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Revision: 1.272
Committed: Wed Dec 1 02:54:00 2004 UTC (19 years, 5 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_2
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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: hotkey font resizing
6 TODO: +ssc -ssr seems to scroll at wrong time, scrolling up the empty sec. scr.
7 TODO: multibyte support for setwmname et al.
8 TODO: tabbed windows
9 TODO: there are other todo items, but they are not in this file.
10 TODO: OnTheSpot editing.
11 TODO: searchable backlog
12 TODO: meta-tagging of data by regex (my dream project)
13 TODO: triple-click == select full output line
14 TODO: double-click: more intelligent (urls etc.)
15
16 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
17 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth
18 (forgot who reported this).
19 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
20 on high-latency networks.
21 - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
22 in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
23 - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
24 - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
25 on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
26 by Gunnar Ritter.
27 - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
28 or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
29
30 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
31 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
32 -ssc/-ssr settings.
33 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
34 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
35 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
36 - add compile fix for darwin.
37 - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
38 - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
39 - upgraded iom.[Ch].
40
41 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
42 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
43 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
44 - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
45 - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
46 - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
47 - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
48 - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
49 ... terminated by a fix.
50 - new supported preeeditType "None".
51 - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
52 - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
53 - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
54 for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
55 causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
56 (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
57 - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
58 when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
59 - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
60 though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
61 - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
62 - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
63 - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
64 as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
65 input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
66 due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
67 in tracking this down.
68 - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
69 make install) with the correct program name and other info.
70
71 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
72 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
73 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
74
75 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
76 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
77 differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
78 installed if tic is available.
79 - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
80 - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
81 - removed README.unicode.
82 - support select&paste of tab characters.
83 - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
84 by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
85 - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
86 and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
87 - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
88 screen updates with curses.
89 - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
90 by spaces.
91 - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
92 (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
93 - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
94 is just too slow for this to work.
95 - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
96 where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
97 implement. use --enable-styles.
98 - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
99 (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
100 supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
101 for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
102 - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
103 compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
104 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
105 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
106 - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
107 speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
108 (only for non-bold right now).
109 - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
110 - better default font size and style.
111 - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
112 into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
113 single character against the base font extents and will only
114 use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
115 - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
116 be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
117 more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
118 rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
119 - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
120 - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
121 screen height.
122 - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
123 - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
124 - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
125 off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
126 - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
127 - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
128 - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
129 - removed OSC 702.
130 - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
131 confused by it rather than using it.
132
133 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
134 - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
135 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
136 - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
137 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
138 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
139 approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
140 "cannot create input context" in most cases.
141 - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
142 at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
143 - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
144 previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
145 close).
146 - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
147 not, this was a major blocker in implementign tabbed termianls.
148 - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
149 - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
150 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
151 could not be created.
152 - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
153 #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
154 condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
155 sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
156 command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
157 wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
158 works.
159 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
160 - document more escape sequences.
161 - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
162 - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
163 character is a sensible operation.
164 - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
165 - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
166 reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
167 - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
168 - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
169 made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
170 with selections).
171
172 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
173 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
174 windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
175 needs access to a local shell window).
176 - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
177 Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
178 character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
179 function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
180 a little window or so) would be welcome.
181 - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
182 - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
183 a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
184 - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
185 - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
186 added there.
187 - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
188 - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
189 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
190 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
191 instead of being ignored.
192 - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
193 queries, as they are harmless(tm).
194 - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
195 find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
196 but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
197 - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
198 people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
199 - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
200 "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
201 - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
202 - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
203 which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
204 needs testing anyways.
205 - more complete compile options help output.
206 - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
207 Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
208 provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
209 providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
210 Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
211 - minor doc fix.
212
213 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
214 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
215 show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
216 released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
217 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
218 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
219 memmove :)
220 - minor cleanups.
221 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
222 (debian bug #169415).
223 - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
224 - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
225 - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
226 - updated config.guess.
227
228 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
229 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
230 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
231 make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
232 - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
233 - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
234 - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
235 - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
236 speeding up scrolling immensely.
237 - various other optimizations.
238 - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
239
240 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
241 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
242 - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
243 - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
244 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
245 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
246 Mikael Magnusson).
247 - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
248 Mikael Magnusson).
249 - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
250 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
251 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
252
253 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
254 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
255 if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
256 - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
257 was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
258 - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
259 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
260 with ^V (SYN).
261 - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
262
263 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
264 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
265 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
266 - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
267 in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
268 well as with other terminal emulators.
269 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
270 (reported by elmex).
271 - find more fonts by default for japanese.
272 - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
273 the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
274 - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
275 Bloch.
276
277 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
278 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
279 less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
280 sorry).
281 - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
282 make it a little bit more correct c++).
283
284 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
285 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
286 getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
287 - minor i18n issue fixes.
288
289 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
290 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
291 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
292 - fix some minor bugs.
293
294 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
295 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
296 for the keymappings.
297 - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
298 (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
299 - xterm: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is an
300 extension and is slightly ugly.
301 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
302 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
303 secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
304 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
305 - xterm: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
306 - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
307 overwritten (as is common).
308 - xterm: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
309 - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
310
311 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
312 - minor doc corrections.
313 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
314 avoid clashes with xterm.
315 - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
316 - xterm: make set window colour and other requests report window
317 colour when arg is "?".
318 - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
319 - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
320 cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
321 fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
322 - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
323 when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
324 (FRILLS).
325 - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
326 - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
327 asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
328 - set _NET_WM_PID.
329
330 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
331 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
332 - support more 8-bit controls.
333 - more informative error messages.
334 - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
335 - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
336 - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
337 (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
338 - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
339
340 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
341 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
342 - implement xterm private mode 1049.
343 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
344 - removed old selection style completely.
345 - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
346 - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
347 reduces binary and distro size a bit.
348 - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
349 be used from within rxvt.
350 - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
351
352 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
353 - code cleanup release.
354 - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
355 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
356 - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
357 MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
358 all files.
359 - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
360 --enable-xgetdefaults.
361
362 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
363 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
364 precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
365 also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
366 - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
367 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
368 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
369 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
370 - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
371 working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
372 - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
373 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
374 --disable-xgetdefault.
375 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
376 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
377 unicode character.
378 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
379 get it wrong.
380 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
381
382 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
383 - NOTE: the name of the binary and ressources were changed in
384 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
385 settings.
386 - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
387 - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
388 - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
389 causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
390 mbrtowc.
391 - more robust encoding name matching.
392 - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
393 - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
394 - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
395 - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
396 resources and docs.
397 - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
398
399 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
400 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
401 - some doc cleanup
402 - configure cleanup
403 - viscii enabled by default
404 - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
405
406 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
407 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
408
409 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
410 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
411 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
412 up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
413 - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
414 startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
415 rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
416 crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
417 - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
418 - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
419 - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
420 keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
421 reported by joel reed.
422 - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
423 - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
424 - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
425 being selected.
426 - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
427 - removed greek support.
428 - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
429 - correct cursor width if !focus.
430 - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
431 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard block
432 contributed.
433 - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
434 - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
435 - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
436 - many other minor bugfixes.
437
438 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
439 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
440 new bugs, this should not change much.
441 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
442 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
443 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
444 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
445 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
446 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
447 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
448
449 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
450 - further cleanups.
451 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
452 color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
453 use reverse video, not _blink_.
454 - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
455 please drop me a note.
456
457 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
458 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
459 - blinking text.
460 - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
461 normal text when colorBD is not set.
462 (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
463 was never implemented
464
465 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
466 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
467 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
468 - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
469 parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
470 reported by fefe
471 - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
472 Markus Demleitner
473 - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
474 and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
475 - completely removed non-working graphics mode
476
477 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
478 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
479 - small font tunings
480 - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
481 - better error reporting for unknown options
482
483 1.3 2003-12-26
484 - fix a bug in font height selection
485 - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
486 - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
487 - much faster x11 font selection
488
489 1.2 2003-12-24
490 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug form the original rxvt
491 - better font matching
492 - better memory management (less memory)
493 - new fallback: gnu freefont
494
495 1.1 2003-12-18
496 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
497 - Support for non-utf-8-locales
498 - much improved font choosing
499
500 1.0
501 - first release
502 - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
503 - removed rclock et al.
504 - initial conversion to C++
505