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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: safer command: keymap processing. 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
6TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
7TODO: 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.
8TODO: 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.
9WISH: keymap modification via esc-sequences. (obsoleted by embedded perl) 21WISH: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf
10WISH: searchable backlog (obsoleted by embedded perl) 22DUMB: support tex fonts
11WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex/master process (obsoleted by embedded perl)
12WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
13WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
14 23
15TODO: document -pelr options/resources 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 - update to libptytty-1.0.
42
437.9 Mon Aug 7 18:16:07 CEST 2006
44 - fix the crashing bug people encountered with 7.8 + urxvtd + perl
45 + transparency. Ought to fix debian bug #380348.
46 - fix urxvtc.1.pod: it actually claimed -pty-fd would not work. But
47 it does! :->
48 - rxvt_fatal() in case the locale string is too long for our static buffer.
49 - fixed many, many, typos in the manpages (patch supplied by ves).
50
517.8 Mon Jul 17 21:00:46 CEST 2006
52 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults,
53 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from
54 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my
55 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults
56 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources.
57 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake
58 terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl).
59 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and
60 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
61 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
62 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search
63 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an
64 uppercase character.
65 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
66 - re-enabled highlightcolor support with --enable-frills, based on
67 a patch by Martin Stubenschrott.
68 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
69 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
70 - strategically add # to the url-match regexes, as we really want to
71 match common URIs not common URLs. Reported by Aaron Griffin.
72 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
73 generic osc_seq.
74 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
75 were invoked recursively.
76 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
77 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
78 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
79 - apply colorUL only when the text colour is the default fg
80 (patch by Wu Fengguang).
81 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there
82 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
83 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
84 by omatunto_.
85 - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't
86 follow C++ closely enough.
87 - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger.
88 - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang.
89 - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the
90 bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays.
91
927.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
93 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
94 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
95 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
96 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
97 click, and eats the click.
98 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
99 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
100 refresh bugs please.
101 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
102 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
103 improve size hint setting.
104 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
105 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
106 to correctly position their preedit window.
107 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
108 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
109 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
110 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
111 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
112 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
113 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
114 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
115 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
116 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
117 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
118 (reported by Paco-Paco).
119 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
120 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
121 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
122
1237.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
124 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
125 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
126 resource value.
127 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
128 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
129 relevant tab window.
130 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
131 (initial patch by hednod).
132 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
133 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
134 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
135 the benefit of automove-background.
136 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
137 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
138 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
139 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
140 __linux__.
141 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
142 the colour components.
143 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
144 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
145 - more colour rtt optimisations.
146 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
147 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
148 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
149 - minor libptytty update.
150
1517.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
152 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
153 detection:
154 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
155 - overlap detection was improved.
156 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
157 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
158 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
159 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
160 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
161 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
162 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
163 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
164 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
165 broken.
166 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
167 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
168 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
169 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
170 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
171 (patch by Paco-Paco).
172 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
173 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
174 an "[alpha]" prefix.
175 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
176 transparent. Long Live Xft!
177 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
178 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
179 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
180 on a pseudocolor screen.
181 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
182 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
183 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
184 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
185 - small configure updates.
186 - further RTT optimisations.
187 - backported clean-up patches for makefiles and documentation from
188 the debian package.
189 - updated doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file. It's still not maintained here,
190 but much newer than the old one.
191
1927.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
193 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
194 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
195 - small configure updates for libptytty.
196 - fixed version options: line output.
197 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
198
1997.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
200 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
201 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
202 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
203 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
204 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
205 selection extension.
206 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
207 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
208 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
209 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
210 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
211 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
212 needs the careful rendering mode.
213 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
214 too wide and needs careful mode.
215 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
216 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
217 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
218 atoms only once per display.
219 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
220 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
221 xterm.
222
2237.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
224 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
225 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
226 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
227 ctrl-shift-672c).
228 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
229 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
230 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
231 the primary screen.
232 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
233 could lead to an assertion failure.
234 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
235 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
236 via mouse clicks.
237 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
238 with shift - mouse button 2.
239 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
240 in non-synthetic events.
241 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
242 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
243 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
244 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
245 whole urxvt[d] process.
246 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
247 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
248 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
249 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
250
2517.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
252 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
253 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
254 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
255 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
256 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
257 special privileges.
258 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
259 itself.
260 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
261 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
262 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
263 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
264 similar stuff.
265 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
266 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
267 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
268 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
269 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
270 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
271 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
272 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
273 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
274 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
275 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
276 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
277 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
278 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
279 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
280 to set the window title.
281 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
282 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
283 at the wrong time.
284 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
285 anymore.
286 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
287 - nuked QNX support.
288 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
289 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
290 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
291 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
292
2937.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
294 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
295 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
296 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
297 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
298 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
299 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
300 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
301 and much much more.
302 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
303 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
304 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
305 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
306 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
307 setuid/setgid.
308 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
309 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
310 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
311 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
312 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
313 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
314 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
315 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
316 compatible, and not really small either.
317 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
318 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
319 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
320 to crashes.
321 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
322 colours.
323 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
324 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
325
3266.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
327 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
328 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
329 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
330 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
331 systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
332 GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
333 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
334 restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
335 by Mikachu).
16 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more 336 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
17 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback, menus 337 intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
18 etc. See the urxvtperl manpage. 338 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
339 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
340 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
341 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
19 - fix directory permissions on install. 342 - fix directory permissions on install.
20 - improved sched_yield support. 343 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
344 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
345 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
346 (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
347 periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
21 348
226.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006 3496.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
23 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink 350 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
24 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by 351 selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
25 Chuck Blake. 352 Chuck Blake.
691 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 1018 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
692 --disable-xgetdefault. 1019 --disable-xgetdefault.
693 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 1020 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
694 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 1021 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
695 unicode character. 1022 unicode character.
696 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 1023 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
697 get it wrong. 1024 get it wrong.
698 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 1025 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
699 1026
7002.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 10272.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
701 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 1028 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
702 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 1029 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
703 settings. 1030 settings.
754 - many other minor bugfixes. 1081 - many other minor bugfixes.
755 1082
7561.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10831.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
757 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1084 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
758 new bugs, this should not change much. 1085 new bugs, this should not change much.
759 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1086 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
760 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1087 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
761 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1088 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
762 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1089 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
763 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1090 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
764 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1091 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
765 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1092 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
766 1093

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