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3TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
4TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
5TODO: simplify selection_request and make it callable from perl.
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
5TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. 9TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
10WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
11WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
6TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 12WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
7WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences. 13DUMB: 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 14
15THINK: struct passwd *userinfo; /* defined in pwd.h + if ((userinfo = getpwuid(getuid())) != NULL) + shell = strdup(userinfo->pw_shell); /* retrieve current shell */
16
17TODO: xim "how to" faq entry
18TODO: reorganize faq
19
207.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
21 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
22 detection:
23 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
24 - overlap detection was improved.
25 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
26 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
27 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
28 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
29 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
30 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
31 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
32 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
33 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
34 broken.
35 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
36 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
37 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
38 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
39 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
40 (patch by Paco-Paco).
41 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
42 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
43 an "[alpha]" prefix.
44 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
45 transparent. Long Live Xft!
46 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
47 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
48 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
49 on a pseudocolor screen.
50 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
51 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
52 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
53 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
54 - small configure updates.
55 - further RTT optimisations.
56
577.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
58 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
59 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
60 - small configure updates for libptytty.
61 - fixed version options: line output.
62 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
63
647.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
65 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
66 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
67 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
68 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
69 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
70 selection extension.
71 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
72 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
73 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
74 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
75 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
76 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
77 needs the careful rendering mode.
78 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
79 too wide and needs careful mode.
80 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
81 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
82 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
83 atoms only once per display.
84 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
85 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
86 xterm.
87
887.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
89 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
90 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
91 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
92 ctrl-shift-672c).
93 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
94 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
95 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
96 the primary screen.
97 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
98 could lead to an assertion failure.
99 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
100 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
101 via mouse clicks.
102 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
103 with shift - mouse button 2.
104 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
105 in non-synthetic events.
106 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
107 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
108 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
109 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
110 whole urxvt[d] process.
111 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
112 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
113 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
114 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
115
1167.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
117 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
118 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
119 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
120 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
121 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
122 special privileges.
123 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
124 itself.
125 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
126 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
127 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
128 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
129 similar stuff.
130 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
131 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
132 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
133 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
134 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
135 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
136 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
137 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
138 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
139 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
140 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
141 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
142 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
143 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
144 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
145 to set the window title.
146 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
147 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
148 at the wrong time.
149 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
150 anymore.
151 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
152 - nuked QNX support.
153 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
154 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
155 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
156 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
157
1587.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
159 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
160 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
161 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
162 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
163 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
164 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
165 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
166 and much much more.
167 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
168 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
169 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
170 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
171 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
172 setuid/setgid.
173 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
174 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
175 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
176 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
177 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
178 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
179 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
180 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
181 compatible, and not really small either.
182 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
183 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
184 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
185 to crashes.
186 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
187 colours.
188 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
189 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
190
1916.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
192 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
193 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
194 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
195 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
196 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
197 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
198 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
199 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
200 by Mikachu).
201 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
202 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
203 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
204 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
205 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
206 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
207 - fix directory permissions on install.
208 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
209 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
210 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
211 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
212 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
213
2146.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
215 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
216 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
217 Chuck Blake.
218 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
219 obscure the mouse cursor position.
220 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
221 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
222 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
223 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
224 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
225 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
226 transfer efficiency.
227 - further minor cleanups.
228
2296.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
230 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
231 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
232 while the user still drags.
233 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
234 not drawn correctly.
235 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
236 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
237 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
238 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
239 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
240 stripping whitespace.
241 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
242 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
243
2446.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
14 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again. 245 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
246 - enable slow link support by default.
247 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
248 (also a bug in original rxvt).
249 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
250 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
251 partial patch).
252 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
253 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
254 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
255 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
256 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
257 - implement -hold option.
258 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
259 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
260 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
261 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
262 - slight overall speed improvements.
263 - considerably improved code clarity.
264 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
265 buffer.
15 266
165.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005 2675.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
17 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix. 268 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
18 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal 269 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
19 (matters only for rxvtd). 270 (matters only for rxvtd).
45 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do 296 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
46 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't 297 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
47 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes). 298 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
48 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines 299 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
49 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra 300 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
50 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in oriignal rxvt). 301 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
51 302
525.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005 3035.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
53 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised 304 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
54 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected). 305 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
55 Reported by Jasmin Buchert. 306 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
632 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 883 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
633 --disable-xgetdefault. 884 --disable-xgetdefault.
634 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 885 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
635 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 886 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
636 unicode character. 887 unicode character.
637 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 888 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
638 get it wrong. 889 get it wrong.
639 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 890 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
640 891
6412.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 8922.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
642 - NOTE: the name of the binary and ressources were changed in 893 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
643 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 894 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
644 settings. 895 settings.
645 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN. 896 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
646 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt. 897 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
647 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary, 898 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
685 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007). 936 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
686 - removed greek support. 937 - removed greek support.
687 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled. 938 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
688 - correct cursor width if !focus. 939 - correct cursor width if !focus.
689 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch. 940 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
690 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard block 941 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
691 contributed. 942 contributed.
692 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set. 943 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
693 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty. 944 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
694 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt". 945 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
695 - many other minor bugfixes. 946 - many other minor bugfixes.
696 947
6971.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 9481.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
698 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 949 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
699 new bugs, this should not change much. 950 new bugs, this should not change much.
700 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 951 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
701 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 952 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
702 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 953 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
703 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 954 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
704 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 955 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
705 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 956 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
706 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 957 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
707 958
744 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts 995 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
745 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters 996 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
746 - much faster x11 font selection 997 - much faster x11 font selection
747 998
7481.2 2003-12-24 9991.2 2003-12-24
749 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug form the original rxvt 1000 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
750 - better font matching 1001 - better font matching
751 - better memory management (less memory) 1002 - better memory management (less memory)
752 - new fallback: gnu freefont 1003 - new fallback: gnu freefont
753 1004
7541.1 2003-12-18 10051.1 2003-12-18

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