--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/11 23:08:54 1.513 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2006/01/21 21:23:38 1.560 @@ -1,20 +1,84 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title -TODO: move pty/tty handling into a fork'ed server and drop all privs +TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable. +TODO: simplify selection_request and make it callable from perl. +TODO: split perl documnetation and urxvt.pm into separate files +TODO: nuke rxvt_privaction and related garbage TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent. TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. -TODO: clarify and get rid of SMOOTH_REFRESH etc. +TODO: rxvt -name urxvt-girly /// leave pixel droppings +TODO: distributed clipboard example +TODO: http://www.issociate.de/board/post/274416/HOWTO:_Mouse_editing_with_readline_in_xterm.html +TODO: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/e538d04a118174d3 +WISH: perl extension for background image loading and moving the origin. WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif. or maybe use perl and an overlay... WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender. WISH: support tex fonts -7.0 -TODO: run external commands more sytematically (using $self->env etc.) -TODO: document searchable-scorllback hotkey -TODO: double-click and right-extend +7.2 + - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused + non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection. + - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal. + - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning + via mouse clicks. + - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection + with shift - mouse button 2 + - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates + in non-synthetic events. + - the non-terminfo visual bell is now done asynchronously, so + continous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the + while urxvt[d] process. + - support some bsd makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet). + - work around bugs in FreeBSDs gcc. + - implemented some *bsd fixes in configure. + - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol. + +7.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006 + - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been + improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process + and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This + makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code + and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with + special privileges. + - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid + itself. + - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get + the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap. + - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to + e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or + similar stuff. + - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't + span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps + for programs displaying a status line at the bottom. + - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct. + - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection + code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases + :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant. + - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now + being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started. + - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus, + as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm). + - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD. + - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure + (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description, + to set the window title. + - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes + some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables + at the wrong time. + - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support + anymore. + - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH. + - nuked QNX support. + - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code. + - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order. + - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom. + - iom extended to support listening for child exits. + +7.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ. - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and @@ -34,8 +98,7 @@ - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak. - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast. - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic. - - applied better configure support for openpty and other pty stuff - (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta). - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler. - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really compatible, and not really small either. @@ -808,9 +871,9 @@ 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing new bugs, this should not change much. - - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. - - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. - - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. + - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. + - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. + - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. - blinking and selections work slightly better now. - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.