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1rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title 1rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
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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
3TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 9TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
4TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
5TODO: safer command: keymap processing.
6TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 10TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
7TODO: 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.
8TODO: 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.
9WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences. 20DUMB: support tex fonts
10WISH: searchable backlog 21
11WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (my dream project) 22TODO: zero scorllback buffer should free memory
12WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif 23TODO: kuake
13WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender. 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 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarballe, it had no reason to be there
35 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
36 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
37 by omatunto_.
38
397.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
40 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
41 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
42 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
43 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
44 click, and eats the click.
45 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
46 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
47 refresh bugs please.
48 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
49 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
50 improve size hint setting.
51 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
52 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
53 to correctly position their preedit window.
54 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
55 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
56 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
57 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
58 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
59 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
60 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
61 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
62 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
63 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
64 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
65 (reported by Paco-Paco).
66 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
67 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
68 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
69
707.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
71 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
72 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
73 resource value.
74 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
75 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
76 relevant tab window.
77 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
78 (initial patch by hednod).
79 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
80 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
81 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
82 the benefit of automove-background.
83 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
84 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
85 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
86 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
87 __linux__.
88 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
89 the colour components.
90 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
91 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
92 - more colour rtt optimisations.
93 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
94 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
95 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
96 - minor libptytty update.
97
987.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
99 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
100 detection:
101 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
102 - overlap detection was improved.
103 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
104 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
105 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
106 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
107 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
108 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
109 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
110 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
111 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
112 broken.
113 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
114 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
115 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
116 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
117 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
118 (patch by Paco-Paco).
119 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
120 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
121 an "[alpha]" prefix.
122 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
123 transparent. Long Live Xft!
124 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
125 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
126 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
127 on a pseudocolor screen.
128 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
129 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
130 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
131 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
132 - small configure updates.
133 - further RTT optimisations.
134
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136 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
137 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
138 - small configure updates for libptytty.
139 - fixed version options: line output.
140 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
141
1427.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
143 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
144 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
145 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
146 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
147 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
148 selection extension.
149 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
150 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
151 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
152 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
153 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
154 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
155 needs the careful rendering mode.
156 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
157 too wide and needs careful mode.
158 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
159 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
160 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
161 atoms only once per display.
162 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
163 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
164 xterm.
165
1667.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
167 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
168 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
169 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
170 ctrl-shift-672c).
171 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
172 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
173 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
174 the primary screen.
175 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
176 could lead to an assertion failure.
177 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
178 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
179 via mouse clicks.
180 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
181 with shift - mouse button 2.
182 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
183 in non-synthetic events.
184 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
185 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
186 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
187 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
188 whole urxvt[d] process.
189 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
190 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
191 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
192 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
193
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195 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
196 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
197 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
198 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
199 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
200 special privileges.
201 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
202 itself.
203 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
204 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
205 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
206 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
207 similar stuff.
208 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
209 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
210 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
211 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
212 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
213 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
214 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
215 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
216 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
217 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
218 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
219 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
220 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
221 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
222 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
223 to set the window title.
224 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
225 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
226 at the wrong time.
227 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
228 anymore.
229 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
230 - nuked QNX support.
231 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
232 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
233 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
234 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
235
2367.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
237 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
238 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
239 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
240 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
241 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
242 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
243 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
244 and much much more.
245 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
246 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
247 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
248 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
249 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
250 setuid/setgid.
251 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
252 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
253 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
254 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
255 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
256 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
257 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
258 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
259 compatible, and not really small either.
260 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
261 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
262 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
263 to crashes.
264 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
265 colours.
266 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
267 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
268
2696.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
270 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
271 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
272 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
273 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
274 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
275 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
276 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
277 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
278 by Mikachu).
279 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
280 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
281 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
282 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
283 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
284 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
285 - fix directory permissions on install.
286 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
287 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
288 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
289 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
290 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
291
2926.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
293 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
294 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
295 Chuck Blake.
296 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
297 obscure the mouse cursor position.
298 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
299 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
300 on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
301 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
302 the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
303 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
304 transfer efficiency.
305 - further minor cleanups.
14 306
156.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005 3076.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
16 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.). 308 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
17 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback 309 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
18 while the user still drags. 310 while the user still drags.
669 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 961 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
670 --disable-xgetdefault. 962 --disable-xgetdefault.
671 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 963 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
672 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 964 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
673 unicode character. 965 unicode character.
674 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 966 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
675 get it wrong. 967 get it wrong.
676 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 968 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
677 969
6782.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 9702.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
679 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 971 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
680 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 972 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
681 settings. 973 settings.
732 - many other minor bugfixes. 1024 - many other minor bugfixes.
733 1025
7341.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10261.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
735 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1027 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
736 new bugs, this should not change much. 1028 new bugs, this should not change much.
737 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1029 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
738 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1030 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
739 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1031 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
740 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1032 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
741 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1033 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
742 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1034 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
743 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1035 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
744 1036

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