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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.
10TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness?)
11WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
12WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
6TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 13WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
7WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences. 14DUMB: support tex fonts
8WISH: searchable backlog
9WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (my dream project)
10WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
11WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
12 15
136.1 16TODO: xim "how to" faq entry
17
18 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
19 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
20 resource value.
21 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
22 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
23 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
24 __linux__.
25 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
26 the colour components.
27 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
28 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
29 - more colour rtt optimisations.
30 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
31 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
32
337.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
34 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
35 detection:
36 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
37 - overlap detection was improved.
38 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
39 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
40 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
41 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
42 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
43 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
44 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
45 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
46 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
47 broken.
48 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
49 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
50 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
51 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
52 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
53 (patch by Paco-Paco).
54 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
55 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
56 an "[alpha]" prefix.
57 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
58 transparent. Long Live Xft!
59 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
60 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
61 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
62 on a pseudocolor screen.
63 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
64 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
65 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
66 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
67 - small configure updates.
68 - further RTT optimisations.
69
707.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
71 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
72 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
73 - small configure updates for libptytty.
74 - fixed version options: line output.
75 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
76
777.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
78 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
79 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
80 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
81 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
82 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
83 selection extension.
84 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
85 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
86 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
87 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
88 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
89 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
90 needs the careful rendering mode.
91 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
92 too wide and needs careful mode.
93 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
94 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
95 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
96 atoms only once per display.
97 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
98 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
99 xterm.
100
1017.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
102 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
103 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
104 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
105 ctrl-shift-672c).
106 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
107 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
108 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
109 the primary screen.
110 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
111 could lead to an assertion failure.
112 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
113 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
114 via mouse clicks.
115 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
116 with shift - mouse button 2.
117 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
118 in non-synthetic events.
119 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
120 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
121 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
122 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
123 whole urxvt[d] process.
124 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
125 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
126 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
127 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
128
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130 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
131 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
132 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
133 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
134 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
135 special privileges.
136 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
137 itself.
138 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
139 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
140 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
141 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
142 similar stuff.
143 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
144 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
145 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
146 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
147 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
148 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
149 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
150 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
151 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
152 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
153 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
154 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
155 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
156 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
157 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
158 to set the window title.
159 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
160 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
161 at the wrong time.
162 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
163 anymore.
164 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
165 - nuked QNX support.
166 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
167 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
168 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
169 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
170
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172 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
173 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
174 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
175 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
176 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
177 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
178 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
179 and much much more.
180 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
181 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
182 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
183 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
184 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
185 setuid/setgid.
186 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
187 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
188 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
189 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
190 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
191 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
192 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
193 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
194 compatible, and not really small either.
195 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
196 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
197 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
198 to crashes.
199 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
200 colours.
201 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
202 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
203
2046.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
205 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
206 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
207 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
208 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
209 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
210 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
211 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
212 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
213 by Mikachu).
214 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
215 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
216 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
217 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
218 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
219 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
220 - fix directory permissions on install.
221 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
222 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
223 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
224 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
225 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
226
2276.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
228 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
229 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
230 Chuck Blake.
231 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
232 obscure the mouse cursor position.
233 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
234 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
235 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
236 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
237 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
238 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
239 transfer efficiency.
240 - further minor cleanups.
241
2426.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
14 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.). 243 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
15 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback 244 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
16 while the user still drags. 245 while the user still drags.
17 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were 246 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
18 not drawn correctly. 247 not drawn correctly.
248 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
249 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
250 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
251 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
252 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
253 stripping whitespace.
254 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
255 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
19 256
206.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005 2576.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
21 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again. 258 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
22 - enable slow link support by default. 259 - enable slow link support by default.
23 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions 260 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
659 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 896 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
660 --disable-xgetdefault. 897 --disable-xgetdefault.
661 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 898 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
662 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 899 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
663 unicode character. 900 unicode character.
664 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 901 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
665 get it wrong. 902 get it wrong.
666 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 903 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
667 904
6682.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9052.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
669 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 906 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
670 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 907 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
671 settings. 908 settings.
722 - many other minor bugfixes. 959 - many other minor bugfixes.
723 960
7241.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 9611.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
725 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 962 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
726 new bugs, this should not change much. 963 new bugs, this should not change much.
727 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 964 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
728 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 965 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
729 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 966 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
730 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 967 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
731 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 968 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
732 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 969 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
733 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 970 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
734 971

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