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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: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events.
7TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
8TODO: split perl documentation and urxvt.pm into separate files
1TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 9TODO: 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 10TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
5TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. 11TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
12TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?)
13TODO: default selection should handle = better
14TODO: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf
15WISH: skipscroll option
16WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
17WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
18WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
6TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 19WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
7WISH: xterm's -hold 20DUMB: support tex fonts
8WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences.
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 21
146.0 22TODO: zero scorllback buffer should free memory
23TODO: kuake
24 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
25 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
26 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
27 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
28 generic osc_seq.
29 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
30 were invoked recursively.
31 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
32 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
33 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
34
357.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
36 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
37 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
38 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
39 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
40 click, and eats the click.
41 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
42 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
43 refresh bugs please.
44 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
45 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
46 improve size hint setting.
47 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
48 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
49 to correctly position their preedit window.
50 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
51 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
52 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
53 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
54 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
55 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
56 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
57 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
58 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
59 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
60 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
61 (reported by Paco-Paco).
62 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
63 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
64 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
65
667.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
67 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
68 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
69 resource value.
70 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
71 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
72 relevant tab window.
73 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
74 (initial patch by hednod).
75 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
76 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
77 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
78 the benefit of automove-background.
79 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
80 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
81 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
82 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
83 __linux__.
84 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
85 the colour components.
86 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
87 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
88 - more colour rtt optimisations.
89 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
90 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
91 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
92 - minor libptytty update.
93
947.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
95 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
96 detection:
97 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
98 - overlap detection was improved.
99 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
100 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
101 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
102 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
103 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
104 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
105 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
106 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
107 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
108 broken.
109 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
110 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
111 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
112 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
113 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
114 (patch by Paco-Paco).
115 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
116 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
117 an "[alpha]" prefix.
118 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
119 transparent. Long Live Xft!
120 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
121 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
122 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
123 on a pseudocolor screen.
124 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
125 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
126 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
127 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
128 - small configure updates.
129 - further RTT optimisations.
130
1317.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
132 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
133 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
134 - small configure updates for libptytty.
135 - fixed version options: line output.
136 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
137
1387.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
139 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
140 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
141 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
142 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
143 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
144 selection extension.
145 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
146 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
147 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
148 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
149 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
150 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
151 needs the careful rendering mode.
152 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
153 too wide and needs careful mode.
154 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
155 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
156 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
157 atoms only once per display.
158 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
159 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
160 xterm.
161
1627.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
163 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
164 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
165 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
166 ctrl-shift-672c).
167 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
168 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
169 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
170 the primary screen.
171 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
172 could lead to an assertion failure.
173 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
174 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
175 via mouse clicks.
176 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
177 with shift - mouse button 2.
178 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
179 in non-synthetic events.
180 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
181 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
182 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
183 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
184 whole urxvt[d] process.
185 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
186 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
187 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
188 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
189
1907.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
191 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
192 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
193 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
194 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
195 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
196 special privileges.
197 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
198 itself.
199 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
200 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
201 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
202 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
203 similar stuff.
204 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
205 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
206 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
207 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
208 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
209 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
210 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
211 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
212 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
213 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
214 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
215 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
216 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
217 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
218 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
219 to set the window title.
220 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
221 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
222 at the wrong time.
223 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
224 anymore.
225 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
226 - nuked QNX support.
227 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
228 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
229 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
230 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
231
2327.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
233 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
234 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
235 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
236 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
237 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
238 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
239 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
240 and much much more.
241 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
242 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
243 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
244 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
245 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
246 setuid/setgid.
247 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
248 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
249 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
250 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
251 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
252 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
253 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
254 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
255 compatible, and not really small either.
256 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
257 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
258 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
259 to crashes.
260 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
261 colours.
262 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
263 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
264
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266 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
267 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
268 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
269 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
270 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
271 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
272 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
273 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
274 by Mikachu).
275 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
276 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
277 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
278 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
279 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
280 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
281 - fix directory permissions on install.
282 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
283 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
284 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
285 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
286 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
287
2886.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
289 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
290 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
291 Chuck Blake.
292 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
293 obscure the mouse cursor position.
294 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
295 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
296 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
297 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
298 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
299 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
300 transfer efficiency.
301 - further minor cleanups.
302
3036.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
304 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
305 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
306 while the user still drags.
307 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
308 not drawn correctly.
309 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
310 to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
311 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
312 - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
313 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
314 stripping whitespace.
315 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
316 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
317
3186.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
15 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again. 319 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
16 - enable slow link support by default. 320 - enable slow link support by default.
17 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions 321 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
18 (also a bug in original rxvt). 322 (also a bug in original rxvt).
19 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails 323 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
20 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a 324 (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
21 partial patch). 325 partial patch).
22 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each. 326 - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
23 - bump max savelines to 10000000. 327 - bump max savelines to 10000000.
328 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
329 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
24 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though). 330 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
25 - implement -hold option. 331 - implement -hold option.
26 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling: 332 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
27 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged. 333 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
28 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling). 334 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
651 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 957 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
652 --disable-xgetdefault. 958 --disable-xgetdefault.
653 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 959 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
654 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 960 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
655 unicode character. 961 unicode character.
656 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 962 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
657 get it wrong. 963 get it wrong.
658 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 964 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
659 965
6602.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9662.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
661 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 967 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
662 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 968 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
663 settings. 969 settings.
714 - many other minor bugfixes. 1020 - many other minor bugfixes.
715 1021
7161.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10221.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
717 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1023 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
718 new bugs, this should not change much. 1024 new bugs, this should not change much.
719 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1025 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
720 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1026 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
721 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1027 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
722 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1028 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
723 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1029 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
724 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1030 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
725 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1031 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
726 1032

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