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1rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title 1rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2 2
3TODO: init_secondary serves what purpose? maybe move it to earlier startup phase and re-think
4TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve 3TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve
5TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable. 4TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_user_command with something more scalable.
6TODO: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events. 5TODO: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events.
7TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn 6TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
8TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango! 7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
9TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. 8TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
10TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?) 9TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?)
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12WISH: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines 11WISH: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines
13 => when setting the constraints, the wm might (correctly) 12 => when setting the constraints, the wm might (correctly)
14 resize the outer window, which might result in a smaller window overall. 13 resize the outer window, which might result in a smaller window overall.
15 or something like that. guys, send me a patch. 14 or something like that. guys, send me a patch.
16WISH: coloured pastebin 15WISH: coloured pastebin
17WISH: selection-color-pair instead of reverse video
18WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one 16WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
19WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that? 17WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
20DUMB: support tex fonts 18DUMB: support tex fonts
19TODO: perl-shell-window? perl-unix-socket?
21 20
22TODO: /*TODO: the xlceararea/xfillrectangle below don't take scroll offste into account, ask mikachu for details */ 21TODO: - upgrade to libev-4.00.
22TODO: curses startcolor is supposed to reset palette
23 23
24TODO: cursor over overlays, when focus change? 24 - add support for blending and blurring with XRender (Emanuele Giaquinta).
25 - add support for using gdk-pixbuf as image backend (Emanuele Giaquinta).
26 - new perl extension "confirm-paste" (Emanuele Giaquinta).
27 - new on_tt_paste perl hook and tt_paste perl binding (Emanuele Giaquinta).
28 - new on_bell perl hook (Emanuele Giaquinta).
29 - searchable-scrollback no longer ignores the first line
30 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
31 - fix utmpx detection on upcoming FreeBSD 9.
32 - Use COMPOUND_TEXT encoding for WM_NAME/WM_ICON_NAME value when it
33 is not fully convertible to STRING (patch by James Cloos).
34 - fix a buffer overflow that would cause wrong key sequences to
35 be generated for numpad keys (introduced in 9.05).
36 - fix definition of sgr0 to work around limitations in luit.
37 - extend ISO 14755 5.4 mode to also print the font name of the
38 characters other than first one in the selected cell
39 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
40 - new iso14755 option to disable ISO 14755 at runtime
41 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
42 - make sure pagewise scrolling scrolls at least one line
43 (found by Mikachu).
44 - remove deprecated OSC 18 / 19 and make OSC 17 / 19 apply to
45 highlightColor / highlightTextColor (Emanuele Giaquinta).
46 - add highlightTextColor resource to change the foreground colour of
47 highlighted characters (Emanuele Giaquinta).
48 - make highlightColor apply also to selected cells with reverse video
49 but not to non selected cells with reverse video (Emanuele Giaquinta).
50 - remove colorRV resource (it was enabled only with frills off).
51 - fix numlock handling, the most longstanding bug to date (Emanuele Giaquinta).
52 - reduce the number of custom bits to 4, to make room
53 for 256 colours.
54 - add support for 256 colors (Emanuele Giaquinta, Marc Lehmann).
55 - add rxvt-unicode-256color terminfo and use it by default in 256 colors mode.
56 - update rxvt-unicode temrinfo to state 7744 colour pairs to cover all
57 88*88 possible pairs.
58 - actually added macosx-clipboard-native, which should have been in
59 the 9.07 release but had been forgotten.
60 - fix hang if DECAWM is not set and there are not enough columns to insert a
61 character (Emanuele Giaquinta).
62 - cub1 ("backspace") will not respect wrapping when past the rightmost column,
63 working around a shortcoming of most tty line discipline's line editing.
64 - add support for grabbing the clipboard selection and extend
65 selection{_clear,_grab,} perl bindings to optionally work
66 on the clipboard selection (based on patch by Dana Jansens).
67 - no longer force CERASE to BACKSPACE - use the system default. affects
68 default value for VERASE only when no compatible setting for
69 backspacekey was given.
70 - use higher than 38400 baudrate setting, if detected.
71 - erase screen would clear to the wrong background when blinking
72 was enabled (which selects high intensity under some circumstances).
73 - it was verified that urxvt handles µ and μ correctly.
74 - scr_kill_char didn't touch the line.
75
769.07 Wed Dec 30 07:07:18 CET 2009
77 - port to glibc-2.10 changes (strchr etc. returning const char *
78 in C++), based on patches by Milos Jakubicek and Oliver Mader.
79 - the binary search algorithm to find precomposed characters
80 was faulty, skipping some possible combinations (found by
81 Mikachu).
82 - new -letterspace option, patch by Mark H. Wilkinson.
83 - enable --mlock option for urxvt with frills on
84 systems supporting it (patch by Russell Harmon).
85 - urxvt did not compile without frills enabled
86 (analysed by Matthew Rosewarne).
87 - correctly reset the mbstate after an illegal
88 input sequence when handling terminal output (Emanuele Giaquinta).
89 - avoid redrawing wide characters with combining enabled on every
90 refresh (reported by Mikachu).
91 - fix a typo preventing the ISO-646.1991 character set from being
92 recognized (http://achurch.org/patch-pile/).
93 - better warning for x11 font encoding detection failures, also,
94 try to deduce encoding from both font properties and name
95 (adapted from http://achurch.org/patch-pile/).
96 - resizing the window with the scrollbar disabled via the escapes
97 sequence could make the window bigger again (Mikachu).
98 - make sure the alignment for fd passing control messages
99 is correct and work around some NetBSD issues (Taylor R Campbell).
100 - update to libptytty 1.3.
101 - replace macosx-clipboard by a nicer version by Reza Jelveh, and move
102 the old version to macosx-clipboard-native.
103 - document the -uc option (Emanuele Giaquinta).
104 - assertions in libev are now enabled depending on frills.
105 - update AnyEvent implementation to version 5.23 API.
106 - work around arrogant bsd idiocies again: netbsd spills the default
107 namespace with lots of symbols "for gnu/gcc compatibility" even
108 though neither of them does it, and then calls the rest of the world
109 in need of fixing. go figure.
110 - on_keyboard_command is on_user_command (patch by Michael Witten).
111 - setting the selection from perl will now reset the selection screen
112 to the current screen. the screen can be manipulated using
113 the new ->selection_screen method.
114 - implement --enable-assert configure option and get rid of DEBUG_STRICT
115 (based on patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
116 - fix printpipe data output (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
117 - allow `xxx' quoting style for perl selection.
118 - upgrade to libev-3.9 prerelease.
119 - updated compose tables to unicode 5.2.0.
120
1219.06 Sat Nov 8 17:47:18 CET 2008
122 - NOTICE: this release updates terminfo/termcap.
123 - updates libev to 3.48.
25 - the aterm code now frees the as visual and image manager objects 124 - the aterm code now frees the as visual and image manager objects
26 when a window was closed. 125 when a window was closed.
27 - do not (wrongly) adjust the virtual line length inside 126 - do not (wrongly) adjust the virtual line length inside
28 scr_insdel_chars/ERASE (Miroslav Lichvar). 127 scr_insdel_chars/ERASE (Miroslav Lichvar).
29 - fix an issue where wide tab characters caused character shifts 128 - fix an issue where wide tab characters caused character shifts
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44 - try to work around linux first breaking sched_yield and now breaking 143 - try to work around linux first breaking sched_yield and now breaking
45 the only known workaround. 144 the only known workaround.
46 - new option -icon to set _NET_WM_ICON (based on patch by Frank Schmitt). 145 - new option -icon to set _NET_WM_ICON (based on patch by Frank Schmitt).
47 - initialise the as visual only on demand, instead of unconditionally, 146 - initialise the as visual only on demand, instead of unconditionally,
48 to save memory in the common case of not using visual gimmicks. 147 to save memory in the common case of not using visual gimmicks.
49 - try to work around a race between urxvt and wm's on programmatic 148 - try to work around bugs in a few wm's that erroneously resize
50 resizes by temporarily disabling size hints. 149 client windows on hint property updates by temporarily
150 disabling size hints.
51 - implement the DECSTR soft reset sequence and use it for tput init, 151 - implement the DECSTR soft reset sequence and use it for tput init,
52 and make hard RIS and DECSTR both reset more private modes, such 152 and make hard RIS and DECSTR both reset more private modes, such
53 as mouse reporting. 153 as mouse reporting.
54 - redundantly clear mouse reporting and a few other states in 154 - redundantly clear mouse reporting and a few other states in
55 tput init/tput reset, for older urxvts. 155 tput init/tput reset, for older urxvts.
156 - partial/full clear screens did cause flickering and possibly pixel
157 droppings when urxvt viewed the scrollback buffer.
158 - use current rendition style in DCH sequence.
159 - the 132/80 mode switch no longer forces a screen reset.
160 - add an osc sequence to change the border colour (Emanuele Giaquinta).
161 - new perl extension "overlay-osc", for status displays and the like.
162 - fix some minor cursor drawing issues with overlays by allowing
163 overlays to modify screen flags (to disable the cursor themselves).
164 - work around programs not restoring rstyle before rmcup
165 (analysed by Miroslav Lichvar).
56 166
579.05 Sun Jun 15 20:09:20 CEST 2008 1679.05 Sun Jun 15 20:09:20 CEST 2008
58 - new option --cd/chdir to set the starting working directory. 168 - new option --cd/chdir to set the starting working directory.
59 - tabbed extension now starts in the "correct" working directory. 169 - tabbed extension now starts in the "correct" working directory.
60 - work around fedora 9 providing isastream but not the relevant 170 - work around fedora 9 providing isastream but not the relevant
61 header file for it (report by Tuncer Ayaz). 171 header file for it (report by Tuncer Ayaz).
62 - upgrade libev, fixing a bug in the select backend 172 - upgrade libev, fixing a bug in the select backend.
63 with more than 31 file descriptors on non-linux 64 bit systems. 173 with more than 31 file descriptors on non-linux 64 bit systems.
64 - correctly reset the multibyte state to the initial one 174 - correctly reset the multibyte state to the initial one
65 after EILSEQ (patch by Neil Booth). This fixes the 175 after EILSEQ (patch by Neil Booth). This fixes the
66 issue of rxvt-unicode not properly displaying text after an illegal 176 issue of rxvt-unicode not properly displaying text after an illegal
67 sequence on NetBSD and probably other systems. 177 sequence on NetBSD and probably other systems.
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90 - add buffered resource to control xft double-buffering. 200 - add buffered resource to control xft double-buffering.
91 201
929.0 Fri Jan 25 19:34:04 CET 2008 2029.0 Fri Jan 25 19:34:04 CET 2008
93 - fix a crash bug where urxvtd would crash when urxvtc was called 203 - fix a crash bug where urxvtd would crash when urxvtc was called
94 with wrong arguments (I wish debian maintainers in general would 204 with wrong arguments (I wish debian maintainers in general would
95 report bugs and their proposed fixes to the original package maintaienrs 205 report bugs and their proposed fixes to the original package maintainers
96 instead of sitting on them for good measure to see if anybody notices). 206 instead of sitting on them for good measure to see if anybody notices).
97 - drawing xft compose characters was causing garbage to be drawn. 207 - drawing xft compose characters was causing garbage to be drawn.
98 - correctly clear xft character background in all cases. 208 - correctly clear xft character background in all cases.
99 - implement bracketed paste mode (xterm private mode 2004). 209 - implement bracketed paste mode (xterm private mode 2004).
100 - improve documentation on alpha channel handling, make urxvt 210 - improve documentation on alpha channel handling, make urxvt
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164 the high performance libev (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev). 274 the high performance libev (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev).
165 - minor tuning to the perl selection (include single words and more quoting chars). 275 - minor tuning to the perl selection (include single words and more quoting chars).
166 - fix memory leak in pixmap code. 276 - fix memory leak in pixmap code.
167 - fix a serious bug while setting the XIM destroy callback 277 - fix a serious bug while setting the XIM destroy callback
168 on (typical) 64 bit systems. 278 on (typical) 64 bit systems.
169 - automove-background functionality re-implemented internaly using :root op in pixmap 279 - automove-background functionality re-implemented internally using :root op in pixmap
170 geometry string. For example: rxvt -pixmap "image.jpg;:root" 280 geometry string. For example: rxvt -pixmap "image.jpg;:root"
171 - do not link rxvtc against every lib on the planet anymore. 281 - do not link rxvtc against every lib on the planet anymore.
172 - parallel builds should work once more. 282 - parallel builds should work once more.
173 283
1748.4 Sat Oct 27 14:02:13 CEST 2007 2848.4 Sat Oct 27 14:02:13 CEST 2007
175 - overhaul of the transparency/pixmap code (sasha). 285 - overhaul of the transparency/pixmap code (sasha).
176 - fix possible race betwen visual bell and poweron. 286 - fix possible race between visual bell and poweron.
177 (reported by Martin von Gagern, gentoo?). 287 (reported by Martin von Gagern, gentoo?).
178 - urxvt -e no longer crashes the child. 288 - urxvt -e no longer crashes the child.
179 - fixed some minor memleaks on incorrect usage or 289 - fixed some minor memleaks on incorrect usage or
180 missing DISPLAY. 290 missing DISPLAY.
181 - implement xterm 1002/1003 mouse tracking modes (exg). 291 - implement xterm 1002/1003 mouse tracking modes (exg).
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288 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from 398 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from
289 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my 399 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my
290 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults 400 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults
291 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources. 401 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources.
292 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake 402 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake
293 terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl). 403 terminal emulator (see man urxvtperl).
294 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and 404 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and
295 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds). 405 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
296 - the "depth" resource is now respected. 406 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
297 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search 407 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search
298 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an 408 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an
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339 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets 449 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
340 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods 450 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
341 to correctly position their preedit window. 451 to correctly position their preedit window.
342 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the 452 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
343 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same 453 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
344 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection), 454 in empty spaces, but that's not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
345 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where 455 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
346 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours. 456 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
347 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate 457 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
348 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed. 458 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
349 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting. 459 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
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3587.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006 4687.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
359 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix. 469 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
360 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the 470 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
361 resource value. 471 resource value.
362 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument. 472 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
363 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th 473 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and key events to the
364 relevant tab window. 474 relevant tab window.
365 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults 475 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
366 (initial patch by hednod). 476 (initial patch by hednod).
367 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and 477 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
368 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime. 478 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
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508 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started. 618 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
509 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus, 619 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
510 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm). 620 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
511 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD. 621 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
512 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure 622 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
513 (Emanuele Giaquinta). 623 (Emanuele Giaquinta=exg).
514 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description, 624 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
515 to set the window title. 625 to set the window title.
516 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes 626 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
517 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables 627 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
518 at the wrong time. 628 at the wrong time.
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729 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk, 839 - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
730 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented 840 and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
731 in Perl/Gtk2. 841 in Perl/Gtk2.
732 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling 842 - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
733 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert. 843 when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
734 (reported by Mikael Magnusson). 844 (reported by Mikael Magnusson=Mikachu).
735 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt 845 - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
736 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for 846 (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
737 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd, 847 pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
738 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary. 848 and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
739 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using 849 - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using

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