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3TODO: move iso14755 box away from the mouse 3TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve
4TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 4TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
5TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent. 5TODO: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events.
6TODO: safer command: keymap processing. 6TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
8TODO: 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, motion hints?)
10TODO: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines
11 => when setting the constraints, the wm might (correctly)
12 resize the outer window, which might result in a smaller window overall.
13 or something like that. guys, send me a patch.
14TODO: zeroing scorllback buffer should free memory
15WISH: skipscroll option
16WISH: selection-color-pair instead of reverse video
17WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
18WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
19WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
9TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 20WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep scrollbar look.
10WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences. 21WISH: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf
11WISH: searchable backlog 22DUMB: support tex fonts
12WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (my dream project)
13WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
14WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
15 23
166.2 24TODO: outline cursor color broken? http://bereft.net/rxvt-cursor2.png http://bereft.net/rxvt-cursor1.png
17 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty (not GNU/Linux, probably 25TODO: add ctype locale info to some menu to aid the "support"
18 most BSDs), privileges weren't dropped before opening the pty, 26TODO: (exg) rxvt -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1 U+39b+U+30a wipes out 39b
19 resulting in wrong permissions on the pseudo terminal. 278.0
20 Reported and fixed by Ryan Beasley. 28 - specified fonts were incorrectly morphed to bold/italic according to the
29 basefont, even if explicitly specified (tracked down by tpope).
30 - fixed urxvt::strwidth to calculate width in the same way as screen.C.
31 - fix a crash caused by passing negative widths to overlay functions.
32 - added 'matcher' extension by tpope, replacing the mark-urls extension.
33 - improve url regex to match anything www.* (tpope).
34 - give proper diagnostic when RXVT_SOCKET is too long instead of
35 corrupting the stack (patch by exg).
36 - urxvtd no longer crashes when the client sends an inaccessible
37 working directory (reported by Roland Baer, possibly fixes gentoo
38 bug #143985).
39 - fixed many minor issues reported by Roland Baer.
40 - Leonid Khramov spotted a minor glitch in rxvtfont.C that
41 should not have any consequences, but was buggy nonetheless.
42 - update to libptytty-1.0.
43
447.9 Mon Aug 7 18:16:07 CEST 2006
45 - fix the crashing bug people encountered with 7.8 + urxvtd + perl
46 + transparency. Ought to fix debian bug #380348.
47 - fix urxvtc.1.pod: it actually claimed -pty-fd would not work. But
48 it does! :->
49 - rxvt_fatal() in case the locale string is too long for our static buffer.
50 - fixed many, many, typos in the manpages (patch supplied by ves).
51
527.8 Mon Jul 17 21:00:46 CEST 2006
53 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults,
54 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from
55 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my
56 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults
57 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources.
58 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake
59 terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl).
60 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and
61 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
62 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
63 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search
64 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an
65 uppercase character.
66 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
67 - re-enabled highlightcolor support with --enable-frills, based on
68 a patch by Martin Stubenschrott.
69 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
70 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
71 - strategically add # to the url-match regexes, as we really want to
72 match common URIs not common URLs. Reported by Aaron Griffin.
73 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
74 generic osc_seq.
75 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
76 were invoked recursively.
77 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
78 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
79 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
80 - apply colorUL only when the text colour is the default fg
81 (patch by Wu Fengguang).
82 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there
83 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
84 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
85 by omatunto_.
86 - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't
87 follow C++ closely enough.
88 - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger.
89 - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang.
90 - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the
91 bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays.
92
937.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
94 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
95 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
96 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
97 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
98 click, and eats the click.
99 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
100 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
101 refresh bugs please.
102 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
103 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
104 improve size hint setting.
105 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
106 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
107 to correctly position their preedit window.
108 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
109 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
110 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
111 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
112 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
113 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
114 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
115 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
116 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
117 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
118 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
119 (reported by Paco-Paco).
120 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
121 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
122 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
123
1247.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
125 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
126 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
127 resource value.
128 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
129 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
130 relevant tab window.
131 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
132 (initial patch by hednod).
133 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
134 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
135 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
136 the benefit of automove-background.
137 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
138 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
139 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
140 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
141 __linux__.
142 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
143 the colour components.
144 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
145 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
146 - more colour rtt optimisations.
147 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
148 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
149 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
150 - minor libptytty update.
151
1527.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
153 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
154 detection:
155 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
156 - overlap detection was improved.
157 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
158 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
159 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
160 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
161 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
162 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
163 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
164 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
165 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
166 broken.
167 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
168 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
169 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
170 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
171 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
172 (patch by Paco-Paco).
173 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
174 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
175 an "[alpha]" prefix.
176 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
177 transparent. Long Live Xft!
178 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
179 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
180 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
181 on a pseudocolor screen.
182 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
183 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
184 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
185 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
186 - small configure updates.
187 - further RTT optimisations.
188 - backported clean-up patches for makefiles and documentation from
189 the debian package.
190 - updated doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file. It's still not maintained here,
191 but much newer than the old one.
192
1937.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
194 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
195 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
196 - small configure updates for libptytty.
197 - fixed version options: line output.
198 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
199
2007.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
201 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
202 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
203 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
204 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
205 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
206 selection extension.
207 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
208 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
209 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
210 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
211 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
212 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
213 needs the careful rendering mode.
214 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
215 too wide and needs careful mode.
216 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
217 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
218 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
219 atoms only once per display.
220 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
221 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
222 xterm.
223
2247.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
225 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
226 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
227 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
228 ctrl-shift-672c).
229 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
230 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
231 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
232 the primary screen.
233 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
234 could lead to an assertion failure.
235 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
236 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
237 via mouse clicks.
238 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
239 with shift - mouse button 2.
240 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
241 in non-synthetic events.
242 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
243 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
244 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
245 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
246 whole urxvt[d] process.
247 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
248 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
249 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
250 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
251
2527.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
253 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
254 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
255 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
256 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
257 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
258 special privileges.
259 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
260 itself.
261 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
262 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
263 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
264 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
265 similar stuff.
266 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
267 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
268 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
269 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
270 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
271 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
272 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
273 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
274 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
275 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
276 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
277 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
278 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
279 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
280 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
281 to set the window title.
282 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
283 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
284 at the wrong time.
285 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
286 anymore.
287 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
288 - nuked QNX support.
289 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
290 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
291 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
292 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
293
2947.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
295 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
296 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
297 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
298 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
299 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
300 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
301 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
302 and much much more.
303 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
304 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
305 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
306 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
307 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
308 setuid/setgid.
309 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
310 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
311 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
312 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
313 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
314 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
315 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
316 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
317 compatible, and not really small either.
318 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
319 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
320 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
321 to crashes.
322 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
323 colours.
324 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
325 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
326
3276.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
328 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
329 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
330 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
331 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
332 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
333 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
334 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
335 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
336 by Mikachu).
337 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
338 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
339 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
340 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
341 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
342 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
343 - fix directory permissions on install.
344 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
345 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
346 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
347 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
348 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
349
3506.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
21 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink 351 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
22 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by 352 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
23 Chuck Blake. 353 Chuck Blake.
24 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would 354 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
25 obscure the mouse cursor position. 355 obscure the mouse cursor position.
26 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly 356 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
27 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc 357 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
28 on a few architectures). Reported by darix. 358 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
359 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
360 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
361 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
362 transfer efficiency.
29 - further minor cleanups. 363 - further minor cleanups.
30 364
316.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005 3656.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
32 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.). 366 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
33 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback 367 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
685 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 1019 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
686 --disable-xgetdefault. 1020 --disable-xgetdefault.
687 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 1021 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
688 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 1022 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
689 unicode character. 1023 unicode character.
690 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 1024 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
691 get it wrong. 1025 get it wrong.
692 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 1026 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
693 1027
6942.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 10282.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
695 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 1029 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
696 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 1030 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
697 settings. 1031 settings.
748 - many other minor bugfixes. 1082 - many other minor bugfixes.
749 1083
7501.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10841.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
751 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1085 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
752 new bugs, this should not change much. 1086 new bugs, this should not change much.
753 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1087 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
754 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1088 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
755 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1089 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
756 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1090 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
757 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1091 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
758 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1092 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
759 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1093 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
760 1094

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