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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: split perl documentation and urxvt.pm into separate files
1TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 6TODO: 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 7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
5TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. 8TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
9TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness?)
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: 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 14
136.1 15TODO: option popup hook, make some exts switchable
16TODO: constant offste with automove
17TODO: rework colors and blabla section
18
19 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
20 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
21 resource value.
22 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
23 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
24 relevant tab window.
25 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
26 (initial patch by hednod).
27 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
28 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
29 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
30 __linux__.
31 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
32 the colour components.
33 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
34 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
35 - more colour rtt optimisations.
36 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
37 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
38 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
39 the benefit of automove-background.
40 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
41
427.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
43 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
44 detection:
45 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
46 - overlap detection was improved.
47 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
48 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
49 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
50 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
51 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
52 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
53 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
54 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
55 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
56 broken.
57 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
58 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
59 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
60 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
61 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
62 (patch by Paco-Paco).
63 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
64 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
65 an "[alpha]" prefix.
66 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
67 transparent. Long Live Xft!
68 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
69 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
70 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
71 on a pseudocolor screen.
72 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
73 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
74 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
75 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
76 - small configure updates.
77 - further RTT optimisations.
78
797.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
80 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
81 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
82 - small configure updates for libptytty.
83 - fixed version options: line output.
84 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
85
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87 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
88 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
89 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
90 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
91 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
92 selection extension.
93 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
94 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
95 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
96 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
97 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
98 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
99 needs the careful rendering mode.
100 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
101 too wide and needs careful mode.
102 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
103 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
104 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
105 atoms only once per display.
106 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
107 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
108 xterm.
109
1107.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
111 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
112 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
113 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
114 ctrl-shift-672c).
115 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
116 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
117 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
118 the primary screen.
119 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
120 could lead to an assertion failure.
121 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
122 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
123 via mouse clicks.
124 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
125 with shift - mouse button 2.
126 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
127 in non-synthetic events.
128 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
129 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
130 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
131 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
132 whole urxvt[d] process.
133 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
134 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
135 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
136 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
137
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139 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
140 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
141 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
142 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
143 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
144 special privileges.
145 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
146 itself.
147 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
148 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
149 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
150 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
151 similar stuff.
152 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
153 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
154 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
155 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
156 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
157 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
158 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
159 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
160 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
161 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
162 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
163 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
164 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
165 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
166 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
167 to set the window title.
168 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
169 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
170 at the wrong time.
171 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
172 anymore.
173 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
174 - nuked QNX support.
175 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
176 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
177 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
178 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
179
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181 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
182 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
183 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
184 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
185 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
186 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
187 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
188 and much much more.
189 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
190 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
191 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
192 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
193 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
194 setuid/setgid.
195 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
196 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
197 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
198 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
199 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
200 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
201 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
202 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
203 compatible, and not really small either.
204 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
205 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
206 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
207 to crashes.
208 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
209 colours.
210 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
211 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
212
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214 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
215 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
216 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
217 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
218 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
219 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
220 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
221 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
222 by Mikachu).
223 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
224 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
225 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
226 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
227 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
228 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
229 - fix directory permissions on install.
230 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
231 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
232 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
233 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
234 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
235
2366.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
237 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
238 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
239 Chuck Blake.
240 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
241 obscure the mouse cursor position.
242 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
243 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
244 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
245 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
246 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
247 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
248 transfer efficiency.
249 - further minor cleanups.
250
2516.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
14 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.). 252 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
15 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback 253 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
16 while the user still drags. 254 while the user still drags.
17 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were 255 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
18 not drawn correctly. 256 not drawn correctly.
19 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading 257 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
20 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults. 258 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
259 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
260 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
261 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
262 stripping whitespace.
263 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
264 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
21 265
226.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005 2666.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
23 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again. 267 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
24 - enable slow link support by default. 268 - enable slow link support by default.
25 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions 269 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
661 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 905 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
662 --disable-xgetdefault. 906 --disable-xgetdefault.
663 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 907 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
664 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 908 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
665 unicode character. 909 unicode character.
666 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 910 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
667 get it wrong. 911 get it wrong.
668 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 912 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
669 913
6702.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9142.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
671 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 915 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
672 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 916 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
673 settings. 917 settings.
724 - many other minor bugfixes. 968 - many other minor bugfixes.
725 969
7261.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 9701.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
727 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 971 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
728 new bugs, this should not change much. 972 new bugs, this should not change much.
729 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 973 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
730 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 974 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
731 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 975 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
732 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 976 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
733 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 977 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
734 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 978 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
735 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 979 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
736 980

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