--- rxvt-unicode/Changes 2008/11/04 15:02:35 1.888 +++ rxvt-unicode/Changes 2010/10/15 21:30:51 1.964 @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title -TODO: init_secondary serves what purpose? maybe move it to earlier startup phase and re-think TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve -TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable. +TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_user_command with something more scalable. TODO: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events. TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango! @@ -14,23 +13,120 @@ resize the outer window, which might result in a smaller window overall. or something like that. guys, send me a patch. WISH: coloured pastebin -WISH: selection-color-pair instead of reverse video WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that? DUMB: support tex fonts +TODO: perl-shell-window? perl-unix-socket? -TODO: /*TODO: the xlceararea/xfillrectangle below don't take scroll offste into account, ask mikachu for details */ +TODO: - upgrade to libev-4.00. -TODO: investgate wm resize race: while sleep 0.001; do printf "\033[?30l";sleep 0.001;printf "\033[?30h";done -TODO: investigate miroslav patches -TODO: artificially enlargen wide characters at end to correctly cut&paste. -TODO: cursor over overlays, when focus change? + - add support for blending and blurring with XRender (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - add support for using gdk-pixbuf as image backend (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - new perl extension "confirm-paste" (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - new on_tt_paste perl hook and tt_paste perl binding (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - new on_bell perl hook (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - searchable-scrollback no longer ignores the first line + (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - fix utmpx detection on upcoming FreeBSD 9. + - Use COMPOUND_TEXT encoding for WM_NAME/WM_ICON_NAME value when it + is not fully convertible to STRING (patch by James Cloos). + - fix a buffer overflow that would cause wrong key sequences to + be generated for numpad keys (introduced in 9.05). + - fix definition of sgr0 to work around limitations in luit. + - extend ISO 14755 5.4 mode to also print the font name of the + characters other than first one in the selected cell + (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - new iso14755 option to disable ISO 14755 at runtime + (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - make sure pagewise scrolling scrolls at least one line + (found by Mikachu). + - remove deprecated OSC 18 / 19 and make OSC 17 / 19 apply to + highlightColor / highlightTextColor (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - add highlightTextColor resource to change the foreground colour of + highlighted characters (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - make highlightColor apply also to selected cells with reverse video + but not to non selected cells with reverse video (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - remove colorRV resource (it was enabled only with frills off). + - fix numlock handling, the most longstanding bug to date (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - reduce the number of custom bits to 4, to make room + for 256 colours. + - add support for 256 colors (Emanuele Giaquinta, Marc Lehmann). + - add rxvt-unicode-256color terminfo and use it by default in 256 colors mode. + - actually added macosx-clipboard-native, which should have been in + the 9.07 release but had been forgotten. + - fix hang if DECAWM is not set and there are not enough columns to insert a + character (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - cub1 ("backspace") will not respect wrapping when past the rightmost column, + working around a shortcoming of most tty line discipline's line editing. + - add support for grabbing the clipboard selection and extend + selection{_clear,_grab,} perl bindings to optionally work + on the clipboard selection (based on patch by Dana Jansens). + - no longer force CERASE to BACKSPACE - use the system default. affects + default value for VERASE only when no compatible setting for + backspacekey was given. + - use higher than 38400 baudrate setting, if detected. + - erase screen would clear to the wrong background when blinking + was enabled (which selects high intensity under some circumstances). + - it was verified that urxvt handles µ and μ correctly. + - scr_kill_char didn't touch the line. + +9.07 Wed Dec 30 07:07:18 CET 2009 + - port to glibc-2.10 changes (strchr etc. returning const char * + in C++), based on patches by Milos Jakubicek and Oliver Mader. + - the binary search algorithm to find precomposed characters + was faulty, skipping some possible combinations (found by + Mikachu). + - new -letterspace option, patch by Mark H. Wilkinson. + - enable --mlock option for urxvt with frills on + systems supporting it (patch by Russell Harmon). + - urxvt did not compile without frills enabled + (analysed by Matthew Rosewarne). + - correctly reset the mbstate after an illegal + input sequence when handling terminal output (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - avoid redrawing wide characters with combining enabled on every + refresh (reported by Mikachu). + - fix a typo preventing the ISO-646.1991 character set from being + recognized (http://achurch.org/patch-pile/). + - better warning for x11 font encoding detection failures, also, + try to deduce encoding from both font properties and name + (adapted from http://achurch.org/patch-pile/). + - resizing the window with the scrollbar disabled via the escapes + sequence could make the window bigger again (Mikachu). + - make sure the alignment for fd passing control messages + is correct and work around some NetBSD issues (Taylor R Campbell). + - update to libptytty 1.3. + - replace macosx-clipboard by a nicer version by Reza Jelveh, and move + the old version to macosx-clipboard-native. + - document the -uc option (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - assertions in libev are now enabled depending on frills. + - update AnyEvent implementation to version 5.23 API. + - work around arrogant bsd idiocies again: netbsd spills the default + namespace with lots of symbols "for gnu/gcc compatibility" even + though neither of them does it, and then calls the rest of the world + in need of fixing. go figure. + - on_keyboard_command is on_user_command (patch by Michael Witten). + - setting the selection from perl will now reset the selection screen + to the current screen. the screen can be manipulated using + the new ->selection_screen method. + - implement --enable-assert configure option and get rid of DEBUG_STRICT + (based on patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + - fix printpipe data output (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta). + - allow `xxx' quoting style for perl selection. + - upgrade to libev-3.9 prerelease. + - updated compose tables to unicode 5.2.0. + +9.06 Sat Nov 8 17:47:18 CET 2008 + - NOTICE: this release updates terminfo/termcap. + - updates libev to 3.48. - the aterm code now frees the as visual and image manager objects when a window was closed. - do not (wrongly) adjust the virtual line length inside scr_insdel_chars/ERASE (Miroslav Lichvar). - fix an issue where wide tab characters caused character shifts when part of them was deleted (tracked down by Miroslav Lichvar). + - artificially enlargen the previous character at the end of a line + when trying to output a character that doesn't fit. looks ugly, but + makes copy&paste work. - remove bogus "setuid/setgid security issues" from rxvt.1.pod, they no longer apply. - the urgency hint is now cleared on both focus in and focus out. @@ -44,14 +140,33 @@ - try to work around linux first breaking sched_yield and now breaking the only known workaround. - new option -icon to set _NET_WM_ICON (based on patch by Frank Schmitt). - - intiialise the as visual only on demand, instead of unconditionally. + - initialise the as visual only on demand, instead of unconditionally, + to save memory in the common case of not using visual gimmicks. + - try to work around bugs in a few wm's that erroneously resize + client windows on hint property updates by temporarily + disabling size hints. + - implement the DECSTR soft reset sequence and use it for tput init, + and make hard RIS and DECSTR both reset more private modes, such + as mouse reporting. + - redundantly clear mouse reporting and a few other states in + tput init/tput reset, for older urxvts. + - partial/full clear screens did cause flickering and possibly pixel + droppings when urxvt viewed the scrollback buffer. + - use current rendition style in DCH sequence. + - the 132/80 mode switch no longer forces a screen reset. + - add an osc sequence to change the border colour (Emanuele Giaquinta). + - new perl extension "overlay-osc", for status displays and the like. + - fix some minor cursor drawing issues with overlays by allowing + overlays to modify screen flags (to disable the cursor themselves). + - work around programs not restoring rstyle before rmcup + (analysed by Miroslav Lichvar). 9.05 Sun Jun 15 20:09:20 CEST 2008 - new option --cd/chdir to set the starting working directory. - tabbed extension now starts in the "correct" working directory. - work around fedora 9 providing isastream but not the relevant header file for it (report by Tuncer Ayaz). - - upgrade libev, fixing a bug in the select backend + - upgrade libev, fixing a bug in the select backend. with more than 31 file descriptors on non-linux 64 bit systems. - correctly reset the multibyte state to the initial one after EILSEQ (patch by Neil Booth). This fixes the @@ -84,7 +199,7 @@ 9.0 Fri Jan 25 19:34:04 CET 2008 - fix a crash bug where urxvtd would crash when urxvtc was called with wrong arguments (I wish debian maintainers in general would - report bugs and their proposed fixes to the original package maintaienrs + report bugs and their proposed fixes to the original package maintainers instead of sitting on them for good measure to see if anybody notices). - drawing xft compose characters was causing garbage to be drawn. - correctly clear xft character background in all cases. @@ -158,14 +273,14 @@ - fix memory leak in pixmap code. - fix a serious bug while setting the XIM destroy callback on (typical) 64 bit systems. - - automove-background functionality re-implemented internaly using :root op in pixmap + - automove-background functionality re-implemented internally using :root op in pixmap geometry string. For example: rxvt -pixmap "image.jpg;:root" - do not link rxvtc against every lib on the planet anymore. - parallel builds should work once more. 8.4 Sat Oct 27 14:02:13 CEST 2007 - overhaul of the transparency/pixmap code (sasha). - - fix possible race betwen visual bell and poweron. + - fix possible race between visual bell and poweron. (reported by Martin von Gagern, gentoo?). - urxvt -e no longer crashes the child. - fixed some minor memleaks on incorrect usage or @@ -282,7 +397,7 @@ resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources. - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake - terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl). + terminal emulator (see man urxvtperl). - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds). - the "depth" resource is now respected. @@ -333,7 +448,7 @@ to correctly position their preedit window. - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same - in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection), + in empty spaces, but that's not true when reversing (e.g. selection), so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours. - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate @@ -352,7 +467,7 @@ - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the resource value. - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument. - - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th + - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and key events to the relevant tab window. - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults (initial patch by hednod). @@ -502,7 +617,7 @@ as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm). - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD. - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure - (Emanuele Giaquinta). + (Emanuele Giaquinta=exg). - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description, to set the window title. - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes @@ -723,7 +838,7 @@ in Perl/Gtk2. - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert. - (reported by Mikael Magnusson). + (reported by Mikael Magnusson=Mikachu). - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,