if running in
80 a pseudo-terminal.
81 + modify check-size feature to avoid using it in a pseudoterminal
84 + trim a space after some "-R" options, fixing builds for applications
88 + modify xgterm to work around line-drawing bug -TD
89 + use CSI 3J in vte-2017 (report by Sven Joachim)
94 + fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report
108 xterm #389 -TD
114 + compiler-warning fixes, while investigating an optimizer bug in
120 + minor changes to tracing and locale-checks.
123 + amend change to z39-a (report by Sven Joachim).
124 + use xterm+nopcfkeys, vt52-basic, dec+pp, dec+sl, vt52+arrows,
126 to trim -TD
127 + NetBSD-related fixes for x68k and wsvt25 (patch by Thomas Klausner)
134 xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim -TD
143 to trim -TD
144 + restore padding for wy520* and vt320-k311 (report by Sven Joachim).
148 ansi+idc1, ansi+idl, ansi+idl1, ansi+inittabs to trim -TD
150 + modify doc-html test package's install-directory, per lintian.
155 + add ms-vt100-16color, winconsole -TD
156 + add rio, rio-direct -TD
157 + add mostlike -TD
158 + add wezterm, contour -TD
165 + correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean
168 + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which
171 link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim).
172 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
175 + modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks
176 which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description.
178 + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
180 bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651).
181 + reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks
185 that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types.
195 (report by Branden Robinson).
202 + improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several
213 + used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
215 capabilities with the "-u" option.
216 + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages.
219 intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592).
225 + build-fixes for --with-caps variations.
226 + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL.
230 fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440).
231 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default,
232 as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson).
236 + use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD
237 + add ansi+apparrows -TD
240 + minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings.
243 + make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size"
248 + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng
252 + improve loop-limit for get_position().
258 + modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in
260 environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program
261 with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature.
264 + modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates.
271 just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux,
275 + new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim).
280 + correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by
284 + improve a few pointer-checks.
291 + use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c,
293 + add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script.
297 terminfo manpage (report by Sven Joachim).
300 + fixes for compiler-warnings.
304 + various manpage-formatting fixes.
307 + correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin
311 + add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys in
312 2021 -TD
313 + add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD
314 + add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray).
318 + fixes for compiler-warnings.
329 + add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option.
332 + correct wadd_wch_literal() when adding a non-spacing character to a
333 double-width character.
339 Linux -TD
343 + disallow using $TERMINFO or $HOME/.terminfo when tic "-o" option is
344 used (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #1040048).
352 + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
355 + fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
363 + improve checks in convert_string() for corrupt terminfo entry (report
364 and test-case by Gregory James Duck).
367 + improve manpages discussing file descriptors in low-level functions.
372 + correct definition of Charable() for non-wide ncurses library (report
373 and test-case by Zbigniew Baniewski).
376 + add configure option --with-strip-program, to override program
379 + fix typo in INSTALL (report/patch by Aapo Rantalainen).
380 + improve error-checks for isEILSEQ()
382 + corrected mouse mask in test/testcurs.c
392 + modify test-package "ncurses6-doc" to use manpage-aliases, which in
394 extra-suffix option when deriving alias names.
395 + add mode 1004 to xterm+sm+1006 from xterm #380 -TD
398 > build-fixes related to configure-options and/or platform:
399 + fix for --enable-fvisibility
400 + fix for unusual values of --with-rel-version
401 + fix for unusual values of --with-abi-version
402 + fix for --disable-tcap-names
403 + fix for termcap in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink).
411 + correct copy/paste error in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink).
416 not initialized (report by Ziqiao Kong).
417 + regenerate llib-* files.
426 + add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven
428 + drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08
436 + modify test packages to disable root access/environ options.
437 + modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor
442 + fix copy/paste error in configure option --disable-root-access
443 (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
452 + document limitations of tparm, and error-returns in curs_terminfo.3x
453 + document limitations of tgoto, and error-returns in curs_termcap.3x
455 + add "-v" option to tput, to show warnings.
456 > improve checks for malformed terminfo data (report/analysis by
462 + ignore compiled-terminfo where the array sizes exceed the standard
470 non-printable characters.
471 + modify version-check for gcc/g++, now works for msys2.
473 report problems within the current runtime of tic rather than for
474 conflicts with pre-existing terminal descriptions.
475 + allow for MinGW32-/64-bit configurations to use _DEFAULT_SOURCE
476 + clarify interaction of -R option versus -C, -I and -r in infocmp
478 + build-fix in lib_win32con.c (cf: 20230211).
481 + build-fixes for rpm test-packages.
486 + configure-script improvements:
500 + document XF, kxIN and kxOUT -TD
501 + add note on sun/wscons/cmdtool/shelltool -TD
502 + modify configure script check for pkg-config library directory to
507 + correct limit-check when dumping tc/use clause via tic -I (report by
509 + correct a check for manpage-alias in edit_man.sh, to work with out of
510 tree builds (report by Sven Joachim).
513 + change RV to XR/xr, to avoid conflict with pre-existing usage in vim,
515 Moolenaar) -TD
517 of terminals which may support focus in/out -TD
518 + use xterm+focus in xterm-p370 and tmux -TD
519 + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
522 + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with
525 + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
527 + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar).
534 + regenerate llib-* files.
535 + correct PS vs PE names in bracketed+paste (report by Bram Moolenaar)
536 -TD
539 + add mutex lock/unlock in a few places reported by thread-sanitizer
541 xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD
548 + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs.
549 + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot").
554 + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use
556 + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix
558 + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections
563 + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121).
564 + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html
568 + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no
573 + build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package.
577 + modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression
579 + modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable.
582 + improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report
586 + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script
587 with the extra-suffix configure option.
590 + fix another memory-leak in tic.
591 + update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for
593 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html
596 x32 (report by Sven Joachim):
601 + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test
603 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library
605 install (report by Michal Liszcz).
609 (report by Sam James).
611 get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson)
614 + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler
615 works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g.,
617 different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev).
618 + fix another memory-leak in tic.
619 + correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by
624 + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry
626 + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by
627 processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing.
628 + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g.,
632 + amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using
633 "tic -cv3 terminfo".
635 a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config
636 files (report by Sam James).
639 + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing
644 PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398).
645 + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD
646 + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD
659 + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
660 + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
662 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
667 + check for non-textfiles to tic.
671 + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
673 and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
681 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c
686 + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
687 + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
688 + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
692 pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
697 response -TD
699 supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
700 + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
704 for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
705 + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
706 + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
709 + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
710 needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
712 smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
714 att620, att730 -TD
717 + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
718 merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
722 + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
723 + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD
724 + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
727 + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD
728 + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype
733 + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
735 + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
744 + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
747 + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton).
751 also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
752 + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
760 + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
761 + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
764 + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
766 + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used.
769 + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data
770 (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China).
771 + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is
773 + add setlocale call to several test-programs.
774 + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
782 + make description-fields distinct -TD
785 + update teken -TD
786 + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD
787 + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD
790 + add xgterm -TD
791 + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
793 + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
797 + add xterm+acs building-block -TD
798 + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
799 + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD
800 + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
803 + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
806 + trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
811 + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands
812 + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns
813 + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c
814 + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis.
815 + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding.
816 + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from
824 + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
825 + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
831 + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
834 + minor updates for test-packages
835 + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
837 colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
839 + update kitty -TD
843 + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
845 + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
846 format-warnings.
848 infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
852 state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
862 (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
865 + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
867 + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
873 + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
876 + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
877 + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
880 + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
882 allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
884 + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
885 + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
890 + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
895 + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
896 Sundrup) -TD
897 + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
898 installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
904 its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
905 + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
910 + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
911 + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
914 + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
915 + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
916 none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
917 mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
925 + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
926 a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
930 + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in
931 the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci).
934 + build-fix for pmake with libtool.
935 + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
937 + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
938 + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
939 search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
940 (report by Pascal Pignard).
945 + fill in some details for infoton -TD
946 + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
947 + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
950 + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
954 + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
957 non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
961 + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
962 buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").
963 + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to
969 tput-specific portions.
972 + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from
976 + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD
978 "tabs" +m option -TD
979 + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward
986 + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD
987 + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD
988 + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD
989 + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD
990 + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD
993 + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim,
997 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by
998 kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD
999 + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color
1000 manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4.
1001 + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black).
1002 + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh).
1003 + build-fix for compiling link_test
1008 + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis
1011 parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list
1012 (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request).
1024 + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
1025 + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
1027 + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
1028 SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
1029 + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
1030 by Florian Weimer) -TD
1038 + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
1043 + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
1044 but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
1045 + add foot and foot-direct -TD
1049 ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1050 + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
1053 + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
1054 against Glink manual -TD
1056 vt220 entry -TD
1057 + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
1058 (report by Juergen Pfeifer).
1059 + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
1060 who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
1061 + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
1067 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
1070 the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
1075 in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
1079 + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
1080 disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
1081 + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
1082 + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
1083 + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
1084 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1087 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
1088 as --with-valgrind
1092 + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
1096 + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
1101 an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1104 + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
1107 report/testcase by Bill Gray)
1112 report/testcase by Bill Gray).
1117 is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
1119 + fix several warnings from clang --analyze
1120 + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers
1121 to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav
1126 build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
1127 https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
1135 _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks
1140 + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed
1142 + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories.
1143 + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports
1147 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
1148 from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
1151 + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
1157 + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
1159 + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
1160 leak-checking off later in a set of options.
1161 + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
1164 + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
1170 + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh
1171 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs,
1175 + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn
1176 keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by
1180 + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any
1182 capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town,
1184 + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of
1185 _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1186 + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD
1187 + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger)
1188 + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that
1190 + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is
1195 + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
1197 + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
1199 + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
1219 this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
1221 + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
1222 + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
1223 + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
1224 + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
1225 + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
1228 + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
1231 wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
1237 + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
1238 (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
1239 + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
1240 option, from xterm #363 -TD
1242 writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
1243 cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
1246 + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
1247 scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
1248 right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
1249 + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
1250 + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
1251 supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
1252 + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
1253 + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
1255 blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
1258 + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
1260 the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
1261 + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
1266 (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
1268 adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
1284 + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
1288 + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
1289 + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
1294 + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
1298 + improve manual pages for form field-types.
1301 + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
1308 + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
1309 + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
1313 + add rep to PuTTY -TD
1314 + add putty+keypad -TD
1315 + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
1317 low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
1319 -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
1323 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
1324 + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
1325 (report by Steven Pitman).
1328 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
1333 when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
1336 + update kitty+common -TD
1337 + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
1339 upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
1348 + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
1349 is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
1353 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
1355 Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
1356 + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
1357 needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
1358 (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
1359 + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
1361 parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
1363 + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
1370 + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
1374 + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
1376 ncrvt100an -TD
1379 + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
1383 + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
1384 + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
1385 + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
1387 + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
1388 + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
1392 + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
1393 + regenerate llib-* files.
1395 panel- and user-pointers.
1398 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
1402 curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
1405 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
1406 the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
1407 + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
1411 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
1415 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
1416 win32-driver.
1420 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
1424 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
1426 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
1427 win32-driver.
1428 + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
1429 to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
1431 > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
1437 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
1438 + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
1440 + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
1441 (report by Yue Tai).
1443 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
1444 option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
1445 provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
1448 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
1450 + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
1452 using the string-hacks option.
1454 option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
1458 (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
1459 + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
1460 + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
1465 of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
1466 + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
1467 AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
1468 --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
1469 fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
1471 + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
1472 + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
1487 + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
1488 + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
1492 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
1501 + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
1504 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
1508 + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
1512 buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
1514 trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
1517 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
1518 the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
1525 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
1527 + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
1537 in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
1539 screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
1540 + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
1541 + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
1544 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
1545 + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
1546 + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1547 + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
1549 + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
1550 handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
1551 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1552 + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
1554 passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
1555 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1556 + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
1557 string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1560 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
1563 which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
1564 is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
1565 + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
1566 generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
1568 to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
1573 + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
1578 + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
1581 + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
1583 + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
1587 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
1588 + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
1589 + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
1593 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
1601 + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
1602 + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
1606 (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
1607 + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
1611 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
1614 + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
1617 + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
1622 + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
1626 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
1627 + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
1638 + update copyright notices in test-packages.
1640 + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
1646 corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
1650 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
1654 + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
1659 + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
1668 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
1669 + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
1670 + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
1671 + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
1672 building out-of-tree.
1679 section as well as documenting error-returns.
1687 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
1691 when cross-compiling.
1693 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
1694 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
1698 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
1702 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
1703 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
1707 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
1712 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
1715 Christian Durr) -TD
1722 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
1728 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
1729 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
1732 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
1735 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
1736 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
1737 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
1741 work with test-packages.
1747 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
1751 leak-checking.
1754 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
1762 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
1765 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
1770 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
1772 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
1777 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
1778 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
1779 with old non-curses programs -TD
1780 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
1781 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
1782 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
1788 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
1790 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
1794 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
1796 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
1797 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
1798 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
1801 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
1802 with address-sanitizer.
1805 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
1808 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
1810 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
1816 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
1817 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
1824 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
1830 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
1831 -I and -l options.
1834 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
1836 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
1837 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
1842 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
1844 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
1848 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
1851 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
1855 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
1856 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
1859 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
1864 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1869 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1879 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
1880 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
1881 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
1882 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
1883 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
1898 (report by Sven Joachim).
1901 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
1907 + add domterm -TD
1908 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
1911 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
1912 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
1914 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
1916 + add ms-terminal -TD
1917 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
1924 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
1935 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
1936 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
1938 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1939 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
1941 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
1945 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
1951 (report by Vincent Huisman).
1954 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
1955 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
1956 + update terminator entry -TD
1957 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
1962 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
1964 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
1966 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
1972 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
1973 (report by Pavel Stehule).
1974 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
1975 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
1990 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
1994 split-up Caps-files.
1995 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
1998 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
1999 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
2001 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
2004 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
2005 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
2014 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
2017 + regenerate llib-* files.
2018 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
2019 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
2021 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
2026 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
2029 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
2033 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
2034 user-defined capabilities.
2036 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
2039 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
2041 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
2044 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
2052 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
2055 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
2057 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
2058 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
2061 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
2064 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
2067 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
2073 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
2077 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
2079 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
2081 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
2084 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
2089 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
2091 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
2095 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
2097 + add nsterm-direct -TD
2098 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
2099 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
2100 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
2103 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
2104 building test-packages for Arch.
2105 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
2118 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
2125 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
2126 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
2127 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
2139 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
2143 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
2149 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
2152 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
2153 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
2156 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
2157 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
2161 (report by Tomas Janousek).
2165 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
2166 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
2167 the compiled-in search list.
2176 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
2177 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
2181 from the infocmp -Q option.
2182 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
2183 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
2184 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
2186 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
2193 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
2198 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
2199 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
2200 + add alias n7900 -TD
2201 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
2202 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
2203 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
2204 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
2205 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
2206 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
2207 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
2210 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
2214 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
2218 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
2222 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
2224 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
2226 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
2228 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
2243 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
2244 deb test-packages.
2245 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
2247 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
2251 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
2255 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
2257 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
2258 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
2263 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
2264 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
2265 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2268 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
2270 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
2273 + build-fixes for gcc8.
2274 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
2275 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
2276 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
2280 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
2283 + build-fixes for gcc8.
2286 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
2291 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
2292 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
2294 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
2302 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
2303 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
2311 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
2316 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
2327 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
2328 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
2333 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
2335 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
2340 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
2341 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
2342 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
2343 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
2344 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
2350 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
2357 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
2359 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
2360 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
2361 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
2366 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
2368 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
2369 (report by Leon Winter).
2370 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
2379 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
2381 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
2382 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
2383 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
2402 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
2404 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
2405 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
2413 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
2420 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
2423 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
2427 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
2428 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
2430 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
2439 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
2440 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
2441 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
2444 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
2446 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
2447 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
2452 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
2453 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2454 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
2466 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
2469 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
2479 not suitable -TD
2480 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
2481 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
2482 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
2484 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
2486 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
2487 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
2488 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
2489 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
2490 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
2491 + add iterm2-direct -TD
2492 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
2493 + add mlterm-direct -TD
2494 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
2496 20180121 pre-release
2499 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
2500 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
2501 #331 -TD
2503 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
2504 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
2505 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
2506 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
2507 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
2508 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
2509 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
2510 direct-colors are wanted -TD
2511 + add vte-direct -TD
2514 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
2516 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
2517 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
2519 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
2520 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
2523 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
2525 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
2527 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
2530 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
2531 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
2534 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
2535 wide-character configuration to 32768.
2538 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
2539 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
2540 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
2541 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
2545 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
2549 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
2550 256-, etc., colors.
2551 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
2553 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
2556 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
2557 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
2559 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
2560 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
2564 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
2567 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
2569 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2572 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
2573 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
2576 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2578 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
2580 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
2581 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
2584 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
2596 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
2598 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
2602 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
2603 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
2608 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
2609 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
2610 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
2617 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
2619 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
2621 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
2626 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
2634 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
2636 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
2637 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
2639 account for xon -TD
2643 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
2644 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
2645 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
2646 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
2647 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
2648 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
2653 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
2654 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
2655 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
2656 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
2659 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
2663 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
2666 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
2667 (report by Midolikawa H).
2669 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
2672 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
2674 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
2676 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
2677 directory-tree terminal databases.
2679 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
2684 than in the test-program.
2686 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
2687 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
2691 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
2697 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
2702 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
2707 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
2709 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
2712 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
2713 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
2714 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
2716 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2723 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
2725 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
2729 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
2730 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
2736 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
2737 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
2745 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
2748 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
2751 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
2752 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
2753 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
2757 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
2762 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
2763 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
2769 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
2772 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2795 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
2799 + update "iterm" entry -TD
2800 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2801 + regenerate llib-* files.
2803 + improve picsmap test-program:
2805 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
2806 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
2808 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
2814 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
2821 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
2822 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2823 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
2827 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
2829 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
2831 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
2833 + improve picsmap test-program:
2836 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
2837 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2838 + add "-l" option for logging
2839 + add "-d" option for debugging
2840 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
2847 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
2849 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
2850 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
2851 Williams) -TD
2853 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
2858 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
2863 tack for memory-leak checking.
2864 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
2865 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
2867 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
2868 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
2869 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
2871 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
2874 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
2877 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
2878 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
2881 term-driver configuration.
2884 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
2885 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
2887 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
2890 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
2892 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
2893 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
2896 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
2899 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
2900 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
2906 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
2908 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
2910 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
2913 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
2916 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
2919 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
2922 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
2923 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
2925 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
2926 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2927 (report by Allen Hewes).
2932 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2933 (report by Allen Hewes).
2934 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
2937 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
2939 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
2940 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
2946 (report by Allen Hewes).
2947 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
2949 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
2951 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
2955 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
2960 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
2961 to xterm-256color.
2964 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2965 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
2971 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
2978 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
2983 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
2991 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
2992 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
2994 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
2999 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
3000 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
3012 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
3013 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
3019 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
3020 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
3022 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
3031 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
3038 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
3042 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
3046 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
3050 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
3056 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
3061 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
3062 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
3063 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
3064 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
3065 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
3066 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
3068 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
3069 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
3071 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
3073 calls to get original tty-modes.
3075 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
3077 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
3080 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
3086 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
3087 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
3089 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
3092 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
3094 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
3096 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
3097 called (report by "Kau").
3108 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
3110 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
3111 + regenerate man-html documentation.
3115 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
3118 terminal emulators -TD
3119 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
3120 + add fbterm -TD
3123 8-bit limit on colors
3133 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
3138 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
3146 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
3147 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
3150 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
3153 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
3154 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
3155 --enable-sp-funcs option.
3158 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
3163 to db-iterator.
3164 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
3167 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
3168 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
3170 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
3174 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
3175 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
3176 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
3180 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
3184 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
3185 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
3205 either reset- or init-strings.
3210 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
3211 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
3212 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
3214 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
3220 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
3222 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
3223 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
3225 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
3230 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
3240 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
3247 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
3248 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
3254 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
3259 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
3268 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
3269 ncv capability -TD
3271 reverse-video control -TD
3272 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
3273 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
3274 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
3278 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
3279 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
3284 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
3287 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
3290 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
3291 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
3292 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
3297 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
3303 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
3306 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
3311 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
3320 + regenerate llib-* files.
3327 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
3330 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
3331 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
3332 a given line-length.
3333 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
3334 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
3342 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
3351 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
3352 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
3353 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
3357 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
3365 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
3378 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
3385 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
3386 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
3387 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
3388 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
3390 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
3393 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
3401 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
3404 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
3405 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
3430 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
3432 work (report by Sven Joachim).
3435 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
3436 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
3440 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
3443 better testing of function-keys.
3444 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
3445 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
3446 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
3447 that could be returned -TD
3448 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
3451 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
3459 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
3462 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
3465 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
3466 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
3468 cannot combine -c and -o options.
3474 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
3475 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
3476 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
3477 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
3481 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
3484 + check return-value of putwin
3486 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
3487 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
3490 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
3492 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
3494 xterm -TD
3501 due to program-transformation configure options.
3502 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
3505 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
3515 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
3522 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
3523 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
3524 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
3525 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
3530 as responding to window size-changes.
3534 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
3540 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
3541 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
3543 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
3544 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
3566 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
3567 (report by Corey Minyard).
3568 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
3571 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
3572 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
3573 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
3574 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
3575 Schenkel) -TD
3576 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
3580 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
3584 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
3585 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
3587 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
3597 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
3599 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
3600 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
3610 drawing characters as double-width.
3617 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
3619 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
3620 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
3635 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
3636 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
3637 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
3645 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
3649 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
3650 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
3654 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
3655 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
3662 to incorrect attribute-masking.
3675 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
3678 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
3679 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
3681 Internet Archive -TD
3688 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
3691 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
3692 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
3705 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
3710 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
3718 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
3719 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
3722 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
3728 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
3729 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
3734 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
3735 UTF-8.
3736 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
3737 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
3738 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
3740 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
3746 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
3749 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
3750 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
3754 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
3755 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
3757 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
3761 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
3762 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
3767 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
3768 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
3775 + updated llib-* files.
3776 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
3780 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
3781 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
3788 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
3793 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
3799 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
3804 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
3805 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
3809 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
3810 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
3816 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
3818 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
3819 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
3820 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
3826 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
3833 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
3837 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
3839 20150606 pre-release
3842 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
3843 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
3844 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
3846 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
3848 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
3851 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
3852 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
3857 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
3858 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
3859 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
3861 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
3869 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
3871 for 256 colors -TD
3872 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
3873 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
3877 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
3878 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
3879 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
3887 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
3888 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
3890 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
3891 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
3897 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
3898 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
3899 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
3900 Debian #783486) -TD
3901 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
3903 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
3904 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
3908 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
3909 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
3910 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
3913 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
3915 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
3916 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
3918 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
3919 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
3925 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
3926 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
3932 (report by Todd M Lewis).
3933 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
3935 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
3936 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
3937 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
3938 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
3940 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3941 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
3942 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3943 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
3945 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
3946 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
3951 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
3952 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
3954 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
3956 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
3957 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
3958 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
3959 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
3960 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
3962 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
3967 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
3972 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
3973 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
3976 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
3980 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
3984 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
3985 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
3988 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
3999 (report by Grady Martin).
4002 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
4003 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
4004 the wide-character libraries.
4005 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
4007 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
4013 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
4028 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
4029 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
4030 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
4035 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
4040 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
4043 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
4046 (report by Pavel Balaev).
4052 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
4057 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
4061 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
4066 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
4070 regenerate html-manpages.
4073 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
4074 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
4076 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
4079 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
4080 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
4084 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
4093 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
4094 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
4101 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
4109 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
4113 symbol-versioning.
4116 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
4121 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
4126 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
4132 (report by Mike Gran).
4141 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
4142 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
4143 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
4145 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
4151 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
4153 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
4154 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
4155 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
4156 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
4158 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
4159 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
4160 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
4163 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
4165 some older cross-compiler environments.
4166 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
4171 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
4177 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
4178 C++ cross-compilers.
4179 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
4182 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
4184 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
4188 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
4192 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
4193 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
4198 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
4199 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
4202 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
4210 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
4219 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
4222 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
4223 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
4224 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
4225 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
4229 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
4230 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
4236 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
4240 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
4241 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
4245 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
4246 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
4247 without sp-funcs.
4251 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
4256 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
4258 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
4263 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
4264 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
4266 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
4268 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
4270 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
4275 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
4277 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
4278 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
4279 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
4280 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
4281 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
4285 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
4286 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
4288 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
4293 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
4295 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
4296 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
4298 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
4300 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
4301 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
4302 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
4303 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
4304 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
4309 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
4311 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
4312 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
4313 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
4314 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
4315 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
4316 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
4319 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
4320 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
4324 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
4330 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
4350 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
4361 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
4365 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
4370 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
4372 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
4373 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
4382 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
4383 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
4386 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
4387 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
4389 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
4391 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
4396 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
4399 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
4401 0.4.1 -TD
4404 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
4407 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
4409 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
4410 + add terminology entry -TD
4411 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
4412 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
4416 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
4427 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
4430 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
4434 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
4436 console -TD
4439 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
4440 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
4443 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
4444 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
4445 scrolling-stages.
4446 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
4453 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
4471 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
4476 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
4479 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
4481 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
4482 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
4486 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
4487 + updated llib-l* files.
4490 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
4495 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
4501 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
4502 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
4503 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
4504 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
4505 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
4506 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
4507 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
4509 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
4510 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
4511 -Wvarargs
4521 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
4522 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
4523 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
4526 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
4529 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
4530 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
4531 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
4536 compiling ncurses-examples.
4537 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
4540 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
4544 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
4546 cross-compiles to MinGW.
4547 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
4551 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
4552 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
4556 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
4559 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
4561 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
4564 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
4565 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
4569 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
4570 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
4573 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
4577 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
4580 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
4582 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
4595 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
4596 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
4599 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
4605 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
4610 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
4611 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
4613 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
4614 cross-compile support packages.
4615 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
4619 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
4620 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
4621 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
4623 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
4625 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
4626 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
4627 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
4628 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
4629 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
4637 + minor compiler-warning fixes
4643 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
4644 --enable-auto-import flag.
4661 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
4662 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
4663 tab-lists options.
4664 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
4667 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
4668 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
4669 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
4672 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
4673 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
4677 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
4679 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
4680 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
4682 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
4683 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
4684 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
4686 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
4687 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
4703 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
4709 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
4710 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
4711 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
4712 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
4718 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
4719 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
4720 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
4721 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
4730 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4732 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
4735 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4736 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
4737 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4744 in cross-compiling.
4747 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
4749 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
4752 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
4756 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
4757 (report by Christian Ebert).
4759 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
4760 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
4764 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
4765 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
4767 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
4768 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
4769 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
4771 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
4773 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
4775 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
4776 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
4782 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
4785 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
4786 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
4790 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
4794 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
4805 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
4815 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
4819 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
4821 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
4826 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
4828 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
4829 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
4843 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
4844 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
4850 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
4855 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
4856 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
4858 + improve error-checking in copywin
4860 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
4864 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
4875 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
4880 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
4885 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
4886 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
4890 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
4891 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
4892 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
4896 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
4898 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
4899 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
4903 wide-character which can be used.
4906 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
4907 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
4908 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
4911 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4913 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
4915 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
4916 test-programs.
4924 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4935 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
4940 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
4946 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
4947 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4948 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
4951 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4954 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
4957 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
4958 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
4960 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
4963 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
4967 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
4970 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
4980 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
4982 (report by Reuben Thomas).
4985 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
4986 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
4987 based on testing with tack -TD
4988 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
4989 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
4994 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
5003 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
5008 --version message.
5030 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
5036 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
5039 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
5042 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
5048 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
5049 initial screen-sizes.
5051 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
5056 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
5060 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
5062 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
5064 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
5065 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
5069 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
5071 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
5073 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
5074 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
5079 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
5080 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
5081 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
5082 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
5083 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
5085 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
5090 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
5093 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
5103 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
5113 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
5116 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
5118 llib-lncurses.
5119 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
5120 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
5123 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
5124 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
5129 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
5138 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
5140 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
5144 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
5148 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
5149 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
5150 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
5151 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
5152 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
5153 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
5154 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
5155 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
5156 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
5157 command-line.
5160 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
5164 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
5168 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
5169 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
5172 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
5175 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
5178 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
5181 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
5182 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
5183 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
5184 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
5185 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
5186 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
5187 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
5188 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
5189 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
5190 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
5191 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
5192 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
5194 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
5195 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
5198 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
5199 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
5200 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
5201 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
5202 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
5203 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
5204 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
5205 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
5214 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
5215 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
5216 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
5217 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
5219 as building-blocks -TD
5220 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
5225 title is a status-line. -TD
5226 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
5227 of ordering and overrides -TD
5229 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
5230 used in that file -TD
5233 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
5234 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
5242 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
5243 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
5244 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
5250 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
5254 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
5256 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
5271 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
5277 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
5279 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
5286 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
5289 debug-trace.
5291 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
5292 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
5294 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
5298 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
5302 cross-compiling.
5303 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
5308 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
5315 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
5316 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
5319 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
5320 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
5324 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
5325 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
5326 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
5327 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
5328 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
5329 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
5330 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
5331 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
5332 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
5333 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
5334 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
5338 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
5342 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
5343 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
5344 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
5345 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
5346 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
5347 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
5348 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
5349 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
5350 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
5351 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
5353 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
5358 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
5365 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
5373 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
5374 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
5381 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
5384 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
5387 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
5389 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
5390 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
5392 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
5393 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
5400 + add putty-sco entry -TD
5403 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
5405 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
5407 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
5411 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
5421 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
5422 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
5426 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
5436 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
5443 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
5450 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
5457 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
5461 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
5463 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
5465 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
5467 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
5473 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
5486 (report by Peter Kruse).
5490 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
5494 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
5499 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
5500 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
5501 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
5508 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
5509 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
5514 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
5515 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
5519 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
5525 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
5531 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
5536 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
5538 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
5544 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
5551 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
5552 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
5554 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
5555 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
5556 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
5557 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
5559 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
5562 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
5565 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
5568 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
5569 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
5576 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
5577 + add terminator entry -TD
5578 + add simpleterm entry -TD
5584 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
5585 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
5587 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
5588 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
5591 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
5594 error-return.
5599 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
5600 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
5601 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
5605 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
5606 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
5608 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
5614 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
5624 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
5638 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
5644 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
5646 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
5649 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
5651 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
5662 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
5663 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
5664 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5665 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
5666 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
5667 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
5668 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
5669 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
5681 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
5686 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
5694 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
5711 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
5724 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
5727 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
5728 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
5731 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
5732 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
5733 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
5734 help work around weak-symbol issues.
5740 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
5741 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
5742 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
5744 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
5745 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
5747 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
5751 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
5753 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
5760 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
5764 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
5766 + modify test/background.c, adding command-line options to demonstrate
5770 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
5772 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
5780 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
5781 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
5787 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
5788 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
5790 the in-tree build of sample programs.
5793 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
5794 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
5812 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
5822 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
5825 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
5832 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
5833 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
5835 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
5838 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5839 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
5842 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
5844 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
5851 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
5856 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
5857 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5862 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
5867 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
5868 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5870 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
5881 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
5885 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
5887 wide-character configuration.
5888 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
5889 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
5897 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
5899 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
5906 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
5907 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
5908 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
5915 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
5916 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
5918 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5920 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
5921 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
5928 clang --analyze.
5930 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
5944 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
5947 wide-character configuration.
5949 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
5958 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
5959 (report by Sven Joachim).
5963 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
5964 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
5967 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
5968 out-of-tree.
5969 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
5970 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
5975 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
5976 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
5981 since 2003 -TD
5985 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
5991 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
5993 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
5997 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
6000 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
6001 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
6005 tree (report by Werner Fink).
6006 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
6009 (report by John P. Hartmann)
6010 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
6013 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
6014 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
6015 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
6016 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
6017 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
6023 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
6024 inconsistent printer-controls.
6025 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
6026 form is available -TD
6028 ANSI -TD
6031 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
6033 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
6034 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
6035 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
6037 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
6038 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
6043 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
6044 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
6046 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
6053 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
6054 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
6057 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
6058 and form-libraries.
6060 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
6066 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
6070 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
6071 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
6075 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
6082 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
6085 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
6086 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
6093 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
6097 e.g., for cross-compiling.
6099 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
6107 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
6113 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
6115 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
6117 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
6118 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
6122 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
6124 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
6134 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
6139 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
6140 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
6146 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
6149 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
6155 work with 64-bit compiles.
6161 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
6165 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
6166 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
6169 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
6170 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
6172 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
6173 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
6174 build- and target-machines differ.
6175 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
6176 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
6179 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
6182 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
6186 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
6187 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
6188 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
6199 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
6202 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
6218 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
6236 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
6238 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
6239 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
6240 extended-colors configuration.
6241 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
6242 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
6243 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
6252 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
6257 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
6258 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
6262 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
6263 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
6264 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
6265 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
6266 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
6267 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
6268 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
6270 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
6274 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
6277 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
6280 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
6281 Ada95/make-tar.sh
6283 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
6284 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
6287 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
6289 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
6294 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
6297 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
6298 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
6299 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
6307 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6310 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
6313 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
6318 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
6323 that line-drawing works.
6327 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
6332 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
6339 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
6356 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
6357 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
6358 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
6363 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
6365 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
6366 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
6373 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
6388 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
6390 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
6393 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
6397 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
6399 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
6400 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
6404 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
6405 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
6406 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
6412 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
6417 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
6418 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
6422 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
6423 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
6431 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
6432 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
6436 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
6440 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
6446 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
6449 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
6450 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
6451 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
6455 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
6456 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
6458 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
6460 + add linux-16color
6461 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
6465 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
6467 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
6468 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
6470 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
6472 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
6476 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
6477 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
6481 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
6482 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
6484 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
6495 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
6500 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
6503 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
6507 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
6509 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
6510 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6513 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
6518 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6521 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
6524 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
6526 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
6530 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
6531 enable-type switch.
6532 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6540 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
6545 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
6548 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6553 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
6557 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6560 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
6564 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
6565 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
6574 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
6578 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
6581 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6584 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
6585 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
6588 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
6593 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
6594 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6600 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6603 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
6604 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
6605 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
6606 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6609 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6619 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6622 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6626 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6629 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
6633 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6636 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6642 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
6645 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
6646 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
6647 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
6650 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
6653 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
6655 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
6657 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
6663 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
6665 using that in the libtool link-commands.
6668 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
6671 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
6672 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
6677 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
6678 (report by Charles Wilson).
6681 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
6686 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
6688 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
6697 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
6698 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
6699 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
6702 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6703 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
6704 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
6707 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6710 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
6722 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6724 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
6731 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
6732 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
6735 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
6737 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
6738 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
6740 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
6746 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
6747 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
6750 adacurses-config
6751 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
6752 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
6755 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
6757 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
6758 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
6759 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
6760 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6763 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
6764 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
6767 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
6768 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
6771 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
6772 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
6773 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
6774 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
6775 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
6776 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
6779 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
6785 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
6790 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
6791 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
6798 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
6800 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
6806 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
6807 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
6810 search-lists.
6817 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
6818 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
6819 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
6820 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
6821 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
6823 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
6828 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
6833 display meta-characters.
6835 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
6837 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
6843 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
6845 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
6849 clear-all-tabs -TD
6851 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
6859 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
6862 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
6864 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
6866 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
6867 --disable-database is used.
6868 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
6876 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
6877 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
6878 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
6879 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
6880 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
6881 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
6886 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
6889 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
6891 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
6896 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
6898 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
6902 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
6904 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
6907 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
6910 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
6912 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
6914 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
6924 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
6926 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
6928 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
6932 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
6933 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
6936 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6941 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
6942 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
6943 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6955 C-version.
6956 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
6958 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
6966 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
6978 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
6979 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
6980 Debian #495815) -TD
6983 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
6984 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
6987 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
6990 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
6993 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
6998 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
7001 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
7002 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
7005 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
7009 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
7012 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
7016 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
7018 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
7019 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
7020 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
7024 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
7029 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
7030 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
7036 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
7041 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
7042 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
7043 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
7052 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
7071 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
7073 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
7077 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
7078 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
7082 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
7083 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
7087 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
7096 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
7099 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
7100 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
7102 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
7115 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
7117 python-dev2 mailing list).
7120 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
7126 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
7127 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
7130 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
7131 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
7135 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
7137 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
7138 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
7141 wide-characters with extended-colors.
7150 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
7161 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
7171 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
7175 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
7182 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
7183 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
7192 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
7197 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
7203 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
7206 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
7207 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
7208 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
7209 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
7210 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
7214 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
7229 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
7232 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
7233 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
7237 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
7238 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
7242 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
7243 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
7245 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
7246 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
7254 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
7261 cursor keys -TD
7263 Rong-En Fan).
7269 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
7270 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
7276 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
7282 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7290 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
7291 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
7294 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
7295 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
7296 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
7303 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
7304 Rong-En Fan).
7310 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
7312 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
7313 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
7314 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7315 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7318 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
7320 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
7324 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
7327 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
7332 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
7338 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
7339 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
7340 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
7353 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
7354 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
7368 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
7369 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
7374 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
7375 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
7377 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
7379 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
7381 --disable-echo option is used.
7382 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
7387 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
7388 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
7394 problems with multi-column characters.
7395 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
7396 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
7398 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
7399 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
7401 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
7408 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
7409 #226 -TD
7410 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
7411 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
7418 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
7419 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
7423 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
7427 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
7429 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
7430 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
7431 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
7442 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
7446 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
7457 memory-checking.
7462 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
7473 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
7486 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
7487 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
7491 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
7492 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
7497 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
7498 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
7504 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
7506 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
7510 > fixes based on Coverity report:
7519 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
7523 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
7524 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
7525 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
7526 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
7527 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
7528 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
7529 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
7530 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
7534 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
7536 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
7538 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
7540 + improved install-sh's quoting.
7547 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
7553 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
7554 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
7555 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
7558 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
7560 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
7561 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
7563 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
7564 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
7567 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
7568 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7571 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
7572 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
7574 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
7595 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
7597 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
7599 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
7606 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
7607 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7611 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
7617 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
7620 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
7621 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
7623 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
7624 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7625 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
7626 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7627 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
7628 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7632 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
7633 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7637 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
7639 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
7642 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
7649 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
7652 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
7654 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
7657 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
7658 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
7662 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
7663 (report by Rong-En Fan).
7667 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
7671 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7672 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
7675 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
7676 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
7679 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
7681 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
7682 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
7686 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
7687 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
7689 ncurses build-tree.
7690 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
7700 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7706 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
7709 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
7710 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
7714 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
7715 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
7716 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
7728 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
7729 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
7733 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
7736 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
7741 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
7743 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
7760 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
7763 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
7769 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
7770 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
7777 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
7786 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
7787 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
7790 + add AUTHORS file -TD
7791 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
7800 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
7801 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
7802 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
7810 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
7814 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
7815 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
7818 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
7821 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
7822 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
7827 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
7829 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
7830 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
7833 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
7835 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
7836 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
7841 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7842 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
7843 option (from lynx changes) -TD
7847 by report by Christopher Parker).
7851 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
7853 since it does not really do this -TD
7857 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
7859 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
7862 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
7866 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
7869 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
7873 terminal (mgt) -TD
7882 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
7887 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
7888 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
7900 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
7901 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
7905 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
7907 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
7913 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
7916 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
7917 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
7919 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
7921 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
7922 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7930 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
7933 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
7936 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
7937 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
7938 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
7941 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
7947 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7948 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
7950 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7954 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7955 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
7956 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
7962 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
7967 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
7968 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
7969 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
7988 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
7994 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
7995 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
7998 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
7999 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
8001 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
8002 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
8011 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
8012 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
8019 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
8022 reported to implement this feature -TD
8026 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
8029 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
8033 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
8036 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
8040 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
8042 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
8043 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
8047 (report by Alain Bench).
8049 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
8050 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
8051 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
8053 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
8054 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
8055 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
8059 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
8062 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
8065 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
8069 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
8072 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
8074 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
8080 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
8084 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
8085 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
8089 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
8092 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
8093 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
8097 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
8099 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
8113 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
8116 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
8117 + suppress line-drawing
8125 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
8130 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
8148 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
8154 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
8155 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
8156 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
8157 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
8168 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
8172 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
8178 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
8180 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
8181 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
8189 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
8193 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
8196 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
8200 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
8210 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
8211 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
8218 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
8219 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
8223 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
8237 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
8240 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
8241 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
8244 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
8245 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
8246 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
8247 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
8248 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
8256 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
8261 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
8263 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
8264 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
8268 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
8274 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
8275 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
8277 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
8278 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
8281 --with-abi-version option was used.
8283 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
8284 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
8293 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
8299 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
8301 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
8303 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
8304 (report by Frank van Vugt).
8312 + update llib-l* files.
8325 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
8327 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
8328 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
8329 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
8333 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
8334 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
8336 several related cases -TD
8341 resets line-drawing.
8346 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
8349 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
8363 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
8364 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
8365 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
8366 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
8369 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
8370 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
8371 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
8372 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
8375 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
8377 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
8384 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
8387 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
8391 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
8394 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
8397 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
8398 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
8400 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
8405 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
8421 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
8424 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
8425 from vile -TD
8430 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
8433 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
8439 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
8446 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
8447 shift-, control-cursor keys.
8451 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
8454 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
8459 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
8460 + add configure option --enable-largefile
8466 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
8470 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
8472 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
8473 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
8474 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
8477 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
8482 --enable-const option.
8492 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
8493 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
8501 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
8504 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
8505 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
8507 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
8510 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
8513 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
8515 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
8518 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
8522 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
8524 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
8529 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
8532 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
8537 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
8540 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
8541 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
8546 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
8547 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
8551 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
8552 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
8558 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
8561 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
8562 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
8570 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
8571 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
8572 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
8576 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
8580 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
8591 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
8593 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
8597 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
8598 if it corresponds to the default-color.
8599 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
8602 + add a top-level tags rule.
8605 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
8607 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
8611 that are curses-specific.
8612 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
8614 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
8615 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
8619 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
8625 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
8632 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
8634 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
8637 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
8639 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
8640 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
8649 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
8650 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
8655 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
8656 forms-demo to be one character short.
8659 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
8660 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
8666 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
8678 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
8687 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
8689 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
8690 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
8693 wide-character configuration.
8709 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
8710 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
8712 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
8714 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
8721 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
8722 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
8723 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
8729 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
8730 and shift-out which seem to work.
8745 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8750 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8752 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8753 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
8756 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
8758 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
8759 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
8762 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
8765 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
8766 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
8767 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
8769 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
8780 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
8781 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
8782 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
8787 > terminfo updates -TD
8799 the -d option is set.
8810 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
8815 > terminfo updates -TD
8816 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
8818 + add function-keys to decansi
8819 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
8824 > terminfo updates -TD
8825 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
8826 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
8833 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
8843 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
8846 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
8848 > terminfo updates -TD
8850 + add emu-220
8856 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
8857 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
8859 (report/patch by Tony Li).
8861 > terminfo updates -TD
8862 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
8863 xterm-basic -TD
8864 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
8865 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
8866 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
8870 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
8873 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
8875 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
8876 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
8878 > terminfo updates -TD
8880 + add xterm-xf86-v44
8881 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
8882 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
8894 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
8900 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
8902 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
8905 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
8908 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
8910 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
8915 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
8920 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
8921 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
8923 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
8927 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
8929 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
8930 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
8931 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
8934 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
8935 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
8938 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
8941 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
8954 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
8955 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
8963 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
8965 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
8968 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
8975 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
8980 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
8991 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
8998 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
8999 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
9001 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
9003 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
9004 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
9016 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
9020 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
9022 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
9028 + update TO-DO.
9030 20040207 pre-release
9033 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
9038 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
9041 20040131 pre-release
9048 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
9051 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
9052 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
9054 20040125 pre-release
9056 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
9059 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
9063 20040124 pre-release
9066 that works better for cross-compiling.
9068 20040117 pre-release
9071 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
9074 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
9078 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
9088 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
9090 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
9102 20040110 pre-release
9112 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
9118 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
9125 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
9132 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
9133 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
9136 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
9139 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
9141 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
9148 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
9149 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
9153 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
9159 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
9160 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
9163 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
9165 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
9174 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
9186 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
9188 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
9191 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
9195 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
9202 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
9205 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
9208 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
9210 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
9213 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
9217 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
9224 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
9227 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
9233 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
9237 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
9239 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
9244 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
9253 (report by Philippe Blain).
9256 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
9258 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
9259 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
9260 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
9264 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
9266 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
9276 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
9281 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
9286 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
9289 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
9293 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
9296 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
9297 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
9300 --with-install-prefix is used.
9304 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
9314 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
9321 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
9322 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
9326 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
9329 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
9333 the size of the scroll-region.
9334 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
9337 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
9339 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
9347 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
9355 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
9356 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
9360 (rxvt-color): new alias
9361 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
9362 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
9363 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
9366 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
9368 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
9380 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
9381 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
9383 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
9384 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
9385 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
9386 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
9392 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
9393 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
9396 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
9398 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
9401 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
9405 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
9413 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
9415 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
9420 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
9424 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
9426 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
9429 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9430 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
9431 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9446 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
9447 + add tkterm entry -TD
9449 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
9450 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
9455 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
9463 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
9473 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
9475 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
9476 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
9478 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
9482 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
9485 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
9507 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
9508 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
9518 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
9522 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
9525 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
9529 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
9535 1023-byte limit.
9537 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
9539 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
9552 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
9562 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
9567 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
9573 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
9578 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
9587 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
9590 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
9592 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
9595 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
9599 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
9600 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
9601 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
9605 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
9607 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
9609 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
9614 emx-base to the latter -TD
9615 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
9623 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
9632 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
9636 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
9644 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
9665 (report by Philippe Blain).
9667 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
9670 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
9673 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
9677 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
9684 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
9686 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
9687 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
9688 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
9689 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
9694 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
9695 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
9697 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
9698 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
9699 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
9702 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
9704 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
9705 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
9712 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
9713 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
9717 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
9722 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
9724 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
9725 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
9726 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
9727 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
9728 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
9731 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
9734 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
9735 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
9755 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
9756 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
9757 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
9758 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
9759 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
9762 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
9765 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
9772 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
9774 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
9786 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
9790 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
9795 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
9796 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
9797 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
9799 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
9803 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
9807 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
9812 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
9817 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
9818 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
9824 20021005 pre-release
9825 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
9826 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
9831 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
9832 (report Floyd Davidson).
9833 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
9839 20020928 pre-release
9840 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
9845 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
9848 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
9849 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
9856 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
9864 20020921 pre-release
9876 20020914 pre-release
9877 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
9879 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
9883 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
9886 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
9888 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
9890 20020907 pre-release
9891 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
9898 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
9909 20020901 pre-release
9915 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
9916 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
9922 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
9925 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
9926 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
9929 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
9930 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
9939 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
9940 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
9943 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
9946 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
9951 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
9952 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
9956 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
9961 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
9963 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
9967 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
9970 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
9974 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
9976 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
9985 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
9988 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
9991 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
9992 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
9995 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
10000 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
10001 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
10006 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
10014 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
10017 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
10023 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
10027 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
10032 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
10033 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
10034 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10038 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
10044 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
10050 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
10052 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
10055 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
10056 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
10059 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
10067 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
10068 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
10069 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
10070 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
10071 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
10078 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
10080 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
10082 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
10086 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
10087 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
10095 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
10099 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
10100 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
10101 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
10102 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
10111 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
10114 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
10120 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
10127 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
10128 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
10129 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
10137 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
10140 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
10167 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
10199 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
10211 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
10212 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
10214 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
10216 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
10217 --with-ospeed.
10218 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
10220 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
10222 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
10229 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
10240 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10241 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
10243 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10255 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
10265 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
10268 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
10271 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
10282 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
10286 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
10291 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
10296 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
10299 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
10313 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
10315 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
10317 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
10328 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
10329 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
10335 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
10337 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
10349 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
10350 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
10351 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
10355 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
10357 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
10359 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
10366 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
10369 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
10370 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
10376 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
10378 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
10389 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
10391 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
10405 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
10408 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
10413 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
10414 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
10425 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
10426 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
10432 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
10434 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
10439 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
10445 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
10448 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
10451 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
10452 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
10456 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
10458 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
10459 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
10471 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
10473 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
10478 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
10479 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
10496 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
10497 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
10504 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
10513 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
10514 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
10522 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
10524 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
10528 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
10530 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
10533 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
10553 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10556 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
10557 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
10558 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
10559 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
10562 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
10566 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
10573 + added llib-ncursesw.
10579 header files (report by William P Setzer).
10580 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
10583 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10585 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
10586 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
10587 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10589 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10590 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
10603 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
10614 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
10621 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
10628 new wide-character structures.
10629 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
10630 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
10632 compiling for wide-character configuration.
10633 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
10639 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
10643 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
10657 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
10663 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
10670 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
10673 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
10676 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
10681 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
10682 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
10685 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
10689 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
10697 2.8.4) -TD
10699 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
10703 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
10708 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
10713 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
10723 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
10731 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
10734 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
10735 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
10740 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
10744 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
10747 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
10748 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
10751 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
10752 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
10753 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
10754 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
10756 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
10758 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
10765 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
10766 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
10770 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
10771 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
10775 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
10782 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
10784 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
10787 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
10789 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
10790 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
10795 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
10812 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
10815 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
10824 compiled-in.
10828 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
10830 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
10832 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
10839 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
10842 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
10846 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
10848 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
10858 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
10862 mouse controls -TD
10871 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
10891 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
10893 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
10897 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
10906 --disable-hashmap.
10908 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
10912 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
10918 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
10919 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
10920 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
10923 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
10931 work with 'indent') -TD
10940 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
10941 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
10943 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
10953 freebsd-bugs).
10954 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
10955 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
10957 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
10958 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
10961 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
10964 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
10965 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
10980 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
10985 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
10987 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
10993 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
11014 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
11015 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
11016 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
11019 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
11024 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
11027 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
11028 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
11030 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
11043 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
11046 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
11047 option --with-libtool.
11048 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
11050 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
11069 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
11070 to set up a 3-button mouse.
11077 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
11078 Albert Chin-A-Young).
11080 cursor report before decoding.
11081 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
11082 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
11084 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
11087 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
11091 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
11096 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
11099 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
11108 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
11110 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
11112 man-page.
11113 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
11114 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
11119 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
11122 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
11124 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
11127 terminfo.src -TD
11131 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
11135 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
11136 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
11137 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
11141 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
11149 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
11153 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
11157 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
11170 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
11174 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
11178 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
11191 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
11199 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
11204 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
11206 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
11212 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
11216 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
11218 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
11219 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
11231 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
11234 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
11235 a default program-prefix.
11236 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
11244 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
11246 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
11249 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
11259 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
11261 Chin-A-Young).
11262 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
11264 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
11268 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
11272 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
11285 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
11288 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
11296 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
11298 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
11299 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
11300 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
11303 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
11304 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
11305 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
11308 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
11314 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
11316 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
11317 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
11318 out-of-range value.
11322 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
11324 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
11325 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
11328 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
11331 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
11334 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
11339 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
11347 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
11353 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
11358 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
11372 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
11373 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
11376 20000701 pre-release
11378 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
11389 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
11394 20000624 pre-release
11397 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
11414 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
11422 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
11424 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
11426 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
11431 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
11440 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
11445 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
11446 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
11451 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
11452 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
11453 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
11455 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
11456 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
11459 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
11462 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
11463 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
11464 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
11470 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
11474 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
11478 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
11479 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
11486 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
11488 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
11490 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
11495 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
11498 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
11499 aixterm entries -TD
11502 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
11506 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
11507 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
11510 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
11514 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
11515 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
11517 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
11525 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
11533 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
11534 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
11535 bg300-rv in esr's version.
11543 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
11544 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
11557 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
11563 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
11564 such as "infocmp -Fa".
11570 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
11575 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
11576 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
11597 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
11599 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
11600 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
11602 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
11604 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
11609 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
11613 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
11628 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
11630 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
11632 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
11635 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
11665 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
11666 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
11671 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
11672 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11681 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
11687 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
11692 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
11693 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
11705 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
11708 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
11713 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
11716 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
11740 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
11741 for ncurses 5.0 -TD
11742 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
11743 terminfo entries -TD
11744 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
11745 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
11749 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
11750 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
11757 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
11758 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
11761 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
11763 tin) -TD
11768 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
11769 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
11771 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
11775 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
11780 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
11781 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
11786 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
11790 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
11794 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
11800 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
11803 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
11804 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
11805 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
11806 initc for xterm-88color.
11811 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
11814 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
11817 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
11819 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
11825 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
11826 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
11830 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
11842 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
11845 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
11849 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
11862 in CSI's -TD
11864 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
11882 4-digit year.
11900 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
11908 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
11910 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
11915 991016 pre-release
11918 991009 pre-release
11919 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
11920 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
11924 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
11925 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11927 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
11930 991002 pre-release
11939 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
11940 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
11943 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11950 990925 pre-release
11952 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
11953 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
11954 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
11958 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
11961 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
11966 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
11969 990918 pre-release
11971 <j@interface-business.de>).
11972 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
11974 that hard-links work on Unix again.
11979 990911 pre-release
11982 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
11986 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
11991 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
11994 990904 pre-release
12011 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
12014 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
12015 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
12017 990828 pre-release
12018 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
12020 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
12021 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
12026 990821 pre-release
12038 990814 pre-release
12039 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
12043 990731 pre-release
12056 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
12060 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
12065 990724 pre-release
12069 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
12070 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
12080 short-circuit expression evaluation.
12091 990710 pre-release
12095 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
12099 990703 pre-release
12102 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
12103 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
12105 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
12106 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
12113 990626 pre-release
12119 --with-rcs-ids option.
12121 990619 pre-release
12123 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
12130 990616 pre-release
12132 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
12134 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
12135 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
12136 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
12137 option to infocmp -TD
12146 990614 pre-release
12150 + change interface version-number to 1.0
12153 990612 pre-release
12163 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
12165 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
12169 990605 pre-release
12177 990516 pre-release
12184 990509 pre-release
12188 990417 pre-release
12198 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
12200 990410 pre-release
12203 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
12205 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
12206 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
12210 990403 pre-release
12221 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
12222 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
12228 990318 pre-release
12237 990316 pre-release
12246 990314 pre-release
12252 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
12256 990313 pre-release
12257 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
12258 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
12262 990307 pre-release
12263 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
12266 990306 pre-release
12267 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
12269 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
12270 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
12282 990301 pre-release
12289 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
12291 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
12303 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
12305 990220 pre-release
12309 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD
12318 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
12341 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
12352 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
12353 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
12383 --with-shlib-version option.
12388 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
12389 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
12393 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
12403 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
12404 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
12407 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
12408 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
12414 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
12421 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
12422 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
12438 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
12440 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
12441 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
12443 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
12450 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
12451 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
12461 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
12463 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
12468 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
12477 by a Debian bug report).
12478 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
12479 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
12483 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
12495 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
12500 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
12502 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
12524 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
12531 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
12539 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
12562 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
12565 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
12574 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
12575 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
12581 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
12592 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
12595 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
12601 with --srcdir option.
12602 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
12604 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
12606 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
12610 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
12614 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
12630 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
12631 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
12633 some older entries - TD
12638 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
12654 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
12655 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
12662 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
12672 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
12685 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
12690 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
12710 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
12716 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
12718 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
12720 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
12721 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
12730 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
12747 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
12759 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
12760 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
12772 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
12774 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
12776 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
12777 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
12779 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
12781 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
12783 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
12797 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
12803 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
12804 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
12814 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
12816 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
12817 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
12818 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
12825 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
12830 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
12833 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
12841 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
12849 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
12863 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
12867 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12868 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
12878 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
12883 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
12892 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
12906 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
12907 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
12910 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
12913 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
12923 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
12931 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
12932 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
12934 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
12935 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
12937 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
12945 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
12947 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
12953 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
12960 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
12962 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
12963 avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
12967 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
12968 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
12974 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
12976 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
12993 use --disable-overwrite).
12994 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
12997 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
13000 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
13002 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
13008 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
13012 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
13017 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
13037 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
13040 980228 pre-release
13041 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
13046 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
13047 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
13049 980221 pre-release
13051 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
13055 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
13062 980214 pre-release
13067 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
13069 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
13077 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
13079 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
13095 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
13102 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
13104 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
13105 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
13107 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
13111 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
13116 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
13117 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
13119 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
13133 + add configure-test for isascii
13134 + add configure-test for -lm library.
13153 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
13154 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
13160 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
13162 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
13167 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
13169 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
13181 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
13184 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
13199 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
13209 cross-platform compatibility.
13211 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
13215 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
13234 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
13235 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
13237 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
13239 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
13241 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
13254 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
13264 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
13266 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
13268 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
13274 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
13276 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
13288 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
13289 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
13296 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
13297 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
13303 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
13309 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
13313 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
13323 in HP-UX terminfo.
13328 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
13331 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
13335 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
13336 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
13348 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
13350 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
13352 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
13357 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
13358 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
13372 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
13376 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
13379 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
13380 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
13397 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
13398 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
13402 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
13408 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
13418 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
13420 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
13421 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
13429 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
13433 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
13441 ripped-off lines.
13449 click-interval without modifying it.
13453 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
13455 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
13457 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
13458 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
13469 + typo in configure --help.
13471 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
13472 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
13473 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
13482 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
13489 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
13498 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
13522 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
13534 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
13541 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
13542 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
13545 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
13570 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
13581 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
13590 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
13603 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
13611 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
13612 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
13624 case-insensitiva comparison routine.
13636 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
13658 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
13659 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
13667 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
13668 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
13676 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
13690 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
13694 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
13701 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
13703 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
13707 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
13717 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
13722 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
13723 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
13736 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
13741 line-breakout optimization
13745 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
13752 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
13771 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
13773 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
13776 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
13777 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
13788 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
13795 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
13803 package is built with an install-prefix.
13805 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
13807 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
13809 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
13815 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
13819 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
13820 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
13821 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
13832 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
13836 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
13839 configuration of wide-characters.
13849 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
13851 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
13861 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
13869 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
13871 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
13873 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
13877 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
13882 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
13885 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
13886 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
13887 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
13900 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
13906 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
13907 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
13927 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
13935 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
13940 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
13948 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
13949 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
13952 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
13960 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
13966 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
13972 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
13974 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
13980 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
13982 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
13986 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
13990 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
13991 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
13996 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
14006 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
14012 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
14019 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
14023 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
14024 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
14027 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
14039 + add description of xterm-16color.
14040 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
14043 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
14045 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
14064 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
14066 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
14067 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
14069 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
14072 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
14076 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
14080 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
14101 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
14106 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
14107 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
14112 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
14114 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
14118 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
14130 970505 4.1 pre-release
14135 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
14136 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
14139 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
14145 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
14152 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
14160 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
14194 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
14203 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
14206 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
14207 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
14225 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
14227 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
14231 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
14236 --enable/--with values.
14237 + add configure option --enable-big-core
14240 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
14242 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
14245 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
14246 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
14248 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
14255 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
14256 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
14257 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
14270 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
14284 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
14286 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
14291 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
14294 a pointer-increment.
14299 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
14302 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
14305 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
14309 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
14311 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
14313 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
14314 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
14318 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
14328 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
14329 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
14330 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
14331 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
14335 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
14345 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
14346 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
14354 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
14355 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
14358 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
14359 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
14379 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
14381 that machine - T.Dickey.
14383 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
14400 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
14401 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
14403 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
14407 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
14411 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
14429 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
14432 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
14439 prevented patch from working properly -TD
14451 961221 - snapshot
14455 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
14460 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
14461 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
14466 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
14471 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
14478 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
14479 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
14482 961214 - snapshot
14486 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
14489 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
14491 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
14497 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
14502 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
14503 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
14504 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
14507 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
14509 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
14518 961207 - snapshot
14522 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
14528 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
14541 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
14544 -DTRACE).
14561 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
14570 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
14573 961116 - snapshot
14581 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
14588 961109 - snapshot
14589 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
14591 a spurious clear-screen.
14600 961102 - snapshot
14608 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
14612 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
14615 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
14619 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
14622 961026 - snapshot
14624 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
14627 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
14630 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
14636 in the top-level command-parser.
14642 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
14644 961019 - snapshot
14645 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
14647 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
14652 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
14659 the pointer was -1.
14661 961005 - snapshot
14663 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
14664 lower-right corner.
14666 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
14668 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
14669 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
14674 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
14684 960928 - snapshot
14694 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
14696 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
14698 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
14700 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
14701 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
14706 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
14708 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
14710 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
14711 Michael Elkins) - untested
14715 + re-add _nc_hash_map
14722 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
14724 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
14726 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
14728 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
14733 960914 - snapshot
14734 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
14738 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
14741 either ;-)
14747 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
14748 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14752 960907 - snapshot
14757 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
14763 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
14765 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
14766 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
14770 960831 - snapshot
14772 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
14776 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
14780 960824 - snapshot
14781 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
14782 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
14786 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
14788 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
14791 960817 - snapshot
14792 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
14793 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
14801 960810 - snapshot
14803 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
14804 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
14813 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
14816 960803 - snapshot
14832 960727 - snapshot
14840 960720 - snapshot
14841 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
14854 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
14855 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
14857 960713 - snapshot
14860 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
14863 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
14872 rather than constant (report by mib).
14873 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
14881 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
14884 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
14887 960706 - snapshot
14893 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
14896 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
14897 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
14898 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
14900 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
14901 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
14904 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
14905 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
14908 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
14910 960629 - snapshot
14912 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
14914 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
14915 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
14922 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
14933 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
14935 960622 - snapshot
14940 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
14941 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
14944 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
14952 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
14962 960615 - snapshot
14967 with a shared-library configuration.
14970 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
14971 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
14977 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
14982 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
14988 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
14991 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
14993 960601 - snapshot
14994 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
14996 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
15000 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
15003 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
15005 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
15006 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
15007 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
15009 960526 - snapshot
15010 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
15013 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
15014 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
15025 960518 - snapshot
15032 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
15033 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
15035 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
15037 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
15040 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
15041 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
15045 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
15049 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
15051 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
15055 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
15074 960504 - snapshot
15075 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
15077 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
15078 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
15079 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
15086 960428 - snapshot
15089 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
15092 960426 - snapshot
15099 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
15100 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
15102 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
15104 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
15106 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
15112 960418 - snapshot
15116 K&R-style substitution)
15119 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
15124 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
15125 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
15127 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
15129 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
15136 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
15137 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
15138 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
15139 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
15140 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
15142 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
15145 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
15148 copy-changed-lines behavior.
15150 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
15151 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
15154 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
15158 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
15165 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
15166 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
15169 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
15171 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
15172 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
15173 * support infocmp -RBSD.
15181 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
15184 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
15190 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
15192 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
15198 * added -h option to toe(1).
15199 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
15200 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
15201 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
15204 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
15217 * infocmp -T option added.
15220 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
15224 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
15228 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
15232 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
15234 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
15235 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
15239 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
15242 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
15246 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
15251 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
15258 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
15265 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
15271 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
15274 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
15277 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
15282 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
15284 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
15285 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
15286 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
15289 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
15290 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
15294 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
15300 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
15301 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
15303 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
15320 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
15326 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
15335 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
15337 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
15347 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
15365 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
15369 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
15372 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
15373 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
15388 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
15405 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
15407 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
15429 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
15434 bottom-right corner.
15453 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
15457 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
15480 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
15485 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
15492 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
15501 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
15521 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
15526 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
15532 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
15537 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
15540 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
15553 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
15578 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
15584 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
15590 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
15595 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
15596 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
15597 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
15606 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
15614 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
15628 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
15630 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
15641 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
15650 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
15656 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
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