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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 --dsiable-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: do font request caching, might help rxvtd on some machines
4TODO: safer command: keymap processing.
5TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
6TODO: 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.
7TODO: 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.
8WISH: /usr/share/doc/libdisplaymigration0-dev/spec.txt 13DUMB: support tex fonts
9WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences. 14
10WISH: line-rewrapping on resize 15TODO: option popup hook, make some exts switchable
11WISH: searchable backlog 16TODO: constant offste with automove
12WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (my dream project) 17TODO: rework colors and blabla section
13WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif 18
14WISH: tabbed windows (hey, just use screen...) 19 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
15WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender. 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 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
28 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
29 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
30 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
31 __linux__.
32 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
33 the colour components.
34 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
35 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
36 - more colour rtt optimisations.
37 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
38 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
39 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
40 the benefit of automove-background.
41 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
42
437.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
44 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
45 detection:
46 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
47 - overlap detection was improved.
48 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
49 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
50 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
51 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
52 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
53 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
54 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
55 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
56 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
57 broken.
58 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
59 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
60 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
61 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
62 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
63 (patch by Paco-Paco).
64 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
65 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
66 an "[alpha]" prefix.
67 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
68 transparent. Long Live Xft!
69 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
70 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
71 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
72 on a pseudocolor screen.
73 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
74 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
75 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
76 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
77 - small configure updates.
78 - further RTT optimisations.
79
807.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
81 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
82 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
83 - small configure updates for libptytty.
84 - fixed version options: line output.
85 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
86
877.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
88 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
89 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
90 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
91 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
92 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
93 selection extension.
94 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
95 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
96 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
97 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
98 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
99 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
100 needs the careful rendering mode.
101 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
102 too wide and needs careful mode.
103 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
104 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
105 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
106 atoms only once per display.
107 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
108 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
109 xterm.
110
1117.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
112 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
113 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
114 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
115 ctrl-shift-672c).
116 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
117 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
118 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
119 the primary screen.
120 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
121 could lead to an assertion failure.
122 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
123 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
124 via mouse clicks.
125 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
126 with shift - mouse button 2.
127 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
128 in non-synthetic events.
129 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
130 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
131 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
132 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
133 whole urxvt[d] process.
134 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
135 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
136 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
137 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
138
1397.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
140 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
141 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
142 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
143 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
144 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
145 special privileges.
146 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
147 itself.
148 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
149 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
150 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
151 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
152 similar stuff.
153 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
154 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
155 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
156 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
157 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
158 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
159 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
160 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
161 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
162 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
163 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
164 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
165 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
166 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
167 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
168 to set the window title.
169 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
170 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
171 at the wrong time.
172 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
173 anymore.
174 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
175 - nuked QNX support.
176 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
177 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
178 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
179 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
180
1817.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
182 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
183 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
184 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
185 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
186 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
187 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
188 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
189 and much much more.
190 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
191 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
192 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
193 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
194 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
195 setuid/setgid.
196 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
197 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
198 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
199 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
200 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
201 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
202 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
203 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
204 compatible, and not really small either.
205 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
206 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
207 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
208 to crashes.
209 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
210 colours.
211 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
212 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
213
2146.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
215 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
216 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
217 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
218 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
219 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
220 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
221 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
222 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
223 by Mikachu).
224 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
225 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
226 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
227 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
228 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
229 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
230 - fix directory permissions on install.
231 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
232 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
233 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
234 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
235 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
236
2376.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
238 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
239 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
240 Chuck Blake.
241 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
242 obscure the mouse cursor position.
243 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
244 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
245 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
246 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
247 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
248 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
249 transfer efficiency.
250 - further minor cleanups.
251
2526.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
253 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
254 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
255 while the user still drags.
256 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
257 not drawn correctly.
258 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
259 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
260 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
261 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
262 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
263 stripping whitespace.
264 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
265 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
266
2676.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
268 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
269 - enable slow link support by default.
270 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
271 (also a bug in original rxvt).
272 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
273 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
274 partial patch).
275 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
276 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
277 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
278 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
279 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
280 - implement -hold option.
281 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
282 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
283 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
284 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
285 - slight overall speed improvements.
286 - considerably improved code clarity.
287 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
288 buffer.
289
2905.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
291 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
292 - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
293 (matters only for rxvtd).
294 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
295 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
296 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
16 297
175.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005 2985.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
18 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default. 299 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
19 If you want the old behaviour, try: 300 If you want the old behaviour, try:
20 configure --disable-everything <your enable options> 301 configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
38 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do 319 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
39 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't 320 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
40 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes). 321 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
41 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines 322 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
42 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra 323 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
43 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in oriignal rxvt). 324 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
44 325
455.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005 3265.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
46 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised 327 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
47 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected). 328 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
48 Reported by Jasmin Buchert. 329 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
77 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code 358 built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
78 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out. 359 will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
79 - cursor blinking now depends on frills. 360 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
80 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc). 361 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
81 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay 362 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
82 to disble it. 363 to disable it.
83 364
845.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005 3655.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
85 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long 366 - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
86 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by 367 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
87 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team). 368 Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
625 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 906 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
626 --disable-xgetdefault. 907 --disable-xgetdefault.
627 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 908 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
628 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 909 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
629 unicode character. 910 unicode character.
630 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 911 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
631 get it wrong. 912 get it wrong.
632 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 913 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
633 914
6342.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9152.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
635 - NOTE: the name of the binary and ressources were changed in 916 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
636 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 917 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
637 settings. 918 settings.
638 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN. 919 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
639 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt. 920 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
640 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary, 921 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
678 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007). 959 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
679 - removed greek support. 960 - removed greek support.
680 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled. 961 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
681 - correct cursor width if !focus. 962 - correct cursor width if !focus.
682 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch. 963 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
683 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard block 964 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
684 contributed. 965 contributed.
685 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set. 966 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
686 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty. 967 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
687 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt". 968 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
688 - many other minor bugfixes. 969 - many other minor bugfixes.
689 970
6901.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 9711.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
691 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 972 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
692 new bugs, this should not change much. 973 new bugs, this should not change much.
693 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 974 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
694 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 975 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
695 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 976 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
696 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 977 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
697 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 978 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
698 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 979 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
699 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 980 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
700 981
737 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts 1018 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
738 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters 1019 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
739 - much faster x11 font selection 1020 - much faster x11 font selection
740 1021
7411.2 2003-12-24 10221.2 2003-12-24
742 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug form the original rxvt 1023 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
743 - better font matching 1024 - better font matching
744 - better memory management (less memory) 1025 - better memory management (less memory)
745 - new fallback: gnu freefont 1026 - new fallback: gnu freefont
746 1027
7471.1 2003-12-18 10281.1 2003-12-18

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