--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2021/06/18 12:35:38 1.1247 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2021/11/22 17:11:40 1.1276 @@ -39,26 +39,65 @@ TODO: URxvt::Ext::Name installs urxvt ext name and provides pod/manpage for URxvt::Ext::Name TODO: üpixel droppins idenrasm,ll,scrollup TODO: cuu/cud and probably others default to 1 when arg is 0, not just missing, in xterm/vt102, but not in rxvt - -TODO: xterm-osc does not autoload background +TODO: clean up the resource vs. long option mess, especially in the manpage. TODO: think about daemon delaying urxvt client exit. - +IDEA: use harfbuzz to render combining sequences, maybe also complex scripts TODO: https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues/492 urxvt wrongfully(?) needa configurenotify after mapwindow? also, black border? -TODO: compose chars should be rendered "in one go" for xft. maybe. possibly. -TODO: disbale bracketed paste mode option, too amny prorgams abuse it - - enable confirm-paste extzensions by default, can be disabled by e.g. + +9.29 Mon 22 Nov 2021 18:07:14 CET + - libptytty (http://dist.schmorp.de/libptytty/) is now a required + external dependency. + - enable confirm-paste extension by default, can be disabled by e.g. URxvt.perl-ext: -confirm-paste + - Key bindings specified with the -keysym option or with resources of + the form URxvt*keysym work again. Such resources, as opposed to + resources of the form URxvt.keysym, were not officially allowed but + accepted, so ignoring them is considered a regression. + - new option/resource -rm/rewrapMode, which sets the line rewrap + mode to auto, never or always. + - new option/resource -dpb/disablePasteBrackets, which can be used to + disable bracketed paste mode sequences, as more and more programs + abuse these sequences (typically in the name of security, but these + sequences are not improving security). Also, bracketed paste mode + is now under frills. + - add manpage for urclock. + - confirm-paste wrongly considered brackets as ctrlchars (patch by + Jakub Wilk, debian bug #995244). - if urxvt cannot detect a good estimate for font width (because a font does - not contain laitn characters at all for example), it will now fall - back to xft's max_advance_width, which works well with soem fonts. It + not contain latin characters at all for example), it will now fall + back to xft's max_advance_width, which works well with some fonts. It currently will warn about this. - do not render variation selectors in the default font as boxes, treat them as zero-width characters. - - unicode characters outside of the BMP can now be rendered even - without --enable-unicode3, when using xft fonts. - - urxvt now passes full combining character sequences to xft, - increasing the chance of it doing something useful with it, such - as correctly applying variant selectors. + - change combining character architecture to allow fonts to handle + combining sequences on their own. This could allow future renderers + to be more intelligent about these sequences. + - use the previous enhancement to allow unicode characters outside of the + BMP to be rendered even without --enable-unicode3, as long as an + xft with the character is configured. + It's recommended to stay with disabled unicode3 even more now. + - freetype/xft have been verified to return nonsensical offsets for + combining characters. urxvt tries to compensate to some extent, + but diacritics will be slightly off in many cases, and far off in + some cases (e.g. input mono). + - when checking for overlap/careful handling, take non-basefont + character shifts into account. + - extensions can now request autoloading on OSC and Perl OSC sequences, + implement this for the background, clipboard-osc and overlay-osc + extensions. + - the background extension will now be autoloaded when the OSC 20 or 705 + sequence is received. + - added OSC 776 sequence to return character cell width, height and font + ascent, which is useful when using urxvt as slave to calculate window + size form or to row/column count. + - matcher extension documentation now points out some requirements for + regular expressions. the default url matching regex will now try + to match IRLs in addition to URLs. + - The view_start perl method now scrolls to the bottom also when the + argument is greater than 0. + - eval scroll actions now scroll to the bottom when scrolling down and + there are less lines to scroll than the ones requested (reported by + Stephen Talley). - allow perl-ext and perl-ext-common to override autoloaded extensions. this allows tabbed to disable itself in subtabs, avoiding recursive loading. @@ -67,6 +106,24 @@ cs_koi8_u_from_unicode). - unicode characters > 0x100000 were not handled correctly w.r.t. font rendering. + - replace bitstream vera by dejavu sans, as it has replaced the former + almost everywhere. + - urxvt will now try tic -x first and only fall back to tic without -x + when tic -x fails. + - fix urclock not erasing the old date on the clock face, causing + overdraw, plus a host of other small fixes and improvements. + - shave off over 1K of code size from urclock by replacing the sine table + with a slightly less accurate fixed point approximation. + - do not specify indentation with =over in pod, this is no longer + needed with semi-modern pod tools and gives the formatter more + stylistic freedom. + - background extension did not set the "size-sensitive" flag + when repeat mode wasn't normal. + - extensions are now subjected to "use strict 'subs'". + - avoid crashing when xft successfully opens a font but then somehow + can't lock the face. + - locale_decode/encode api methods now pass through undef unchanged. + - fix undefined behaviour in the perl hook function, as diagnosed by clang. 9.26 Fri May 14 19:14:14 CEST 2021 - ev_iouring.c was wrongly required during compilation, and wrongly