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3TODO: fix the flaw in the url regex jost pointed out
4TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve
5TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
6TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
7TODO: split perl documentation and urxvt.pm into separate files
3TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 8TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
4TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
5TODO: safer command: keymap processing.
6TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 9TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
7TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. 10TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
11TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?)
12TODO: default selection should handle = better
13TODO: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf
14WISH: skipscroll option
15WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
16WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
17WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
8TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 18WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
9WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences. (obsoleted by embedded perl) 19DUMB: support tex fonts
10WISH: searchable backlog (obsoleted by embedded perl)
11WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (obsoleted by embedded perl)
12WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
13WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
14 20
21 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
22 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
23 generic osc_seq.
24 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
25 were invoked recursively.
26
277.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
28 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
29 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
30 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
31 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
32 click, and eats the click.
33 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
34 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
35 refresh bugs please.
36 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
37 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
38 improve size hint setting.
39 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
40 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
41 to correctly position their preedit window.
42 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
43 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
44 in empts spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
45 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
46 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
47 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
48 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
49 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
50 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
51 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
52 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
53 (reported by Paco-Paco).
54 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
55 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
56 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
57
587.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
59 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
60 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
61 resource value.
62 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
63 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
64 relevant tab window.
65 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
66 (initial patch by hednod).
67 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
68 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
69 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
70 the benefit of automove-background.
71 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
72 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
73 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
74 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
75 __linux__.
76 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
77 the colour components.
78 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
79 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
80 - more colour rtt optimisations.
81 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
82 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
83 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
84 - minor libptytty update.
85
867.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
87 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
88 detection:
89 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
90 - overlap detection was improved.
91 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
92 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
93 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
94 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
95 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
96 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
97 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
98 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
99 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
100 broken.
101 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
102 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
103 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
104 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
105 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
106 (patch by Paco-Paco).
107 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
108 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
109 an "[alpha]" prefix.
110 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
111 transparent. Long Live Xft!
112 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
113 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
114 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
115 on a pseudocolor screen.
116 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
117 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
118 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
119 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
120 - small configure updates.
121 - further RTT optimisations.
122
1237.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
124 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
125 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
126 - small configure updates for libptytty.
127 - fixed version options: line output.
128 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
129
1307.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
131 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
132 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
133 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
134 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
135 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
136 selection extension.
137 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
138 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
139 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
140 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
141 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
142 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
143 needs the careful rendering mode.
144 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
145 too wide and needs careful mode.
146 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
147 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
148 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
149 atoms only once per display.
150 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
151 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
152 xterm.
153
1547.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
155 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
156 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
157 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
158 ctrl-shift-672c).
159 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
160 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
161 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
162 the primary screen.
163 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
164 could lead to an assertion failure.
165 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
166 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
167 via mouse clicks.
168 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
169 with shift - mouse button 2.
170 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
171 in non-synthetic events.
172 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
173 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
174 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
175 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
176 whole urxvt[d] process.
177 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
178 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
179 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
180 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
181
1827.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
183 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
184 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
185 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
186 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
187 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
188 special privileges.
189 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
190 itself.
191 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
192 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
193 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
194 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
195 similar stuff.
196 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
197 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
198 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
199 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
200 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
201 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
202 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
203 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
204 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
205 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
206 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
207 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
208 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
209 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
210 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
211 to set the window title.
212 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
213 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
214 at the wrong time.
215 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
216 anymore.
217 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
218 - nuked QNX support.
219 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
220 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
221 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
222 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
223
2247.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
225 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
226 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
227 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
228 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
229 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
230 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
231 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
232 and much much more.
233 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
234 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
235 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
236 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
237 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
238 setuid/setgid.
239 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
240 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
241 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
242 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
243 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
244 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
245 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
246 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
247 compatible, and not really small either.
248 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
249 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
250 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
251 to crashes.
252 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
253 colours.
254 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
255 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
256
2576.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
258 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
259 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
260 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
261 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
262 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
263 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
264 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
265 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
266 by Mikachu).
15 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more 267 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
16 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback, menus 268 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
17 etc. See the urxvtperl manpage. 269 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
18 - improved sched_yield support. 270 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
271 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
272 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
273 - fix directory permissions on install.
274 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
275 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
276 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
277 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
278 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
19 279
206.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006 2806.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
21 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink 281 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
22 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by 282 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
23 Chuck Blake. 283 Chuck Blake.
689 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 949 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
690 --disable-xgetdefault. 950 --disable-xgetdefault.
691 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 951 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
692 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 952 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
693 unicode character. 953 unicode character.
694 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 954 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
695 get it wrong. 955 get it wrong.
696 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 956 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
697 957
6982.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9582.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
699 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 959 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
700 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 960 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
701 settings. 961 settings.
752 - many other minor bugfixes. 1012 - many other minor bugfixes.
753 1013
7541.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10141.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
755 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1015 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
756 new bugs, this should not change much. 1016 new bugs, this should not change much.
757 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1017 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
758 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1018 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
759 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1019 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
760 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1020 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
761 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1021 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
762 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1022 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
763 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1023 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
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