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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: line-rewrapping on resize
9WISH: searchable backlog
10WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (my dream project)
11WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
12WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
13 14
15 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
16 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
17 resource value.
18 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
19 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
20 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
21 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
22 __linux__.
23 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
24 the colour components.
25 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
26 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
27 - more colour rtt optimisations.
28 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
29 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
30
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32 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
33 detection:
34 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
35 - overlap detection was improved.
36 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
37 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
38 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
39 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
40 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
41 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
42 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
43 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
44 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
45 broken.
46 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
47 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
48 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
49 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
50 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
51 (patch by Paco-Paco).
52 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
53 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
54 an "[alpha]" prefix.
55 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
56 transparent. Long Live Xft!
57 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
58 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
59 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
60 on a pseudocolor screen.
61 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
62 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
63 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
64 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
65 - small configure updates.
66 - further RTT optimisations.
67
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69 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
70 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
71 - small configure updates for libptytty.
72 - fixed version options: line output.
73 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
74
757.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
76 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
77 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
78 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
79 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
80 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
81 selection extension.
82 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
83 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
84 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
85 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
86 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
87 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
88 needs the careful rendering mode.
89 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
90 too wide and needs careful mode.
91 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
92 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
93 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
94 atoms only once per display.
95 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
96 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
97 xterm.
98
997.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
100 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
101 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
102 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
103 ctrl-shift-672c).
104 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
105 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
106 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
107 the primary screen.
108 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
109 could lead to an assertion failure.
110 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
111 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
112 via mouse clicks.
113 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
114 with shift - mouse button 2.
115 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
116 in non-synthetic events.
117 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
118 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
119 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
120 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
121 whole urxvt[d] process.
122 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
123 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
124 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
125 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
126
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128 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
129 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
130 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
131 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
132 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
133 special privileges.
134 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
135 itself.
136 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
137 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
138 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
139 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
140 similar stuff.
141 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
142 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
143 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
144 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
145 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
146 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
147 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
148 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
149 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
150 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
151 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
152 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
153 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
154 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
155 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
156 to set the window title.
157 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
158 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
159 at the wrong time.
160 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
161 anymore.
162 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
163 - nuked QNX support.
164 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
165 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
166 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
167 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
168
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170 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
171 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
172 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
173 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
174 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
175 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
176 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
177 and much much more.
178 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
179 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
180 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
181 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
182 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
183 setuid/setgid.
184 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
185 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
186 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
187 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
188 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
189 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
190 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
191 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
192 compatible, and not really small either.
193 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
194 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
195 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
196 to crashes.
197 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
198 colours.
199 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
200 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
201
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203 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
204 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
205 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
206 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
207 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
208 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
209 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
210 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
211 by Mikachu).
212 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
213 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
214 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
215 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
216 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
217 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
218 - fix directory permissions on install.
219 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
220 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
221 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
222 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
223 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
224
2256.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
226 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
227 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
228 Chuck Blake.
229 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
230 obscure the mouse cursor position.
231 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
232 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
233 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
234 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
235 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
236 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
237 transfer efficiency.
238 - further minor cleanups.
239
2406.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
241 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
242 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
243 while the user still drags.
244 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
245 not drawn correctly.
246 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
247 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
248 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
249 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
250 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
251 stripping whitespace.
252 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
253 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
254
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14 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again. 256 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
15 - enable slow link support by default. 257 - enable slow link support by default.
258 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
259 (also a bug in original rxvt).
260 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
261 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
262 partial patch).
263 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
264 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
265 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
266 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
267 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
268 - implement -hold option.
16 - _major_ rewrite of internal line handling logic: 269 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
17# - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged. 270 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
18# - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling). 271 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
19# - slightly less memory usage. 272 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
20# - slight overall speed improvements. 273 - slight overall speed improvements.
274 - considerably improved code clarity.
21 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback 275 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
22 buffer. 276 buffer.
23 277
245.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005 2785.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
25 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix. 279 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
53 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do 307 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
54 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't 308 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
55 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes). 309 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
56 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines 310 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
57 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra 311 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
58 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in oriignal rxvt). 312 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
59 313
605.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005 3145.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
61 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised 315 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
62 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected). 316 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
63 Reported by Jasmin Buchert. 317 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
640 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 894 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
641 --disable-xgetdefault. 895 --disable-xgetdefault.
642 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 896 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
643 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 897 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
644 unicode character. 898 unicode character.
645 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 899 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
646 get it wrong. 900 get it wrong.
647 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 901 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
648 902
6492.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9032.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
650 - NOTE: the name of the binary and ressources were changed in 904 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
651 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 905 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
652 settings. 906 settings.
653 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN. 907 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
654 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt. 908 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
655 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary, 909 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
693 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007). 947 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
694 - removed greek support. 948 - removed greek support.
695 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled. 949 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
696 - correct cursor width if !focus. 950 - correct cursor width if !focus.
697 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch. 951 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
698 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard block 952 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
699 contributed. 953 contributed.
700 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set. 954 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
701 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty. 955 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
702 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt". 956 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
703 - many other minor bugfixes. 957 - many other minor bugfixes.
704 958
7051.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 9591.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
706 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 960 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
707 new bugs, this should not change much. 961 new bugs, this should not change much.
708 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 962 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
709 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 963 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
710 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 964 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
711 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 965 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
712 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 966 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
713 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 967 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
714 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 968 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
715 969
752 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts 1006 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
753 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters 1007 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
754 - much faster x11 font selection 1008 - much faster x11 font selection
755 1009
7561.2 2003-12-24 10101.2 2003-12-24
757 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug form the original rxvt 1011 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
758 - better font matching 1012 - better font matching
759 - better memory management (less memory) 1013 - better memory management (less memory)
760 - new fallback: gnu freefont 1014 - new fallback: gnu freefont
761 1015
7621.1 2003-12-18 10161.1 2003-12-18

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