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diff --git a/app/xterm/xterm.log.html b/app/xterm/xterm.log.html index b6f9b005a..0e10ac1b0 100644 --- a/app/xterm/xterm.log.html +++ b/app/xterm/xterm.log.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <!-- ***************************************************************************** - * Copyright 1996-2005,2006 by Thomas E. Dickey * + * Copyright 1996-2007,2008 by Thomas E. Dickey * * All Rights Reserved. * * * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * @@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ * ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF * * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. * ***************************************************************************** - $XTermId: xterm.log.html,v 1.460 2006/08/03 23:58:30 tom Exp $ - $XFree86: xc/programs/xterm/xterm.log.html,v 1.151 2006/06/20 00:42:38 dickey Exp $ + $XTermId: xterm.log.html,v 1.664 2008/03/02 23:32:51 tom Exp $ --> <HTML> <HEAD> @@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ </HEAD> <BODY> <HR> -Copyright 1997-2005,2006 by <A +Copyright © 1997-2007,2008 by <A HREF="mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net">Thomas E. Dickey</A> <HR> <H1>Contents</H1> @@ -46,6 +45,24 @@ Most of these are summarized in the XFree86 CHANGELOG is the latest version of this file. <UL> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_234">Patch #234 - 2008-03/02</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_233">Patch #233 - 2008/02/24</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_232">Patch #232 - 2008/01/30</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_231">Patch #231 - 2008/01/05</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_230">Patch #230 - 2007/12/31</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_229">Patch #229 - 2007/8/12</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_228">Patch #228 - 2007/7/22</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_227">Patch #227 - 2007/6/27</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_226">Patch #226 - 2007/6/17</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_225">Patch #225 - 2007/3/24</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_224">Patch #224 - 2007/2/11</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_223">Patch #223 - 2006/11/30</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_222">Patch #222 - 2006/10/17</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_221">Patch #221 - 2006/10/1</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_220">Patch #220 - 2006/9/10</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_219">Patch #219 - 2006/9/4</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_218">Patch #218 - 2006/8/27</A> +<LI><A HREF="#xterm_217">Patch #217 - 2006/8/20</A> <LI><A HREF="#xterm_216">Patch #216 - 2006/8/3</A> <LI><A HREF="#xterm_215">Patch #215 - 2006/6/19 - XFree86 4.6.99.2</A> <LI><A HREF="#xterm_214">Patch #214 - 2006/6/18 - XFree86 4.6.99.2</A> @@ -265,6 +282,767 @@ is the latest version of this file. <LI><A HREF="#xterm_01">Patch #1 - 1996/1/6</A> </UL> +<H1><A NAME="xterm_234">Patch #234 - 2008-03/02</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>modify <code>sinstall.sh</code> to use POSIX locale to + bypass GNU ls changes to date-format. + + <li>improved/refined changes for closing bitmap font (patch by + Andrea Odetti). + + <li>improve resize computation for situations where the negotiation + fails, by invoking the xterm widget's core-class resize method + (Debian #365602, patch by Jim Paris). + + <li>restore initialization of terminal's <code>VMIN</code> and + <code>VTIME</code> settings, + from <a href="#xterm_232">patch #232</a> changes + (patch by Matthieu Herrb). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_233">Patch #233 - 2008/02/24</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>add configure check for <code>ttydefaults.h</code>, include if + needed, e.g., for systems where defining + <code>_POSIX_C_SOURCE</code>, etc., + prevents it from being included via + <code>termios.h</code> (prompted by comments by Robert Delius Royar + and Jeremy Huddleston). + + <li>patches from Alan Coopersmith. These correspond + to bug-ids on bugs.opensolaris.org + <dl> + <dt>4029911 + <dd>fix a typo in manpage + <dt>4045962 + <dd>xterm doesn't properly set ut_syslen + <dt>4192572 + <dd>left-left-right misinterpreted as triple click + </dl> + + <li>minor optimization to tab-initialization (patch by + Németh Márton). + + <li>fix a case where an incorrect font was freed during initialization + from <a href="#xterm_232">patch #232</a> changes (patch by + Andrea Odetti). + + <li>improve comparison used in <code>SameFont</code> function for + GC-caching (Julien Cristau). + + <li>correct macro name used for default <code>CKILL</code> definition + to work with Mac OS X (report by Jeremy Huddleston). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_232">Patch #232 - 2008/01/30</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>corrected logic in a font-cache used for reverse-video (Debian + #404079). + + <li>add control sequence to alter <code>pointerMode</code> at runtime. + + <li>add limit-checks for rectangle operation parameters (report by + Martin Pirker). + + <li>modify <code>minstall.sh</code> to suppress <code>$MANPAGER</code> + and <code>$PAGER</code> environment variables, which may interfere + with redirecting output of <code>man</code> to a shell variable + (report/patch by Zdenek Sekera). + + <li>do not try to hide mouse pointer in the tek4014 window, fixes + broken "-t" option at startup from + <a href="#xterm_230">patch #230</a> changes + (report by Robert K. Nelson). + + <li>correct datatype used when drawing tek4014 data using xterm + compiled for wide-characters, on big-endian machines (reports + by Jeremy Huddleston, Harald Hanche-Olsen, Martin Costabel, Merle + Reinhart). + + <li>modify to cache the font-names along with the bitmap font data, + to improve comparison of fonts. + + <li>modify to allow building with configure options + <code>--disable-ansi-color</code> and + <code>--disable-leaks</code> (Debian #459817, report/patch by Németh Márton). + + <li>modify to allow building with configure options + <code>--enable-wide-chars</code> and + <code>--disable-c1-print</code> (Debian #459816, report/patch by Németh Márton). + + <li>add <code>pointerMode</code> resource to control whether and + when the pointer cursor is hidden as the user types. + + <li>simplify initialization of ttyMode- and related characters using + a table. + + <li>modify initialization-logic for stty values that correspond to + ltchars structure and the BSD TIOCSLTC ioctl (susp, dsusp, rprnt + flush, werase, lnext). These were reset to constants for both + termios and legacy interfaces immediately after asking the system + for the existing values since X11R6.1, rather than using them to + provide inherited values. While the legacy interface has some + constraints, e.g., on HPUX, the POSIX or termios interface should + not. Your shell may reset these anyway + (prompted by patch by Ed Schouten). + + <li>improve logic for hiding/displaying pointer-cursor (report by + Mark Brukhartz). + + <li>add limit-checks to tabs.c, increase maximum column for setting + tab-stops from 320 to 1024 (report by Németh Márton). + + <li>correct length, i.e., number of types of selection targets, + computed by <code>ConvertSelection()</code> when not handling + wide characters for the <code>XA_TARGETS()</code> case. + This leaves an extra Atom on the end of the list which is + not handled by + <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6322854">Java applications</a>. + The problem was introduced in <a href="#xterm_151">patch #151</a> + (report by David Wood). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_231">Patch #231 - 2008/01/05</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>undo change to <code>getXtermCell()</code> from patch #230 + using <code>PACK_PAIR</code> macro (Debian #459014, analysis by + Caetano Jimenez Carezzato). + + <li>minor documentation fixes (patch by Slava Semushin) + + <li>add makefile actions to install KOI8RXTerm app-defaults file + (patch by Julien Cristau). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_230">Patch #230 - 2007/12/31</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>add <code>quietGrab</code> resource, which when true, suppresses + cursor repainting when <code>NotifyGrab</code> and + <code>NotifyUngrab</code> event types are received during + change of focus (request by Nicolas George). + + <li>do not treat Unicode BIDI control characters as combining + characters (Debian #457634). + + <li>add <code>koi8rxterm</code>, from Debian. + + <li>add manpage for <code>uxterm</code>, from Debian (Ubuntu #128136, + Debian #438645) + + <li>remove ".xpm" suffixes from Icon filenames in desktop files since + it confuses some lookups following the + <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html">Icon Theme Specification</a> + (report by Slava Semushin) + + <li>correct width-calculation used for adjusting proportional fonts, + to work with wide-characters (Debian #441354). + + <li>fixes/improvements for double-size characters: + <ul> + <li>correct old clipping calculation which used total height of + glyphs where ascent was needed. + + <li>if bold font is unavailable, fall back to normal font + + <li>adjust to "work" with Xft (which does not support double-width + single-height characters). + + <li>restore reset of doublesize for a line when it is cleared, + broken in <a href="#xterm-228">patch #228</a>. + </ul> + + <li>modify logic for <code>forceBoxChars</code> resource when using + TrueType fonts to be consistent with bitmap fonts + + <li>modify logic for <code>forceBoxChars</code> resource to make the + "Line-Drawing Characters" menu entry use xterm's line-drawing + characters even asked to draw wide line-drawing characters which + are available in the font. + + <li>modify rectangle-support functions to preserve colors when + filling/erasing (request by Enzo Toscano, to match WRQ Reflection + behavior). + + <li>add getopt-parsing to tcapquery.pl, including feature to test the + extended cursor/editing keys. + + <li>make missing double-width glyphs display as double-width + (Debian #456236). + + <li>change <code>tcap-fkeys</code> and <code>rectangles</code> + configure options to enable them by default. + + <li>hide the mouse pointer while user is typing (request by Rodolfo + Borges). + + <li>extend configure options + <code>--enable-tcap-query</code> and + <code>--enable-tcap-fkeys</code> to + send cursor- and editing-keypad keys modified according to the + keyboard (or termcap) selection for shift, alt, control, meta. + + <li>modify <code>kdch1</code> in termcap, e.g., <code>xterm-r6</code> + to match the terminfo file. + + <li>add <code>-hm</code> option to turn <code>highlightColorMode</code> + on or off. + + <li>add <code>highlightColorMode</code> resource to separate the + new (since <a href="#xterm_225">patch #225</a>) highlighting with both text- and + background-colors (prompted by report/example by Thomas Wolff). + + <li>add <em>Keep Selection</em> menu entry to turn the + <code>keepSelection</code> resource on/off at runtime. + + <li>add <code>keepSelection</code> resource, which when enabled, + tells xterm to retain the X selection even after it stops + highlighting it (patch by Sergey Vlasov). + + <li>extend the <code>CSI > n</code> sequence to allow + disabling all types of modified-keys that the + <code>CSI > m</code> sequence affects. + + <li>move include for <code><xtermcap.h></code> in + <code>resize.c</code> to avoid redefinition of <code>termios</code> + structure on OpenSolaris (report by Rahul Gopinathan Nair). + + <li>extend terminfo building blocks for modified editing keys to + include all six keys. + + <li>synchronize terminfo with ncurses (report by Stephane Chazelas): + <ul> + <li>equate <code>xterm-xfree86</code> + and <code>xterm-xf86-v44</code>. + <li>add ncurses extensions OTbs, AX, for termcap conversions. + <li>make old/legacy entries such as + <code>xterm-24</code>, <code>xterm-65</code> + and aliases <code>xterms</code>, <code>vs100</code> + inherit from <code>xterm-old</code>. + <li>make <code>xterm-r5</code> and <code>xterm-r6</code> the + same, ignoring historical errors in X Consortium's version. + </ul> + + <li>fix an ifdef in logic for selecting regular + expressions while in a narrow-character locale (Debian #449227). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_229">Patch #229 - 2007/8/12</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>override locale in minstall.sh; + change in <a href="#xterm_226">patch #226</a> + does not work in UTF-8 locale (report by Zdenek Sekera). + + <li>undo an incorrect fix for a memory leak + in <a href="#xterm_209">patch #209</a> (Debian #435858). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_228">Patch #228 - 2007/7/22</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>modify configure script to permit combining + <code>--with-utempter</code> + and <code>--enable-setuid</code>, e.g., for using xterm with + the utempter library on FreeBSD (report by Andriy Gapon). + + <li>modify "Quit" menu entry to override the <code>-hold</code> + command-line option. + + <li>add a check in the startup error-reporting to avoid writing to + pipe when it has not been opened. In that case, report errors + directly to the standard error. + + <li>add OPT_READLINE definition to xtermcfg.hin, overlooked in + <a href="#xterm_205">patch #205</a> + (report by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo). + + <li>modify <code>88colors2.pl</code> and <code>256colors2.pl</code>, + adding <code>-r</code> + option to reverse the palettes for the extended colors. + + <li>check for partial overwrite or deletion of multi-column characters + in several cases, e.g., insert-character, delete-character, + etc., + and fill the remainder of the cells used by the multi-column + characters affected with blanks. + + <li>correct character-class codes in wide-character mode for characters + 215, 247 (see also <a href="#xterm_165">patch #165</a>). + + <li>fix missing assignment for UTF-8 parsing in widget initialization + (Debian #403360). + + <li>correct index expression used to set line-wrapping flag, making + selection from scrollback work consistently (Debian #430121, + report by Vincent Lefevre). + + <li>amend changes to handshake in + <a href="#xterm_226">patch #226</a> + to accommodate Solaris, which relies on the extra setting of + the terminal size after I/O initialization. + Do this by adding new resource <code>ptySttySize</code>, + which is false for Linux and MacOS X, i.e., true for + for Solaris and other SVR4 platforms, as well as FreeBSD + (reports by David Wood, Renato Botelho). + + <li>check for X events after cursor-left, and carriage return, + consistent with indexing operations + (comments by Vegard Nossum and Ingo Molnar on a mailing-list). + + <li>initialize the <code>.keyboard</code> structure, + needed for some platforms (such as Solaris) after + <a href="#xterm_227">patch #227</a> fixes for keysyms + (patch by David Wood). + + <li>update config.guess, config.sub +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_227">Patch #227 - 2007/6/27</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>exclude the Intel compiler from the extra gcc warning options + added in + <a href="#xterm_226">patch #226</a>. + + <li>modify change for Debian #422521 + from <a href="#xterm_226">patch #226</a> + to work with configurations where the X server does not + recognize + the <code>XF86Paste</code> + or <code>SunPaste</code> keysyms (report by Paolo Pumilia). + + <li>fix incorrect free in fix for "Selection" menu entry in + <a href="#xterm_226">patch #226</a>. +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_226">Patch #226 - 2007/6/17</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>add configure check to use <code>-Wno-unknown-pragmas</code> for + Solaris, and a few other new gcc warning options to address + regressions in its warning options. + + <li>add sample desktop and icon files, along with configure options for + manipulating them. + + <li>fix an infinite loop when showing a 2-column character in a + 1-column screen (Debian #426863). + + <li>add <code>XF86Paste</code> and <code>SunPaste</code> to the + default translations (Debian #422521, patch by Bernhard R Link). + + <li>update wcwidth.c (partly based on/prompted by mailing list + comment). + + <li>update/improve keysym2ucs.c based on Unicode 5.0.1d3 and Xorg + 7.1 keysymdef.h file. + + <li>improve <code>gen-pc-fkeys.pl</code>, making it show all of the + building-block terminfo entries used by xterm. + + <li>correct strings used for modifiers applied to F1-F4 in xterm+pcf1 + terminfo entry. + + <li>improve session management by adding the ICE connection number + to the <code>select</code> call rather than waking up once per + second (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + + <li>add environment variable <code>$XTERM_LOCALE</code> to help + with shell initialization, e.g., to set a specific locale for + xterm on systems where a global locale is set in the shell + startup scripts. + + <li>add resource settings <code>mkSampleSize</code> and + <code>mkSamplePass</code> + to modify the <code>mkWidth</code> added + in <a href="#xterm_201">patch #201</a>. + In <a href="#xterm_202">patch #202</a>, + xterm would also check if the system's + <code>wcwidth</code> matched its built-in tables + "well enough" to be used when <code>mkWidth</code> was false, + and if not would use the built-in tables anyway. + These resources allow the user to customize the decision + (prompted by comments by Emanuele Giaquinta) + + <li>modify logic which resets/updates the screensize on the child + process side of the pseudo-terminal to do this only if a + successful handshake was received, e.g., as determined by + the <code>waitForMap</code> resource (prompted by reports + by Emanuele Giaquinta and Bernhard R Link, but see also + <a href="#xterm_177">patch #177</a> and + <a href="#xterm_159">patch #159</a>. + + <li>improve permissions logic when closing pseudo-terminal + (Debian #12261, + patch by Nathanael Nerode, + analysis by Richard Braakman). + + <li>add resource <code>highlightReverse</code> which controls whether + xterm will allow selection highlighting to hide reverse-video + or use the older behavior which inverts the foreground and + background colors when selected text with reverse-video attribute + (report by Adam M Costello, comments by Victor Vaile). + + <li>restore a special case for cursor-color in + <code>ReverseVideo()</code> + lost in rewrite for <a href="#xterm_224">patch #224</a> + (report by Adam Sulmicki). + + <li>correct initialization for menu entry for <code>bellIsUrgent</code> + (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + + <li>correct length of underlining for double-width Xft fonts + (report by Shidai Liu "Leo"). + + <li>correct clipping for double-width Xft fonts + (report by Shidai Liu "Leo"). + + <li>modify initialization for <code>italicULMode</code> to avoid + <code>XftPatternBuild</code> reusing bold attributes + (report by Shidai Liu "Leo"). + + <li>add a check in case someone tries to call the + <code>popup-menu()</code> action on a menu which is not initialized + (Debian #426364). + + <li>improve CF_IMAKE_CFLAGS to work with Solaris sed (report by Peter + Bray). + + <li>improve guess for X's manpage section in <code>minstall.sh</code>, + (prompted by comment by Miroslav Lichvar). + + <li>modify <code>minstall.sh</code> to handle manpage patch with more + than one dot (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + + <li>fix configure message for --disable-setgid option (patch by + Miroslav Lichvar). + + <li>add <code>allowTitleOps</code> resource to allow users to prevent + the title- and icon-names from changing (request by John Bashinski). + + <li>fix "spawn-new-terminal" action, for the case where no parameter + is passed to the action (patch by Daniel Colascione). + + <li>fix error-checking on internal font switching for "Selection" + menu entry (Debian #421523). + + <li>amend select/paste change from + <a href="#xterm_225">patch #225</a> + by limiting it to non-UTF-8/non-KOI8-R encoding (Debian #420974). + + <li>add workaround for groff ".URL" codes which are not present in + some commonly-used bitmap fonts (Debian #418324). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_225">Patch #225 - 2007/3/24</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>add <code>useClipping</code> resource to allow clipping to be + disabled. + + <li>use <code>XftDrawSetClipRectangles</code> + to work around Xft pixel-trash (report by Reuben Thomas). + + <li>add configure option <code>--enable-tcap-fkeys</code>, and + resource <code>tcapFunctionKeys</code>, which can be used + to tell xterm to use function-key definitions from the termcap + (or terminfo) which it uses to set $TERM on startup. + + <li>add resources <code>altIsNotMeta</code> and + <code>altSendsEscape</code> to allow one to use Alt-keys like the + meta-key even if they are bound to different keycodes (prompted by + discussion with Daniel Jacobowitz). + + <li>revert a change from <a href="#xterm_216">patch #216</a> + that unnecessarily made the meta modifier override + the <code>eightBitInput</code> resource if the alt- and + meta-modifiers happened to overlap + (report/patch by Daniel Jacobowitz). + + <li>correct associated font for active icon for colored text + (broken in <a href="#xterm_224">patch #224</a>). + + <li>correct ifdef's for Darwin (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + + <li>add <code>highlightTextColor</code> resource, and options + <code>-selfg</code>, <code>-selbg</code> like <code>xwsh</code> + (adapted from patch by Victor Vaile). + + <li>revise <code>find_closest_color()</code> function to address + concern about borrowing from <code>Tcl/Tk</code> + (request by Dan McNichol). + + <li>add "spawn-new-terminal" action, which can be assigned to key + translation, allowing one to spawn a new copy of xterm using + the current process' working directory (adapted from patch + by Daniel Colascione). + + <li>improve select/paste between UTF-8 and Latin1 xterms by adapting + the translations from <a href="#xterm_185">patch #185</a>. + Extend that to include Unicode fullwidth forms FF00-FF5E. + Also modify select/paste of DEC line-drawing characters in + Latin1 mode to use ASCII characters. + + <li>add "Enable Bell Urgency" to VT Options menu, removed "Enable + Margin Bell". + + <li>add <code>bellIsUrgent</code> resource to control whether the + Urgency hint is set/reset. + + <li>modify to set Urgency window manager hint on bell, reset it on + Focus-In event (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + + <li>add <code>--disable-setgid</code> configure option (request by + Miroslav Lichvar). + + <li>fix a possible infinite loop in last change to + <code>dabbrev-expand()</code> (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + + <li>modify initialization to set the pty erase value if the + <code>erase</code> is set in the <code>ttyModes</code> resource. + This overrides the <code>ptyInitialErase</code> setting (request by + Lluís Batlle i Rossell). + + <li>add <code>initialFont</code> resource to xterm widget, like + tek-widget (Debian #299669). + + <li>amend change to <code>boldMode</code> from + <a href="#xterm_223">patch #223</a> for Debian #347790. + As noted in Debian #412599, that made xterm + no longer match the documented behavior. + Add new resource <code>alwaysBoldMode</code> + to allow overriding the comparison + between normal/bold fonts when deciding whether to use overstriking + to simulate bold fonts. + + <li>restore background color in ClearCurBackground(), omitted in + changes for <a href="#xterm_223">patch #223</a> (report by + Miroslav Lichvar). + + <li>correct logic for repainting double-width TrueType characters + (prompted by test-case for Novell #246573). + + <li>add a check to avoid trying to repeat a multibyte character + (report by Sami Farin). + + <li>modify parameter to <code>XftNameParse()</code> to select wide + face-name as needed, to make <code>-fd</code> option work (patch by + Mike Fabian, Novell #246573). + + <li>correct logic for mouse highlight tracking's abort sequence, + broken in a restructuring modification from + <a href="#xterm_224">patch #224</a> + (report by Thomas Wolff). + + <li>revert the simplification of blinking cursor, since that broke + the xor'ing introduced in <a href="#xterm_193">patch #193</a> + (report by Thomas Wolff). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_224">Patch #224 - 2007/2/11</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>simplify code for set/reset mode for blinking cursor + (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + + <li>modify <code>dabbrev-expand()</code> to restart after the last + match (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + + <li>add control sequences for enabling/disabling focus in/out event + reporting (request by Bram Moolenaar). + + <li>improve startup performance of menus by adding resource setting + <code>menuLocale</code> which can be set to override X's + lengthy initialization of fontsets - which are seldom used + for the <code>Xaw</code> popup menus (adapted from patch by + Dave Coffin). + + <li>modify do_precomposition() function and make-compose.sh to handle + 21-bit codes vs the 16-bit codes those were written for, and + fix a few mis-sorted codes + (patch by Thomas Wolff). + + <li>handle special case in <code>-cjk_width</code> + which unexpectedly caused a character's width to change when + a combining character + (patch by Thomas Wolff) + + <li>fix build for GNU/KFreeBSD (Debian #40111). + + <li>consolidate GC creation/updating into a single module to reduce GC + manipulation (prompted by Debian #389476, though a complete fix + would involve optimizing the scrolling behavior). + + <li>fix ifdef of xtermCellWidth(), which broke for a case without + TrueType and without wide-character support (report by Martin + Pirker). + + <li>undo a comparison in <code>handle_translated_exposure</code> which + did not work due to X server optimization. That caused the + inner border to be repainted with unexpected colors when handling + a repaint, e.g., after switching to/from another workspace + (Debian #401726, Redhat Bugzilla #223027). + + <li>allow <code>-cr</code> option to override cursor color when + <code>-ah</code> option is used (Debian #406502). + + <li>add a note in xterm's manpage explaining that the <code>-bw</code> + (or <code>-w</code>) option is only used by the window manager, + if at all (Debian #405043). + + <li>make <code>Selection</code> of <code>VT Fonts</code> work with + <code>selectToClipboard</code> resource. + + <li>correct length calculation for <code>Selection</code> entry of + <code>VT Fonts</code> menu, broken since it ignored the + actual selection length since X11R4. + + <li>fixes for fontsize changes with <code>-fa</code> option (Redhat + Bugzilla #222340). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_223">Patch #223 - 2006/11/30</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>add <code>--enable-rectangles</code> configure option (request by + Martin Pirker). + + <li>correct default value for <code>--with-symlink</code> configure + option. + + <li>fixes configure script macros that use <code>$X_EXTRA_LIBS</code>. + + <li>modify configure script to provide support for pre-package config + versions of Xft (FreeType). + + <li>add the Xaw scrollbar translations resource to the xterm manpage, + add an example showing how to change the mouse button assignments + (Debian #382225). + + <li>amend a change from <a href="#xterm_216">patch #216</a>, + which omitted modifiers for control, meta, etc., if they were + mixed with any other modifiers. The intent of the change was + to avoid confusion with + <code>XK_Mode_switch</code> + and <code>XK_ISO_Level3_Shift</code>; + the check is now done explicitly (report by Daniel Jacobowitz). + + <li>interpret a negative value for <code>modifyCursorKeys</code> + or <code>modifyFunctionKeys</code> resources to disable the + respective features (prompted by Novell #220728). + + <li>amend cell-width computation for FreeType from + <a href="#xterm_217">patch #217</a>, which did not work + for VT100 line-drawing characters (Debian #399638, GenToo #147111). + + <li>amend a change from <a href="#xterm_216">patch #216</a>, + which made alt-modifier on a cursor-key send a modifier parameter + (Novell #220728). + + <li>correct an off-by-one that made DECCRA not work (report/patch by + Martin Pirker). + + <li>revert an optimization in SGR_Foreground() and SGR_Background + from <a href="#xterm_209">patch #209</a> (Debian #347722, + analysis by Pierre Lombard). + + <li>fix for <code>boldMode</code> (Debian #347790, patch by Tim Pope). + + <li>amend fix for <code>-iconic</code> in + <a href="#xterm_208">patch #208</a>, + which broke the positioning part of <code>-geom</code> with toolbar + configuration. + + <li>fix to prevent indexing error in regular expressions (patch + by Dennis Schneider). + + <li>fixes to make the internalBorder area not change color due to + reverseVideo and/or related exposure events. The latter was a very + old bug exposed in <a href="#xterm_196">patch #196</a> (report by + Neil Hoggarth, also Debian #397624). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_222">Patch #222 - 2006/10/17</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>minor optimization for recoloring cursor via dynamic colors. + + <li>fix a bug caused by restructuring of tek4014 widget (report by Paul + Schenkeveld) +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_221">Patch #221 - 2006/10/1</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>fix for regular expressions: the code which converted the column + offset within a line did not check properly for the end of a line, + and if allowed to match the whole line, would select the beginning + of the following line. If the following line were empty, in turn + it would select from the next, etc. (report by Sean + Reifschneider). + + <li>minor optimization of color allocation to avoid repainting the + screen if the corresponding color had not been allocated. + + <li>fixes for vttests/256colors.pl (report by Egmont Koblinger). + + <li>add terminfo building block entries for modifiers of the 6-key + editing keypad. + + <li>fix for initialization of tek4014 which broke on QNX 6.1 +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_220">Patch #220 - 2006/9/10</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>make "xterm -t -iconic" work as expected, i.e., start in tek4014 + mode, but iconified. +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_219">Patch #219 - 2006/9/4</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>some internal restructuring to separate data for vt100 and tek4014 + widgets. + + <li>fix a few cases where form-events would be seen by the vt100 + widget when built with the toolbar configuration. +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_218">Patch #218 - 2006/8/27</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>change behavior when encountering an illegal character in a title + string. Rather than reject the string, translate illegal + characters into "?" and use the string (requested by Thomas Wolff). + + <li>improve checks for nonprinting characters in title strings + (report by Samuel Thibault). + + <li>correct typo in menu labels, changing <code>print-redirect</code> + to <code>print-redir</code>, making it follow the manpage and + match the usage for the actions table (report by Samuel Thibault). + + <li>correct a typo that prevents building with some older systems such + as Solaris 2.6 (report by Julian Bridle). +</ul> + +<H1><A NAME="xterm_217">Patch #217 - 2006/8/20</A></H1> +<ul> + <li>minor improvements to FreeType font layout and drawing. + + <li>add a check in the ptyInitialErase logic to ensure that the + termcap was read (Redhat Bugzilla #201246). + + <li>limit changes for reverse-video from + <a href="#xterm_216">patch #216</a> to cases where the + reverse-video command-line option is used + (report by Zdenek Sekera). + + <li>correct bitmap-derived pointsizes for TrueType fonts; they should + be proportional to the square root of the area of the bitmap + fonts. + + <li>add resources to specify pointsize of TrueType fonts (request + by Reuben Thomas). + + <li>improve install of terminfo by filtering out harmless messages + related to extended capabilities. At the same time, use ncurses + tic to compile the extended capabilities if possible + (report by Zdenek Sekera). + + <li>update "xterm+pcfkeys" terminfo entry to correspond to + <a href="#xterm_216">patch #216</a>. +</ul> + <H1><A NAME="xterm_216">Patch #216 - 2006/8/3</A></H1> <ul> <li>improve handling of <code>ConfigureNotify</code> events by checking @@ -357,7 +1135,7 @@ is the latest version of this file. colors inconsistent. <li>corrected calls used for <code>--disable-setuid</code> option, - add debugging traces to help diagnose this area. + add debugging traces to help diagnose this area. <li>modify configure script to ensure that <code>USE_UTMP_SETGID</code> is defined only if the check for POSIX saved-ids succeeds, or @@ -435,7 +1213,7 @@ is the latest version of this file. <li>minor optimization to cell layout; will use that to simplify some logic and allow for more than two combining characters in another patch. - + <li>add <code>utf8Latin1</code> resource to make optional the feature from <a href="#xterm_209">patch #209</a> which allowed ISO-8859-1 fonts to be used in cases @@ -527,7 +1305,7 @@ is the latest version of this file. <li>add vttests/paste64.pl script to test experimental option for setting/getting selection data. - <li>add some error-checking in fontutils.c + <li>add some error-checking in fontutils.c (prompted by David Dawes commit message for XFree86). <li>change xterm manpage to show the actual color resource names @@ -569,7 +1347,7 @@ is the latest version of this file. "Select To Clipboard"). <li>add resource <code>selectToClipboard</code>, - action <code>set-select</code> and a menu entry to allow + action <code>set-select</code> and a menu entry to allow users to switch between PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD for select/paste. <li>allow cursor to have the same color as foreground (text), since it @@ -787,7 +1565,7 @@ is the latest version of this file. <li>modify parsing of control sequence <code>CSI T</code> to allow scroll-down to be sent while mouse tracking is enabled (request by - D Hugh Redelmeier). + D Hugh Redelmeier). <li>correct termcap "me" (mode-end) string so it does not modify the alternate character set (report by Andrey Chernov). @@ -1015,7 +1793,8 @@ is the latest version of this file. <li>rename <code>$CMD</code> variable in <code>plink.sh</code> because it is a reserved symbol in bash 3.00.16 (report by Ted Taylor). - <li>add environment variables $XTERM_SHELL and $XTERM_VERSION + <li>add environment variables <code>$XTERM_SHELL</code> and + <code>$XTERM_VERSION</code> (request by Zdenek Sekera). <li>corrected workaround for background color of menubar, which gave @@ -3632,7 +4411,7 @@ is the latest version of this file. Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com>). <li>correct ifdef'ing for conflict between definitions in AIX's - <sys/select.h> and <X11/XPoll.h> (reported by Clint + <sys/select.h> and <X11/Xpoll.h> (reported by Clint Olsen). <li>add checks for return-values of getutid(), initgroups() and @@ -4019,12 +4798,12 @@ is the latest version of this file. (prompted by a problem report for <code>-C</code> by Jeremie Petit <Jeremie.Petit@digital.com>). - <li>add workaround for conflict between <X11/XPoll.h> and + <li>add workaround for conflict between <X11/Xpoll.h> and <sys/select.h> on AIX 4.3 (Richard Griswold <griswold@acm.org>). <li>add configure script test to resolve conflict between between - <X11/XPoll.h> and <sys/select.h> + <X11/Xpoll.h> and <sys/select.h> <li>modify translation of UTF-8 sequences to reject "overly long" variations (patch by Markus Kuhn). |