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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey -- +-- Copyright 2018-2024,2025 Thomas E. Dickey -- -- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4114 2024/04/27 18:00:35 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4390 2025/12/30 20:31:07 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,575 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +20251230 6.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update announcement + + corrected an ifdef needed for mouse support in MinGW/Windows + + eliminate remaining duplicate code between MinGW/Windows drivers + +20251227 + + make win32_curses.h obsolete in favor of nc_win32.h + + modify MinGW32 configuration to account for its use of Windows-style + pathnames in filesystem checks. + + replace --enable-exp-win32 option with --enable-named-pipes + +20251220 + > in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + + eliminate EXP_WIN32_DRIVER with USE_NAMED_PIPES + + change MS_TERMINAL to DEFAULT_TERM_VAR + +20251213 + + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + + add a null-pointer check in tic -c option. + + add a limit-check in infocmp -i option (report/example by Yixuan Cao). + +20251206 + + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + +20251129 + + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + +20251123 + + revert change using NCURSES_SBOOL in tic.h which interfered with + sign-extension in tigetflag (Debian #1121191, cf: 20251101). + +20251122 + + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + + correct expression for TINFO_LIB variable in misc/ncurses-config.in + (Debian #1121208, cf: 20251004). + +20251115 + + check for special case of wcrtomb() converting a single byte code to + a different single byte code, which glibc does for code 160 in the + KOI8-R encoding (report by Yury V Zaytsev). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + amend recent changes to mouse handling to avoid a case which caused + a loop in wgetch until additional input is provided (htop #1769, + cf: 20250913). + +20251101 + + adjust generated terminfo.5 to omit tbl "x" column modifier if that + is unsupported, i.e., with old nroff/tbl (adapted from patch by + Branden Robinson). + + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + +20251025 + + amend locale-portability fix in tty_update.c (MidnightCommander #4799, + cf: 20240203). + + add testing utility report_ctype + + update configure macros, improving check for $host_os + + correct a recent change to curs_termino.3x, along with formatting + fixes for manpages. + + corrected note about box() in curs_border.3x (patch by Jakub Horky, + cf: 20250201). + +20251018 + + add check for build-time utilities, in case cross-compiling is setup + with an invalid $BUILD_CC (prompted by discussion with Stas Sergeev). + + modify configure-script and makefiles to make it easier to override + the "--with-install-prefix" default with environment variable + (report by Stas Sergeev). + +20251010 + + fix stray "\" in curs_extend.3x, regen html manpages. + + regen html manpages with man2html 1.42, fixing a few cases where + headers were not linked (report by Branden Robinson). + +20251004 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + + improve configure check for "install". + +20250927 + + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + +20250920 + + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + + add configure check for <sys/fsuid.h>, build-fix for flatpacks + (report by Stas Sergeev). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20250913 + + update ncurses-howto. + + modify MKfallback.sh to eliminate TERMINFO environment variable. + + improve checks in run_tic.sh script, change some variable names to + reduce packager confusion (report by Stas Sergeev). + + disallow configure options which apply only to multiuser systems, to + improve ports to single-user systems such as Haiku (report by Stas + Sergeev). + + update ncurses/wcwidth.c, for MinGW ports, from xterm. + + correct _nc_to_char() for the case when wctob() is not found by + configure script (report/patch by Benno Schulenberg). + > patches by Robin Haberkorn + + modify handle_wheel case 2 to ignore the event as in case 1 for + mouse version 1, since that corresponds to a button 6 or 7 event + which is not supported with ABI 6. + + use separate read/write pointers in the mouse event queue to work + with too-close events for the click-detection to work reliably, + and further improve that in case mouseinterval(0) is used to + suppress click-detection. + +20250830 + + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port. + + build-fix for experimental Windows configuration (report by Kirill + Makurin). + + improve pattern used for configure --with-xterm-kbs option. + +20250823 + + improve style of MKterminfo.sh script (patches by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + remove redundant definition of ConsoleInfo. + + change scope of TTY, GET_TTY and SET_TTY to ncurses-internals + +20250816 + + remove redundant reference to compiler in libtool configuration of + mk-1st.awk (report by Lorinczy Zsigmond). + + build-fixes for --enable-exp-win32 configuration + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20250809 + + add configure check for Win32 named pipes feature, using that to make + nc_mingw.h obsolete in favor of nc_win32.h + + amend limit used in alloc_pair, by applying an adjustment for default + colors only when the maximum number of color pairs is greater than + the maximum number of colors (report by "Ingvix"). + +20250802 + + fixes for reading Unicode characters in MinGW/Windows port (report by + Axel Reinhold). + +20250726 + + modify configure script cases for $host_os, to accommodate 64-bit + big-endian POWER linux with glibc (patch by Cosima Neidahl). + + add warning to configure script to address conflict between the + --enable-lp64 option and the options for overriding the types used + for chtype and mmask_t. + +20250720 + + further improve readability of header-files + + add a consistency-check for termio(s)/tty headers, to help with + cross-compiles (report by Stas Sergeev). + + remove some unused configure-macros + + add xterm+keypad to pccon+base -TD + + trim trailing blanks from a few files (report by Stas Sergeev). + +20250712 + + improve readability of term.h + + modify recursive make rules to avoid interference with GNU make's + "-j" option (report by Stas Sergeev). + +20250705 + + when installing the terminfo database, check if symbolic links are + supported before attemping to link lib/terminfo from share/terminfo + (report by Kirill Makurin). + + modify configure check for MAKEFLAGS/MFLAGS to ignore existing value + of these environment variables (report by Stas Sergeev). + + reserve -c/-l options in test/*.c for command/logging like vttest. + + add options to test/worm.c for benchmarking (Nibby Nebbulous) + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + improve readability of header-files (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20250628 + + fix a few compiler-warnings. + + simplify include for wchar.h in Windows port by removing the platform + ifdef's (report by Kirill Makurin). + + regen Ada95/configure (report by Sven Joachim). + +20250621 + + revise loop in wins_nwstr, to ensure that non-spacing characters are + combined with the base spacing character (report by Karl Knechtel). + + fixes for port using clang-cl or cl MSVC (report by Kirill Makurin). + + improve test-packages: + + convert debian*/copyright to DEP-5 format. + + modify ".spec" test-files to work around timestamp-clamping in + recent Fedora releases. + +20250614 + + reduce lintian warnings for test-packages. + + clean up some shellcheck warnings + + improve test/configure checks for X libraries, reducing duplicates + + fix some typos/errata in license text, to help with scripted checks + +20250531 + + improve logic in misc/run_tic.in for constructing symbolic link + when $DESTDIR is set. + +20250524 + + correct option-name used in configure script, which resulted in size + change for cchar_t (cf: 20250517). + +20250517 + + initial changes for some ABI 7 features: + + disable wgetch-events + + add feature for extending mouse-buttons + + add feature for extending direct-color support + + use bracketed+paste in nsterm, rlogin-color, screen, terminology -TD + +20250510 + + add rv/xr codes for domterm, mintty, mlterm -TD + + add xr code for putty -TD + + update teraterm to 5.0 -TD + + add rlogin-color -TD + +20250503 + + update/correct some of the rv/xr strings, checked with tack -TD + + use ansi+rca in sclp -TD + + use vt220+pcedit in sclp (Werner Fink) + + move some building blocks from illumos to sun-color, based on + illumos source-history -TD + + improve use-clauses: ansi+cup, ansi+idl1, ansi+rca, ansi+rca2, + ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul -TD + + add ecma+standout, ecma+underline -TD + + add rv code for alacritty -TD + + add rv/xr codes for contour, ghostty, iterm2, kitty, konsole, + vscode, vte, wezterm -TD + +20250426 + + expand note on extensions in curs_addch.3x + + add illumos, sun-16color, sun-256color, sun-direct -TD + + add wyse+cvis -TD + +20250419 + + add note on scrolling and lower-right corner to waddch and wadd_wch + manual pages. + +20250412 + + add pangoterm -TD + + add kf1 to kf5 to sclp (report by Werner Fink) + + add vt100+pf1-pf4 -TD + +20250405 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + improve infocmp -E/-e fallback feature (report by Ville Rissanen): + + prefix names with "ti_" if they begin with a digit, e.g., 9term + + escape backslashes and double-quotes in description fields + + modify infocmp -E/-e fallback feature to reduce stricter compiler + warnings for the extended capability data. + + add sclp -TD + + add op to vt525 -TD + + update contour -TD + +20250329 + + add XM/xm to ms-terminal, to enable mouse with experimental Windows + driver -TD + + add -x option to infocmp in MKfallback.sh + + improve experimental Windows driver by restoring the scroll buffer + and console mode, e.g., when reset_prog_mode or endwin is called + (patch by Daniel Starke). + + add a buffer-limit check in postprocess_termcap (report/testcase by + Yifan Zhang). + +20250322 + + add a null pointer check in mouse-initialization, for the + experimental Windows driver (patch by Daniel Starke). + + improve makefile dependency in Ada95/src + + add note in user_caps.5 addressing a quibble about dates. + +20250315 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20250308 + + remove test in wgetch which applied notimeout to the initial read + of a character (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + fix a few compiler-warnings in MinGW port. + +20250301 + + add color to vt525 (Branden Robinson) + + add vt520-w and vt525-w (Branden Robinson) + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + improve configurability of alloca() as used in Windows ports. + + fix some typos in manpages. + + modify configure script checks for stdbool.h to fix build with older + gcc version. + +20250222 + + modify treatment of "n" parameter for waddnstr, waddnwstr, and + wins_nwstr to return OK when "n" is zero, for consistency with other + implementations (report by Benjamin Barenblat, cf: 20231118). + + formatting improvements for terminfo.5 (Debian #1096164). + +20250216 + + add limit-checks in alloc_entry.c and alloc_ttype.c to avoid indexing + errors when using infocmp to compare all capabilities when processing + a malformed terminfo binary which has a valid header (testcase by + "Ekkosun"). + +20250215 + + add gzip option for suppressing filename/timestamp information to an + overlooked case (cf: 20240330). + + correct spelling errors found with codespell. + + fix some typos in manpages (report by Sven Joachim) + + amend change to lib_set_term.c to work with thread configuration + (report by Rajeev Pillai, cf: 20250208). + +20250208 + + change etip.h.in to include either/both of <new> and <exception>, + needed for another old BSD. + + update st (report by Alexander Kashpir) -TD + + add note for ghostty 1.1.0 -TD + + fix a few issues found with coverity. + +20250201 + + add <new> to the possible headers declaring the C++ std::bad_alloc + (report by Carl Hansen). + + modify check for stdbool.h to be more conservative in case the + headers are used with a compiler other than that which was used to + configure (Redhat #2342514). + + improve MKlib_gen.sh handling of "bool" type, for building link_test + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + +20250125 + + improve error-handling in c++ binding (report by Mingjie Shen). + + strict compiler-warning fixes for upcoming gcc15 + +20250118 + + improve pattern used for configure --with-xterm-kbs option (report by + Mingyu Wang) + + update configure macros, from work on cdk and dialog. + + change a parameter name in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for consistency (patch + by "WHR"). + > patches by Branden Robinson: + + improve formatting/style of manpages + + change winwstr() to a generated function, using the macro definition, + moving its handling of negative length parameter into winnwstr(). + + correct actual-function name in a few trace calls. + +20250111 + + add check for infinite loop in tic's use-resolution. + + increase limit on use-clauses from 32 to 40, warn but allow entries + which exceed the old limit. + + add some null-pointer checks after mallocs in test-programs. + +20250104 + + modify tput to warn about capabilities which expect parameters where + none are given; also repair the feature where multiple capabilities + can be handled on a single line. + + cleanup use-clauses -TD + + add linux+lockeys, xterm+r5+lockeys, xterm+r5+fkeys -TD + + add vt220+ufkeys, vt220+sfkeys + + revert man/manlinks.sed change, which loses aliases (cf: 20241228). + + modify MKlib_gen.c to allow for Solaris's definition of NULL as 0L + +20241228 + + correct conditional-compile for a case when the C compiler does not + have a bool type. + + add ghostty -TD + > patches by Branden Robinson: + + add comments to generated term.h to hint the configure options used + + use same subdir-convention for term.h, in configure script + + improve formatting/style of manpages + +20241221 + + modify ncurses/tinfo/MKfallback.sh to work with MacOS sed, which + lacks BSD-style \< and \> + + trim padding from sgr expression used in trim_sgr0, to avoid copying + the padding into the resulting sgr0 (report by Rajeev Pillai). + + strict compiler-warning fixes for upcoming gcc15 + +20241214 + + avoid redefining bool in curses.h if the platform already supports + that type (cf: 20241123). + + move include <curses.h> from etip.h.in to cursesw.h, to work around + breakage in Apple's port of ncurses. + + strict compiler-warning fixes for upcoming gcc15 + +20241207 + + strict compiler-warning fixes for upcoming gcc15 + +20241130 + + improve configure check for lint program. + + adjust options in test-programs to allow for consistent use of -c/-l + for command/logging. + + modify win_driver.c for MinGW to handle shift-tab and control-tab as + back-tab (report by Axel Reinhold) + +20241123 + + remove dependency on stdbool.h from configure script check for type + of bool when C++ binding is omitted (report by Sam James). + + compiler-warning fixes + +20241109 + + work around musl header ifdef's (report by Urs Jansen, cf: Gentoo + #920266). + + improve error-reporting in write_entry.c (report by Changqing Li). + + remove unused #include from DJGPP configuration (report by Stas + Sergeev). + + workaround/fix issues from clang-analyze + +20241102 + + remove djgpp-specific initialization to binary mode (report/patch by + Stas Sergeev). + + add extended-keys for djgpp 2.05 -TD + +20241026 + + update ms-terminal -TD + + add ms-terminal-direct -TD + + correct dimensions in test/popup_msg.c, fixing an overrun (patch by + Stas Sergeev, cf: 20211219). + +20241019 + + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck. + + build-fixes for DJGPP configuration (patches by Stas Sergeev) + +20241006 + + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck. + + use xterm+alt+title in wezterm -TD + +20240928 + + improve error-message from infocmp when a terminal entry cannot be + opened (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve filtering of -L options in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in and in + misc/ncurses-config.in + + add check in wresize() for out-of-range dimensions (report by Peter + Bierma). + +20240922 + + add a few null-pointer checks in ncurses + + improve test-driver in ncurses/link_test.c + + restore background character in manpages as described in X/Open + Curses section 3.3.6, and add option "-c" to test programs to + illustrate a non-blank character in the window background property. + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify ncurses*-config to add -I option in --cflag where needed for + --disable-overwrite to match ".pc" files. + + disallow directories and block/character devices in safe-open. + + amend scr_restore() and scr_init() to remove the target window only + after validating the source window which will replace the target + (report by Zixi Liu). + +20240914 + + modify _nc_flush() to also flush stderr to help the flash capability + to work in bash (patch by Harm te Hennepe, cf: 20201128) + + omit -g and -fXXX flags from CFLAGS in misc/ncurses-config.in + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + improve examples in NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html + + update comments in terminfo.src -TD + +20240831 + + build-fix for a case in msys2 where gettimeofday() was available but + the fallback was partly configured. + > patch by Rafael Kitover: + + separate the _NC_WINDOWS platform macro into _NC_WINDOWS_NATIVE, + for MinGW and other native Win32 support, and _NC_WINDOWS, to make + some Win32 features available under the Cygwin runtime, in this case + the term-driver. + + make some minor adjustments to allow + ./configure --enable-term-driver + to also work on Cygwin platforms such as Cygwin and MSYS2. + +20240824 + + modify infocmp and tabs to use actual name in usage and header. + + modify test/demo_keyok.c to accept ^Q for quit, for consistency. + +20240817 + + review/update foot for 1.18.1 -TD + + add a note about DomTerm 3.2.0 -TD + + add new glob-expressions variables to list in config.status script + (patch by Werner Fink). + + add --enable-install-prefix to modify behavior of $DESTDIR to merge + or replace the value set by --prefix (adapted from suggestion by + Eli Zaretskii). + +20240810 + + modify misc/Makefile.in and misc/run_tic.in so that $DESTDIR is set + and used only in the makefile. + + modify CF_WITH_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to allow for pkg-config using + DOS/Windows pathname syntax (report by Eli Zaretskii). + + improve glob-expressions in configure script + + remove unused Get_Menu_Screen() macro from menu.priv.h + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20240727 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck. + + modify wattron/wattroff calls in form/m_post.c to call wattr_on and + wattr_off to omit cast used in the former for X/Open compatibility + (patch by Bill Gray). + + modify wezterm, omitting its broken left/right margin feature (report + by Thayne McCombs) -TD + +20240720 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + modify configure script and misc/Makefile to accept glob expressions + that include Windows/DOS drive-letters (report by Eli Zaretskii). + + fix misspelled ifdef and correct return-value of _nc_mingw_tcflush in + win_driver.c (report/patch by Eli Zaretskii). + +20240713 + + modify misc/ncurses-config.in, improved match with pkg-config output. + +20240706 + + update configure script to use macro changes from dialog. + + modify CF_NCURSES_PTHREADS to avoid equating package and library + names. + +20240629 + + build-fix for ncurses-examples with newer PDCurses, which no longer + has stubs for unimplemented features. + + add help-popup for test_instr.c, test_inwstr.c + + modify checks in delwin to avoid checking if the window is a pad + until first checking if it is still on the active window-list + (cf: 20211115). + + improve -t option of test/gdc.c, allowing hours only, or hours and + minutes only. + +20240622 + + improve test/gdc.c (patch by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + adjust naming of mingw *-config scripts to match the pkg-config names + + widen pattern in pc/*-config scripts to disallow more linker options + + add --cflags-only-I and --cflags-only-other options to + misc/ncurses-config.in + + revert change to CF_BUILD_CC macro (report by Vassili Courzakis, + cf: 20240518). + +20240615 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + review/update modules files. + + improve install-rules in Ada95 makefiles (report by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages in test-directory. + +20240608 + + change winwstr to return wide character count instead of OK (patch + by Branden Robinson). + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + rename testing dpkg's for ncurses6 to resolve a naming conflict with + Debian's ncurses packages. + +20240601 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + change Ada95/configure to use --with-screen option rather than + --enable-widec, to provide more choices of underlying curses library + +20240525 + + build-fix for configure option --disable-ext-funcs + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + review/update iTerm2 for 3.5.0 -TD + +20240519 + + update Ada95/configure to match change for -DTRACE + + revert change to include/ncurses_defs, which caused build failure if + tracing was not enabled (report by Branden Robinson). + +20240518 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + move makefile's -DTRACE into include/ncurses_cfg.h, to simplify use + of CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS. + + improve check for clock_gettime(), from xterm. + + modify configure script to work around broken gnatgcc script found in + gcc-13 builds. + +20240511 + + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). + + limit value from ESCDELAY environment variable to 30 seconds, like + other delay limits. + + limit values from LINES and COLUMNS environment variables to 512 + (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20240504 + + update ncurses/wcwidth.c, for MinGW ports, from xterm. + + trim obsolete comment about tack from INSTALL. + 20240427 6.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + update announcement + fixes/corrections for manpages (patches by Branden Robinson). @@ -223,7 +792,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek, OpenSUSE #1201384, Debian #60377). + build-fixes for --with-caps variations. - + correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL. + + correct a couple of section references in INSTALL. 20231028 + move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as @@ -319,7 +888,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson). 20230729 - + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr(). + + improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_nwstr(). + modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2 shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin). + add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in @@ -4262,7 +4831,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20140621 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz). - + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for + + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALL file, as part of workarounds for upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option. + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by @@ -10577,7 +11146,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich). + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with header files (report by William P Setzer). - + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer). + + fix typos in several man pages (patch by William P Setzer). + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young). @@ -10630,7 +11199,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>). + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if compiling for wide-character configuration. - + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven + + make addnwstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege). 20010630 @@ -11109,7 +11678,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young). + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's - man-page. + man page. + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>). @@ -11336,7 +11905,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + document configure options in INSTALL. - + add man-page for ncurses trace functions. + + add man page for ncurses trace functions. + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il(). @@ -12465,7 +13034,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. running screen built with ncurses. + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>). - + correct several font specification typos in man-pages. + + correct several font specification typos in man pages. 981220 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden). @@ -12814,7 +13383,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>). - + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which + + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man page which says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles, patch by Alexander V Lukyanov). @@ -12827,7 +13396,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang). 980613 - + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509) + + update man page for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509) + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters to be written to large screens. + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the @@ -13009,12 +13578,12 @@ it is not possible to add this information. option (patch by Jesse Thilo). + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>). - + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH + + modify some man pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman <itz@rahul.net>). + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR). > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer: - + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages. + + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man pages. + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than attr_t. + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions @@ -13164,7 +13733,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. implemented. + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format from parameters. - + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page + + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man page synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>). + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov). @@ -13251,7 +13820,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + resynchronizes the generated html manpages 971213 - + additional fixes for man-pages section-references + + additional fixes for man pages' section references + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir to tic, etc. + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not @@ -13263,7 +13832,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception. + add configure check for 'tack'. - + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install, + + implement script for renaming section references in man page install, for Debian configuration. + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by Daniel Weaver). @@ -14398,9 +14967,9 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 970104 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx. - + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported + + modify several man pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported by Jesse Thilo). - + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo + + correct font codes in some man pages (patch by Jesse Thilo <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>) + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson). @@ -14666,7 +15235,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests). + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6. - + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with + + correct quoting in configure that made man pages installed with $datadir instead of actual terminfo path. + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5 @@ -14878,7 +15447,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 960707 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing applications, e.g., 'less 290'). - + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages + + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man pages preformatted. + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops). + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by @@ -14890,7 +15459,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. descriptions. + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path (reported by Zeyd). - + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files + + modify man page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files (reported by David MacKenzie). + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses @@ -14991,7 +15560,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito). 960601 - snapshot - + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian. + + auto-configure man page compression format and renames for Debian. + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros). + re-order curses.priv.h for lint. + added rules for lintlib, lint |