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Revision: 1.236
Committed: Wed Aug 25 04:16:33 2004 UTC (19 years, 8 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-3_8
Changes since 1.194: +59 -1 lines
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# Content
1 Lines marked with "xterm:" indicate either xterm features ported to rxvt
2 or changed rxvt behaviour to make it more compatible to xterm (usually
3 xfree86's xterm).
4
5 TODO: implement xterm keymap option, for full TERM=xterm compliance.
6 TODO: multibyte support for setwmname et al.
7 TODO: tabbed windows
8 TODO: there are other todo items, but they are not in this file.
9
10 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
11 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
12 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
13 installed if tic is available.
14 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
15 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
16 - removed README.unicode.
17 - support select&paste of tab characters.
18 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
19 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
20 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
21 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
22 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
23 screen updates with curses.
24 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
25 by spaces.
26 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
27 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
28 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
29 is just too slow for this to work.
30 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
31 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
32 implement. use --enable-styles.
33 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
34 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
35 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
36 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
37 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
38 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
39 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
40 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
41 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
42 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
43 (only for non-bold right now).
44 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
45 - better default font size and style.
46 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
47 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
48 single character against the base font extents and will only
49 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
50 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
51 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
52 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
53 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
54 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
55 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
56 screen height.
57 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
58 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
59 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
60 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
61 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
62 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
63 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
64 - removed OSC 702.
65 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
66 confused by it rather than using it.
67
68 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
69 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
70 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
71 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
72 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
73 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
74 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
75 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
76 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
77 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
78 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
79 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
80 close).
81 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
82 not, this was a major blocker in implementign tabbed termianls.
83 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
84 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
85 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
86 could not be created.
87 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
88 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
89 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
90 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
91 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
92 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
93 works.
94 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
95 - document more escape sequences.
96 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
97 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
98 character is a sensible operation.
99 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
100 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
101 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
102 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
103 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
104 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
105 with selections).
106
107 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
108 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
109 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
110 needs access to a local shell window).
111 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
112 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
113 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
114 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
115 a little window or so) would be welcome.
116 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
117 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
118 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
119 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
120 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
121 added there.
122 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
123 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
124 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
125 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
126 instead of being ignored.
127 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
128 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
129 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
130 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
131 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
132 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
133 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
134 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
135 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
136 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
137 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
138 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
139 needs testing anyways.
140 - more complete compile options help output.
141 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
142 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
143 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
144 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
145 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
146 - minor doc fix.
147
148 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
149 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
150 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
151 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
152 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
153 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
154 memmove :)
155 - minor cleanups.
156 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
157 (debian bug #169415).
158 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
159 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
160 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
161 - updated config.guess.
162
163 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
164 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
165 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
166 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
167 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
168 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
169 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
170 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
171 speeding up scrolling immensely.
172 - various other optimizations.
173 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
174
175 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
176 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
177 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
178 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
179 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
180 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
181 Mikael Magnusson).
182 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
183 Mikael Magnusson).
184 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
185 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
186 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
187
188 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
189 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
190 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
191 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
192 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
193 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
194 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
195 with ^V (SYN).
196 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
197
198 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
199 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
200 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
201 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
202 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
203 well as with other terminal emulators.
204 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
205 (reported by elmex).
206 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
207 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
208 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
209 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
210 Bloch.
211
212 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
213 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
214 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
215 sorry).
216 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
217 make it a little bit more correct c++).
218
219 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
220 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
221 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
222 - minor i18n issue fixes.
223
224 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
225 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
226 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
227 - fix some minor bugs.
228
229 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
230 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
231 for the keymappings.
232 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
233 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
234 - xterm: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is an
235 extension and is slightly ugly.
236 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
237 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
238 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
239 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
240 - xterm: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
241 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
242 overwritten (as is common).
243 - xterm: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
244 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
245
246 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
247 - minor doc corrections.
248 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
249 avoid clashes with xterm.
250 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
251 - xterm: make set window colour and other requests report window
252 colour when arg is "?".
253 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
254 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
255 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
256 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
257 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
258 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
259 (FRILLS).
260 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
261 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
262 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
263 - set _NET_WM_PID.
264
265 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
266 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
267 - support more 8-bit controls.
268 - more informative error messages.
269 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
270 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
271 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
272 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
273 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
274
275 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
276 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
277 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
278 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
279 - removed old selection style completely.
280 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
281 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
282 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
283 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
284 be used from within rxvt.
285 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
286
287 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
288 - code cleanup release.
289 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
290 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
291 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
292 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
293 all files.
294 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
295 --enable-xgetdefaults.
296
297 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
298 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
299 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
300 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
301 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
302 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
303 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
304 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
305 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
306 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
307 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
308 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
309 --disable-xgetdefault.
310 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
311 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
312 unicode character.
313 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
314 get it wrong.
315 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
316
317 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
318 - NOTE: the name of the binary and ressources were changed in
319 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
320 settings.
321 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
322 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
323 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
324 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
325 mbrtowc.
326 - more robust encoding name matching.
327 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
328 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
329 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
330 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
331 resources and docs.
332 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
333
334 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
335 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
336 - some doc cleanup
337 - configure cleanup
338 - viscii enabled by default
339 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
340
341 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
342 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
343
344 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
345 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
346 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
347 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
348 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
349 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
350 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
351 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
352 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
353 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
354 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
355 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
356 reported by joel reed.
357 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
358 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
359 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
360 being selected.
361 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
362 - removed greek support.
363 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
364 - correct cursor width if !focus.
365 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
366 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard block
367 contributed.
368 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
369 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
370 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
371 - many other minor bugfixes.
372
373 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
374 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
375 new bugs, this should not change much.
376 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
377 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
378 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
379 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
380 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
381 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
382 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
383
384 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
385 - further cleanups.
386 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
387 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
388 use reverse video, not _blink_.
389 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
390 please drop me a note.
391
392 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
393 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
394 - blinking text.
395 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
396 normal text when colorBD is not set.
397 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
398 was never implemented
399
400 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
401 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
402 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
403 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
404 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
405 reported by fefe
406 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
407 Markus Demleitner
408 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
409 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
410 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
411
412 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
413 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
414 - small font tunings
415 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
416 - better error reporting for unknown options
417
418 1.3 2003-12-26
419 - fix a bug in font height selection
420 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
421 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
422 - much faster x11 font selection
423
424 1.2 2003-12-24
425 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug form the original rxvt
426 - better font matching
427 - better memory management (less memory)
428 - new fallback: gnu freefont
429
430 1.1 2003-12-18
431 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
432 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
433 - much improved font choosing
434
435 1.0
436 - first release
437 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
438 - removed rclock et al.
439 - initial conversion to C++
440