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1rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
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3TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve
4TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
5TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
6TODO: split perl documentation and urxvt.pm into separate files
1TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 7TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
2TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
3TODO: safer command: keymap processing.
4TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 8TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
5TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. 9TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
10TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?)
11TODO: default selection should handle = better
12TODO: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf
13WISH: skipscroll option
14WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
15WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
16WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
6TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 17WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
7WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences. 18DUMB: support tex fonts
8WISH: line-rewrapping on resize
9WISH: searchable backlog
10WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (my dream project)
11WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
12WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
13 19
20 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
21 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
22 generic osc_seq.
23
247.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
25 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
26 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
27 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
28 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
29 click, and eats the click.
30 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
31 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
32 refresh bugs please.
33 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
34 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
35 improve size hint setting.
36 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
37 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
38 to correctly position their preedit window.
39 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
40 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
41 in empts spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
42 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
43 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
44 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
45 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
46 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
47 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
48 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
49 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
50 (reported by Paco-Paco).
51 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
52 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
53 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
54
557.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
56 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
57 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
58 resource value.
59 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
60 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
61 relevant tab window.
62 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
63 (initial patch by hednod).
64 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
65 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
66 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
67 the benefit of automove-background.
68 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
69 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
70 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
71 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
72 __linux__.
73 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
74 the colour components.
75 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
76 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
77 - more colour rtt optimisations.
78 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
79 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
80 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
81 - minor libptytty update.
82
837.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
84 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
85 detection:
86 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
87 - overlap detection was improved.
88 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
89 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
90 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
91 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
92 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
93 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
94 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
95 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
96 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
97 broken.
98 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
99 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
100 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
101 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
102 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
103 (patch by Paco-Paco).
104 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
105 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
106 an "[alpha]" prefix.
107 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
108 transparent. Long Live Xft!
109 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
110 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
111 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
112 on a pseudocolor screen.
113 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
114 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
115 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
116 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
117 - small configure updates.
118 - further RTT optimisations.
119
1207.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
121 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
122 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
123 - small configure updates for libptytty.
124 - fixed version options: line output.
125 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
126
1277.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
128 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
129 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
130 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
131 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
132 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
133 selection extension.
134 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
135 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
136 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
137 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
138 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
139 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
140 needs the careful rendering mode.
141 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
142 too wide and needs careful mode.
143 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
144 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
145 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
146 atoms only once per display.
147 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
148 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
149 xterm.
150
1517.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
152 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
153 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
154 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
155 ctrl-shift-672c).
156 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
157 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
158 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
159 the primary screen.
160 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
161 could lead to an assertion failure.
162 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
163 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
164 via mouse clicks.
165 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
166 with shift - mouse button 2.
167 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
168 in non-synthetic events.
169 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
170 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
171 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
172 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
173 whole urxvt[d] process.
174 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
175 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
176 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
177 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
178
1797.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
180 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
181 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
182 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
183 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
184 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
185 special privileges.
186 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
187 itself.
188 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
189 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
190 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
191 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
192 similar stuff.
193 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
194 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
195 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
196 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
197 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
198 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
199 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
200 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
201 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
202 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
203 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
204 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
205 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
206 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
207 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
208 to set the window title.
209 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
210 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
211 at the wrong time.
212 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
213 anymore.
214 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
215 - nuked QNX support.
216 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
217 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
218 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
219 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
220
2217.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
222 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
223 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
224 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
225 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
226 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
227 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
228 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
229 and much much more.
230 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
231 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
232 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
233 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
234 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
235 setuid/setgid.
236 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
237 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
238 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
239 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
240 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
241 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
242 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
243 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
244 compatible, and not really small either.
245 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
246 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
247 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
248 to crashes.
249 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
250 colours.
251 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
252 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
253
2546.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
255 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
256 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
257 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
258 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
259 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
260 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
261 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
262 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
263 by Mikachu).
264 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
265 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
266 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
267 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
268 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
269 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
270 - fix directory permissions on install.
271 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
272 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
273 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
274 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
275 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
276
2776.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
278 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
279 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
280 Chuck Blake.
281 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
282 obscure the mouse cursor position.
283 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
284 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
285 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
286 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
287 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
288 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
289 transfer efficiency.
290 - further minor cleanups.
291
2926.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
293 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
294 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
295 while the user still drags.
296 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
297 not drawn correctly.
298 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
299 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
300 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
301 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
302 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
303 stripping whitespace.
304 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
305 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
306
3076.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
308 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
309 - enable slow link support by default.
310 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
311 (also a bug in original rxvt).
312 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
313 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
314 partial patch).
315 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
316 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
317 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
318 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
319 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
320 - implement -hold option.
321 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
322 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
323 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
324 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
325 - slight overall speed improvements.
326 - considerably improved code clarity.
327 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
328 buffer.
329
3305.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
14 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix. 331 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
15 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal 332 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
16 (matters only for rxvtd). 333 (matters only for rxvtd).
17 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian). 334 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
18 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return 335 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
42 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do 359 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
43 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't 360 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
44 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes). 361 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
45 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines 362 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
46 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra 363 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
47 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in oriignal rxvt). 364 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
48 365
495.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005 3665.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
50 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised 367 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
51 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected). 368 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
52 Reported by Jasmin Buchert. 369 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
629 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 946 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
630 --disable-xgetdefault. 947 --disable-xgetdefault.
631 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 948 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
632 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 949 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
633 unicode character. 950 unicode character.
634 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 951 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
635 get it wrong. 952 get it wrong.
636 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 953 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
637 954
6382.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9552.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
639 - NOTE: the name of the binary and ressources were changed in 956 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
640 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 957 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
641 settings. 958 settings.
642 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN. 959 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
643 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt. 960 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
644 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary, 961 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
682 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007). 999 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
683 - removed greek support. 1000 - removed greek support.
684 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled. 1001 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
685 - correct cursor width if !focus. 1002 - correct cursor width if !focus.
686 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch. 1003 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
687 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard block 1004 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
688 contributed. 1005 contributed.
689 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set. 1006 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
690 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty. 1007 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
691 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt". 1008 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
692 - many other minor bugfixes. 1009 - many other minor bugfixes.
693 1010
6941.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10111.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
695 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1012 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
696 new bugs, this should not change much. 1013 new bugs, this should not change much.
697 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1014 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
698 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1015 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
699 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1016 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
700 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1017 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
701 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1018 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
702 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1019 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
703 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1020 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
704 1021
741 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts 1058 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
742 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters 1059 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
743 - much faster x11 font selection 1060 - much faster x11 font selection
744 1061
7451.2 2003-12-24 10621.2 2003-12-24
746 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug form the original rxvt 1063 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
747 - better font matching 1064 - better font matching
748 - better memory management (less memory) 1065 - better memory management (less memory)
749 - new fallback: gnu freefont 1066 - new fallback: gnu freefont
750 1067
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