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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: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 9TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
6TODO: 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.
7TODO: 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.
8WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif 19DUMB: support tex fonts
9WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
10 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
257.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
26 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
27 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
28 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
29 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
30 click, and eats the click.
31 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
32 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
33 refresh bugs please.
34 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
35 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
36 improve size hint setting.
37 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
38 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
39 to correctly position their preedit window.
40 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
41 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
42 in empts spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
43 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
44 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
45 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
46 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
47 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
48 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
49 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
50 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
51 (reported by Paco-Paco).
52 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
53 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
54 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
55
567.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
57 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
58 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
59 resource value.
60 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
61 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
62 relevant tab window.
63 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
64 (initial patch by hednod).
65 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
66 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
67 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
68 the benefit of automove-background.
69 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
70 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
71 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
72 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
73 __linux__.
74 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
75 the colour components.
76 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
77 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
78 - more colour rtt optimisations.
79 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
80 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
81 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
82 - minor libptytty update.
83
847.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
85 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
86 detection:
87 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
88 - overlap detection was improved.
89 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
90 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
91 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
92 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
93 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
94 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
95 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
96 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
97 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
98 broken.
99 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
100 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
101 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
102 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
103 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
104 (patch by Paco-Paco).
105 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
106 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
107 an "[alpha]" prefix.
108 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
109 transparent. Long Live Xft!
110 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
111 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
112 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
113 on a pseudocolor screen.
114 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
115 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
116 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
117 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
118 - small configure updates.
119 - further RTT optimisations.
120
1217.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
122 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
123 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
124 - small configure updates for libptytty.
125 - fixed version options: line output.
126 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
127
1287.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
129 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
130 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
131 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
132 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
133 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
134 selection extension.
135 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
136 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
137 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
138 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
139 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
140 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
141 needs the careful rendering mode.
142 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
143 too wide and needs careful mode.
144 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
145 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
146 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
147 atoms only once per display.
148 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
149 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
150 xterm.
151
1527.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
153 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
154 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
155 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
156 ctrl-shift-672c).
157 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
158 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
159 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
160 the primary screen.
161 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
162 could lead to an assertion failure.
163 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
164 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
165 via mouse clicks.
166 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
167 with shift - mouse button 2.
168 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
169 in non-synthetic events.
170 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
171 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
172 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
173 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
174 whole urxvt[d] process.
175 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
176 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
177 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
178 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
179
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181 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
182 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
183 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
184 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
185 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
186 special privileges.
187 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
188 itself.
189 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
190 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
191 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
192 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
193 similar stuff.
194 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
195 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
196 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
197 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
198 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
199 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
200 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
201 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
202 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
203 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
204 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
205 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
206 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
207 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
208 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
209 to set the window title.
210 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
211 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
212 at the wrong time.
213 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
214 anymore.
215 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
216 - nuked QNX support.
217 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
218 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
219 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
220 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
221
2227.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
223 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
224 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
225 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
226 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
227 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
228 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
229 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
230 and much much more.
231 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
232 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
233 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
234 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
235 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
236 setuid/setgid.
237 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
238 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
239 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
240 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
241 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
242 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
243 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
244 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
245 compatible, and not really small either.
246 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
247 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
248 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
249 to crashes.
250 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
251 colours.
252 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
253 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
254
2556.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
256 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
257 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
258 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
259 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
260 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
261 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
262 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
263 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
264 by Mikachu).
11 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more 265 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
12 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback, 266 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
13 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option, 267 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
14 perl*-resources and keysym resources. 268 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
269 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
270 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
15 - fix directory permissions on install. 271 - fix directory permissions on install.
16 - improved sched_yield support. 272 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
17 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations. 273 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
18 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported 274 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
19 by Mikachu) 275 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
276 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
20 277
216.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006 2786.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
22 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink 279 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
23 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by 280 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
24 Chuck Blake. 281 Chuck Blake.
690 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 947 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
691 --disable-xgetdefault. 948 --disable-xgetdefault.
692 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 949 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
693 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 950 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
694 unicode character. 951 unicode character.
695 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 952 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
696 get it wrong. 953 get it wrong.
697 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 954 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
698 955
6992.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9562.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
700 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 957 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
701 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 958 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
702 settings. 959 settings.
753 - many other minor bugfixes. 1010 - many other minor bugfixes.
754 1011
7551.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10121.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
756 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1013 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
757 new bugs, this should not change much. 1014 new bugs, this should not change much.
758 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1015 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
759 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1016 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
760 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1017 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
761 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1018 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
762 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1019 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
763 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1020 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
764 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1021 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
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