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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, pango!
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, motion hints?)
10TODO: default selection should handle = better
11WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
12WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
6TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 13WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
7WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences. 14DUMB: support tex fonts
8WISH: searchable backlog
9WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (my dream project)
10WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
11WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
12 15
136.0 16 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
17 click.
18 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
19 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
20 improve size hint setting.
21 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
22 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
23 to correctly position their preedit window.
24 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
25 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
26 in empts spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
27 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
28 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
29 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
30
317.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
32 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
33 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
34 resource value.
35 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
36 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
37 relevant tab window.
38 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
39 (initial patch by hednod).
40 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
41 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
42 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
43 the benefit of automove-background.
44 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
45 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
46 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
47 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
48 __linux__.
49 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
50 the colour components.
51 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
52 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
53 - more colour rtt optimisations.
54 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
55 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
56 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
57 - minor libptytty update.
58
597.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
60 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
61 detection:
62 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
63 - overlap detection was improved.
64 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
65 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
66 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
67 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
68 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
69 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
70 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
71 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
72 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
73 broken.
74 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
75 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
76 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
77 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
78 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
79 (patch by Paco-Paco).
80 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
81 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
82 an "[alpha]" prefix.
83 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
84 transparent. Long Live Xft!
85 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
86 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
87 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
88 on a pseudocolor screen.
89 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
90 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
91 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
92 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
93 - small configure updates.
94 - further RTT optimisations.
95
967.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
97 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
98 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
99 - small configure updates for libptytty.
100 - fixed version options: line output.
101 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
102
1037.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
104 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
105 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
106 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
107 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
108 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
109 selection extension.
110 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
111 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
112 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
113 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
114 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
115 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
116 needs the careful rendering mode.
117 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
118 too wide and needs careful mode.
119 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
120 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
121 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
122 atoms only once per display.
123 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
124 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
125 xterm.
126
1277.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
128 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
129 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
130 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
131 ctrl-shift-672c).
132 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
133 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
134 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
135 the primary screen.
136 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
137 could lead to an assertion failure.
138 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
139 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
140 via mouse clicks.
141 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
142 with shift - mouse button 2.
143 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
144 in non-synthetic events.
145 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
146 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
147 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
148 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
149 whole urxvt[d] process.
150 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
151 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
152 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
153 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
154
1557.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
156 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
157 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
158 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
159 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
160 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
161 special privileges.
162 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
163 itself.
164 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
165 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
166 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
167 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
168 similar stuff.
169 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
170 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
171 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
172 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
173 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
174 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
175 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
176 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
177 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
178 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
179 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
180 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
181 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
182 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
183 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
184 to set the window title.
185 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
186 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
187 at the wrong time.
188 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
189 anymore.
190 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
191 - nuked QNX support.
192 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
193 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
194 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
195 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
196
1977.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
198 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
199 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
200 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
201 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
202 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
203 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
204 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
205 and much much more.
206 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
207 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
208 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
209 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
210 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
211 setuid/setgid.
212 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
213 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
214 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
215 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
216 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
217 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
218 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
219 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
220 compatible, and not really small either.
221 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
222 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
223 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
224 to crashes.
225 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
226 colours.
227 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
228 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
229
2306.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
231 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
232 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
233 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
234 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
235 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
236 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
237 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
238 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
239 by Mikachu).
240 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
241 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
242 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
243 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
244 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
245 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
246 - fix directory permissions on install.
247 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
248 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
249 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
250 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
251 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
252
2536.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
254 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
255 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
256 Chuck Blake.
257 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
258 obscure the mouse cursor position.
259 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
260 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
261 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
262 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
263 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
264 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
265 transfer efficiency.
266 - further minor cleanups.
267
2686.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
269 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
270 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
271 while the user still drags.
272 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
273 not drawn correctly.
274 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
275 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
276 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
277 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
278 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
279 stripping whitespace.
280 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
281 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
282
2836.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
14 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again. 284 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
15 - enable slow link support by default. 285 - enable slow link support by default.
286 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
287 (also a bug in original rxvt).
288 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
289 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
290 partial patch).
291 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
292 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
293 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
294 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
295 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
296 - implement -hold option.
16 - _major_ rewrite of internal line handling logic: 297 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
17# - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged. 298 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
18 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling). 299 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
19 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal. 300 - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
20 - slight overall speed improvements. 301 - slight overall speed improvements.
21 - considerably improved code clarity. 302 - considerably improved code clarity.
22 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback 303 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
54 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do 335 - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
55 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't 336 not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
56 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes). 337 even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
57 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines 338 - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
58 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra 339 could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
59 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in oriignal rxvt). 340 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
60 341
615.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005 3425.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
62 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised 343 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
63 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected). 344 every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
64 Reported by Jasmin Buchert. 345 Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
641 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 922 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
642 --disable-xgetdefault. 923 --disable-xgetdefault.
643 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 924 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
644 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 925 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
645 unicode character. 926 unicode character.
646 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 927 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
647 get it wrong. 928 get it wrong.
648 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 929 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
649 930
6502.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9312.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
651 - NOTE: the name of the binary and ressources were changed in 932 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
652 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 933 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
653 settings. 934 settings.
654 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN. 935 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
655 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt. 936 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
656 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary, 937 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
694 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007). 975 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
695 - removed greek support. 976 - removed greek support.
696 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled. 977 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
697 - correct cursor width if !focus. 978 - correct cursor width if !focus.
698 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch. 979 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
699 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard block 980 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
700 contributed. 981 contributed.
701 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set. 982 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
702 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty. 983 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
703 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt". 984 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
704 - many other minor bugfixes. 985 - many other minor bugfixes.
705 986
7061.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 9871.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
707 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 988 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
708 new bugs, this should not change much. 989 new bugs, this should not change much.
709 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 990 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
710 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 991 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
711 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 992 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
712 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 993 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
713 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 994 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
714 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 995 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
715 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 996 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
716 997
753 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts 1034 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
754 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters 1035 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
755 - much faster x11 font selection 1036 - much faster x11 font selection
756 1037
7571.2 2003-12-24 10381.2 2003-12-24
758 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug form the original rxvt 1039 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
759 - better font matching 1040 - better font matching
760 - better memory management (less memory) 1041 - better memory management (less memory)
761 - new fallback: gnu freefont 1042 - new fallback: gnu freefont
762 1043
7631.1 2003-12-18 10441.1 2003-12-18

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