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3TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 3TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve
4TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent. 4TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
5TODO: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events.
6TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
5TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
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, motion hints?)
10TODO: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines
11 => when setting the constraints, the wm might (correctly)
12 resize the outer window, which might result in a smaller window overall.
13 or something like that. guys, send me a patch.
14TODO: zeroing scorllback buffer should free memory
15WISH: skipscroll option
16WISH: selection-color-pair instead of reverse video
17WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
18WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
19WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
7TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 20WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep scrollbar look.
8WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif 21WISH: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf
9WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender. 22DUMB: support tex fonts
10 23
24TODO: outline cursor color broken? http://bereft.net/rxvt-cursor2.png http://bereft.net/rxvt-cursor1.png
25TODO: matcher etc. support
26TODO: add ctype locale info to some menu to aid the "support"
27TODO: (exg) rxvt -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1 U+39b+U+30a wipes out 39b
288.0
29 - specified fonts were incorrectly morphed to bold/italic according to the
30 basefont, even if explicitly specified (tracked down by tpope).
31 - fixed urxvt::strwidth to calculate width in the same way as screen.C.
32 - fix a crash caused by passing negative widths to overlay functions.
33 - give proper diagnostic when RXVT_SOCKET is too long instead of
34 corrupting the stack (patch by exg).
35 - urxvtd no longer crashes when the client sends an inaccessible
36 working directory (reported by Roland Baer, possibly fixes gentoo
37 bug #143985).
38 - fixed many minor issues reported by Roland Baer.
39 - Leonid Khramov spotted a minor glitch in rxvtfont.C that
40 should not have any consequences, but was buggy nonetheless.
41
427.9 Mon Aug 7 18:16:07 CEST 2006
43 - fix the crashing bug people encountered with 7.8 + urxvtd + perl
44 + transparency. Ought to fix debian bug #380348.
45 - fix urxvtc.1.pod: it actually claimed -pty-fd would not work. But
46 it does! :->
47 - rxvt_fatal() in case the locale string is too long for our static buffer.
48 - fixed many, many, typos in the manpages (patch supplied by ves).
49
507.8 Mon Jul 17 21:00:46 CEST 2006
51 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults,
52 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from
53 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my
54 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults
55 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources.
56 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake
57 terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl).
58 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and
59 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
60 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
61 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search
62 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an
63 uppercase character.
64 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
65 - re-enabled highlightcolor support with --enable-frills, based on
66 a patch by Martin Stubenschrott.
67 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
68 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
69 - strategically add # to the url-match regexes, as we really want to
70 match common URIs not common URLs. Reported by Aaron Griffin.
71 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
72 generic osc_seq.
73 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
74 were invoked recursively.
75 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
76 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
77 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
78 - apply colorUL only when the text colour is the default fg
79 (patch by Wu Fengguang).
80 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there
81 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
82 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
83 by omatunto_.
84 - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't
85 follow C++ closely enough.
86 - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger.
87 - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang.
88 - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the
89 bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays.
90
917.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
92 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
93 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
94 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
95 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
96 click, and eats the click.
97 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
98 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
99 refresh bugs please.
100 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
101 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
102 improve size hint setting.
103 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
104 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
105 to correctly position their preedit window.
106 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
107 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
108 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
109 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
110 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
111 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
112 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
113 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
114 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
115 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
116 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
117 (reported by Paco-Paco).
118 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
119 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
120 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
121
1227.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
123 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
124 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
125 resource value.
126 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
127 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
128 relevant tab window.
129 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
130 (initial patch by hednod).
131 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
132 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
133 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
134 the benefit of automove-background.
135 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
136 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
137 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
138 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
139 __linux__.
140 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
141 the colour components.
142 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
143 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
144 - more colour rtt optimisations.
145 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
146 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
147 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
148 - minor libptytty update.
149
1507.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
151 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
152 detection:
153 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
154 - overlap detection was improved.
155 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
156 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
157 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
158 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
159 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
160 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
161 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
162 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
163 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
164 broken.
165 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
166 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
167 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
168 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
169 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
170 (patch by Paco-Paco).
171 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
172 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
173 an "[alpha]" prefix.
174 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
175 transparent. Long Live Xft!
176 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
177 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
178 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
179 on a pseudocolor screen.
180 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
181 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
182 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
183 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
184 - small configure updates.
185 - further RTT optimisations.
186 - backported clean-up patches for makefiles and documentation from
187 the debian package.
188 - updated doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file. It's still not maintained here,
189 but much newer than the old one.
190
1917.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
192 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
193 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
194 - small configure updates for libptytty.
195 - fixed version options: line output.
196 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
197
1987.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
199 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
200 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
201 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
202 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
203 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
204 selection extension.
205 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
206 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
207 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
208 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
209 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
210 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
211 needs the careful rendering mode.
212 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
213 too wide and needs careful mode.
214 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
215 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
216 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
217 atoms only once per display.
218 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
219 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
220 xterm.
221
2227.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
223 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
224 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
225 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
226 ctrl-shift-672c).
227 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
228 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
229 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
230 the primary screen.
231 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
232 could lead to an assertion failure.
233 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
234 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
235 via mouse clicks.
236 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
237 with shift - mouse button 2.
238 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
239 in non-synthetic events.
240 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
241 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
242 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
243 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
244 whole urxvt[d] process.
245 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
246 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
247 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
248 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
249
2507.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
251 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
252 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
253 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
254 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
255 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
256 special privileges.
257 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
258 itself.
259 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
260 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
261 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
262 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
263 similar stuff.
264 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
265 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
266 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
267 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
268 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
269 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
270 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
271 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
272 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
273 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
274 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
275 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
276 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
277 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
278 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
279 to set the window title.
280 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
281 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
282 at the wrong time.
283 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
284 anymore.
285 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
286 - nuked QNX support.
287 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
288 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
289 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
290 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
291
2927.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
293 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
294 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
295 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
296 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
297 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
298 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
299 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
300 and much much more.
301 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
302 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
303 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
304 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
305 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
306 setuid/setgid.
307 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
308 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
309 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
310 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
311 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
312 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
313 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
314 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
315 compatible, and not really small either.
316 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
317 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
318 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
319 to crashes.
320 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
321 colours.
322 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
323 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
324
3256.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
326 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
327 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
328 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
329 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
330 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
331 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
332 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
333 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
334 by Mikachu).
11 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more 335 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
12 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback, 336 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
13 menus, tabs etc. See the urxvtperl manpage. 337 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
338 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
339 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
340 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
14 - fix directory permissions on install. 341 - fix directory permissions on install.
15 - improved sched_yield support. 342 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
343 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
344 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
345 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
346 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
16 347
176.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006 3486.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
18 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink 349 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
19 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by 350 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
20 Chuck Blake. 351 Chuck Blake.
686 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 1017 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
687 --disable-xgetdefault. 1018 --disable-xgetdefault.
688 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 1019 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
689 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 1020 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
690 unicode character. 1021 unicode character.
691 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 1022 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
692 get it wrong. 1023 get it wrong.
693 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 1024 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
694 1025
6952.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 10262.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
696 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 1027 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
697 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 1028 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
698 settings. 1029 settings.
749 - many other minor bugfixes. 1080 - many other minor bugfixes.
750 1081
7511.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10821.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
752 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1083 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
753 new bugs, this should not change much. 1084 new bugs, this should not change much.
754 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1085 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
755 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1086 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
756 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1087 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
757 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1088 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
758 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1089 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
759 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1090 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
760 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1091 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
761 1092

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