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1 root 1.462 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2    
3 root 1.435 TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
4 root 1.428 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
5 root 1.365 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
6 root 1.287 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
7 root 1.443 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
8 root 1.507 TODO: clarify and get rid of SMOOTH_REFRESH etc.
9 root 1.509 TODO: run external commands more sytematically (using $self->env etc.)
10 root 1.363 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
11 root 1.346 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
12 root 1.492 WISH: support tex fonts
13 root 1.346
14 root 1.508 7.0
15 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
16 root 1.501 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
17 root 1.503 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
18     option-popup extensions enabled by default.
19 root 1.502 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
20     will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
21 root 1.499 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
22     and much much more.
23 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
24 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
25 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
26 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
27     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
28 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
29 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
30 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
31 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
32 root 1.503 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
33 root 1.504 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
34     - applied better configure support for openpty by Emanuele Giaquinta.
35 root 1.505 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
36 root 1.506 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
37     compatible, and not really small either.
38     - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
39     - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
40 root 1.493
41 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
42 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
43     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
44     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
45 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
46     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
47     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
48 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
49     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
50 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
51 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
52     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
53 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
54 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
55 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
56 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
57 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
58 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
59 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
60 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
61     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
62     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
63 root 1.474
64 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
65 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
66     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
67     Chuck Blake.
68 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
69     obscure the mouse cursor position.
70 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
71 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
72     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
73 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
74     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
75 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
76     transfer efficiency.
77 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
78 root 1.463
79 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
80 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
81 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
82     while the user still drags.
83 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
84     not drawn correctly.
85 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
86     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
87 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
88     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
89 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
90     stripping whitespace.
91 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
92 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
93 root 1.452
94 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
95 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
96 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
97 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
98     (also a bug in original rxvt).
99 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
100     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
101     partial patch).
102     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
103     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
104 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
105 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
106 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
107 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
108 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
109 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
110 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
111     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
112     - slight overall speed improvements.
113     - considerably improved code clarity.
114 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
115     buffer.
116 root 1.437
117 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
118 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
119     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
120     (matters only for rxvtd).
121 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
122 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
123 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
124 root 1.431
125 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
126 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
127 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
128     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
129     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
130     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
131     percentage by 100-percentage.
132     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
133     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
134     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
135     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
136     windows.
137     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
138     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
139     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
140     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
141     - replaced INSTALL file.
142    
143 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
144 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
145 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
146     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
147     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
148     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
149     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
150     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
151 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
152 root 1.411
153 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
154 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
155     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
156     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
157     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
158     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
159     Affects display in iso14755 box.
160     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
161     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
162     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
163     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
164     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
165     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
166     cutting pieces off of characters.
167     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
168     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
169     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
170     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
171     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
172     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
173     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
174 root 1.399
175 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
176 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
177 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
178     meaning of the given key.
179     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
180     (patch by Martin Edlman).
181 root 1.394
182 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
183     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
184 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
185     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
186     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
187 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
188 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
189 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
190 root 1.433 to disable it.
191 root 1.393
192 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
193     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
194 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
195     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
196     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
197     with modifiers.
198 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
199     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
200 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
201     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
202     and clear the scrollback buffer.
203 root 1.389
204 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
205 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
206 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
207     a command.
208     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
209     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
210     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
211     in Perl/Gtk2.
212     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
213     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
214     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
215     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
216     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
217     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
218     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
219     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
220     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
221     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
222     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
223     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
224     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
225     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
226     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
227 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
228 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
229     rxvt-unicode).
230     - get rid of the intpro files.
231 root 1.373
232 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
233 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
234 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
235     (Kuang-che Wu).
236     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
237     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
238     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
239     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
240     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
241     along with other, similar, cleanups.
242     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
243     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
244     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
245     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
246     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
247     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
248 root 1.361
249 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
250     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
251 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
252     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
253     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
254     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
255     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
256     his patience and time in tracking this down).
257     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
258     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
259 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
260 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
261     by Joël Riou).
262     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
263     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
264     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
265     - shaved off some code segment size.
266     - various code cleanups.
267     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
268 root 1.360
269 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
270 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
271     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
272     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
273     -pixmap is active.
274     - new option/resource imFont.
275     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
276     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
277     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
278     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
279     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
280     (WU Fengguang).
281     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
282     examples (rxvt.1).
283     - removed src/test completely.
284     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
285 root 1.287
286 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
287 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
288     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
289     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
290     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
291     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
292     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
293     resulting in segfaults.
294     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
295     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
296     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
297     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
298     (Mikael Magnusson).
299     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
300     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
301     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
302     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
303     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
304     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
305     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
306     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
307     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
308     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
309     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
310     - initialize the locale much earlier.
311     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
312 root 1.331
313 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
314 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
315     black on initial startup.
316     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
317     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
318 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
319 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
320     additional multimedia keys.
321     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
322     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
323 root 1.312
324 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
325 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
326 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
327     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
328     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
329     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
330     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
331     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
332     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
333     ignored.
334     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
335     instead.
336     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
337     (reported by hednod).
338     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
339     - fix atom name enumeration.
340 root 1.291
341 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
342     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
343 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
344     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
345     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
346     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
347 root 1.288
348     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
349 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
350 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
351     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
352     titles etc.
353     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
354     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
355     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
356     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
357     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
358     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
359     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
360     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
361     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
362     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
363     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
364     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
365     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
366     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
367 root 1.272
368 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
369 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
370     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
371     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
372     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
373     thoroughly.
374     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
375     now, too.
376 root 1.274
377 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
378 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
379 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
380     on high-latency networks.
381     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
382     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
383     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
384     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
385     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
386     by Gunnar Ritter.
387     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
388     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
389 root 1.252
390 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
391     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
392 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
393 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
394 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
395 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
396 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
397     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
398     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
399     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
400 root 1.263
401 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
402     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
403 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
404     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
405     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
406     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
407     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
408     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
409     ... terminated by a fix.
410     - new supported preeeditType "None".
411     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
412     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
413     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
414     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
415     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
416     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
417     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
418     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
419     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
420     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
421     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
422     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
423     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
424     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
425     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
426     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
427     in tracking this down.
428     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
429     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
430 root 1.252
431     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
432     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
433 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
434 root 1.236
435     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
436 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
437     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
438     installed if tic is available.
439     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
440     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
441     - removed README.unicode.
442     - support select&paste of tab characters.
443     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
444     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
445     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
446     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
447     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
448     screen updates with curses.
449     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
450     by spaces.
451     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
452     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
453     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
454     is just too slow for this to work.
455     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
456     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
457     implement. use --enable-styles.
458     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
459     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
460     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
461     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
462     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
463     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
464 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
465 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
466     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
467     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
468     (only for non-bold right now).
469     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
470     - better default font size and style.
471     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
472     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
473     single character against the base font extents and will only
474     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
475     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
476     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
477     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
478     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
479     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
480     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
481     screen height.
482     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
483     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
484     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
485     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
486     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
487     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
488     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
489     - removed OSC 702.
490     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
491     confused by it rather than using it.
492 root 1.168
493 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
494     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
495 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
496     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
497 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
498 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
499     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
500     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
501     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
502     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
503     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
504     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
505     close).
506     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
507     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
508     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
509     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
510 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
511 root 1.430 could not be created.
512     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
513     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
514     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
515     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
516     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
517     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
518     works.
519 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
520 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
521     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
522     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
523     character is a sensible operation.
524     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
525     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
526     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
527     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
528     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
529     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
530     with selections).
531 root 1.194
532 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
533 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
534     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
535     needs access to a local shell window).
536     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
537     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
538     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
539     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
540     a little window or so) would be welcome.
541     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
542     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
543     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
544     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
545     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
546     added there.
547     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
548     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
549 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
550 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
551     instead of being ignored.
552     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
553     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
554     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
555     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
556     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
557     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
558     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
559     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
560     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
561     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
562     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
563     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
564     needs testing anyways.
565     - more complete compile options help output.
566     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
567     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
568     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
569     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
570     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
571     - minor doc fix.
572 root 1.137
573 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
574 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
575     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
576     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
577 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
578 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
579     memmove :)
580 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
581 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
582     (debian bug #169415).
583     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
584     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
585     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
586     - updated config.guess.
587 root 1.147
588     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
589 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
590 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
591     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
592     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
593     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
594     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
595     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
596     speeding up scrolling immensely.
597     - various other optimizations.
598     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
599 root 1.145
600     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
601 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
602     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
603     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
604 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
605 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
606 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
607     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
608     Mikael Magnusson).
609     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
610 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
611 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
612 root 1.124
613     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
614 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
615     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
616     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
617     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
618     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
619 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
620 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
621     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
622 root 1.124
623     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
624     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
625 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
626     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
627     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
628     well as with other terminal emulators.
629 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
630 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
631     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
632     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
633     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
634     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
635     Bloch.
636 root 1.124
637     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
638     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
639     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
640     sorry).
641     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
642     make it a little bit more correct c++).
643    
644 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
645 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
646     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
647     - minor i18n issue fixes.
648 pcg 1.114
649 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
650     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
651 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
652     - fix some minor bugs.
653 pcg 1.110
654 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
655 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
656 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
657     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
658     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
659     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
660     an extension and is slightly ugly.
661 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
662 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
663     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
664 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
665 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
666     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
667     overwritten (as is common).
668     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
669     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
670 pcg 1.108
671     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
672     - minor doc corrections.
673 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
674     avoid clashes with xterm.
675     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
676     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
677     window colour when arg is "?".
678     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
679     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
680     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
681     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
682     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
683     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
684     (FRILLS).
685     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
686     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
687     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
688     - set _NET_WM_PID.
689 pcg 1.108
690 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
691     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
692 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
693     - more informative error messages.
694     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
695     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
696     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
697     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
698     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
699 pcg 1.91
700 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
701     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
702     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
703 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
704     - removed old selection style completely.
705     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
706     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
707     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
708     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
709     be used from within rxvt.
710     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
711 pcg 1.83
712 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
713     - code cleanup release.
714     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
715 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
716     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
717     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
718     all files.
719     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
720     --enable-xgetdefaults.
721 pcg 1.74
722 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
723 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
724     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
725     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
726     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
727     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
728 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
729 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
730     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
731     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
732     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
733     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
734     --disable-xgetdefault.
735     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
736     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
737     unicode character.
738     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
739     get it wrong.
740     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
741 pcg 1.69
742 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
743 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
744 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
745     settings.
746     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
747     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
748     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
749     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
750     mbrtowc.
751     - more robust encoding name matching.
752     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
753     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
754     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
755     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
756     resources and docs.
757     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
758 pcg 1.58
759 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
760     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
761 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
762     - configure cleanup
763     - viscii enabled by default
764     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
765 pcg 1.50
766     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
767     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
768    
769 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
770 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
771 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
772     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
773     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
774     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
775     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
776     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
777     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
778     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
779     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
780     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
781     reported by joel reed.
782     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
783     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
784     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
785     being selected.
786     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
787     - removed greek support.
788     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
789     - correct cursor width if !focus.
790     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
791 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
792 root 1.430 contributed.
793     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
794     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
795     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
796     - many other minor bugfixes.
797 pcg 1.26
798 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
799 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
800 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
801     - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
802     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
803     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
804     - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
805     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
806     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
807     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
808 pcg 1.19
809 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
810     - further cleanups.
811 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
812     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
813     use reverse video, not _blink_.
814     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
815     please drop me a note.
816 pcg 1.16
817 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
818 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
819 root 1.430 - blinking text.
820     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
821     normal text when colorBD is not set.
822     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
823     was never implemented
824 pcg 1.13
825 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
826 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
827 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
828     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
829     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
830     reported by fefe
831     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
832     Markus Demleitner
833     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
834     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
835     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
836 pcg 1.7
837 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
838 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
839 root 1.430 - small font tunings
840     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
841     - better error reporting for unknown options
842 pcg 1.1
843 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
844 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
845     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
846     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
847     - much faster x11 font selection
848 pcg 1.2
849     1.2 2003-12-24
850 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
851 root 1.430 - better font matching
852     - better memory management (less memory)
853     - new fallback: gnu freefont
854 pcg 1.2
855     1.1 2003-12-18
856 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
857     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
858     - much improved font choosing
859 pcg 1.2
860 pcg 1.1 1.0
861 root 1.430 - first release
862     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
863     - removed rclock et al.
864     - initial conversion to C++
865 root 1.194