Lines marked with "xterm:" indicate either xterm features ported to rxvt or changed rxvt behaviour to make it more compatible to xterm (usually xfree86's xterm). TODO: hotkey font resizing TODO: +ssc -ssr seems to scroll at wrong time, scrolling up the empty sec. scr. TODO: multibyte support for setwmname et al. TODO: tabbed windows TODO: there are other todo items, but they are not in this file. TODO: OnTheSpot editing. TODO: searchable backlog TODO: meta-tagging of data by regex (my dream project) TODO: triple-click == select full output line TODO: double-click: more intelligent (urls etc.) 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch. obviously in locales not having these characters they should still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth. Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them thoroughly. - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball now, too. 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (forgot who reported this). - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns on high-latency networks. - wide characters shift the correct number of characters in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter. - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva. - make storage of tab movements as characters optional on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request by Gunnar Ritter. - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva. 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004 - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of -ssc/-ssr settings. - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected). - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball. - add compile fix for darwin. - configure fix for transparency without tinting. - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere. - upgraded iom.[Ch]. 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004 - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts. - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam. - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental. - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C. - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling. - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating. - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug". ... terminated by a fix. - new supported preeeditType "None". - added FAQ about possible compose key problems. - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion). - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking) (patch by Kuang-che Wu). - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...). - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly, though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways). - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ. - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback. - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods, as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help in tracking this down. - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during make install) with the correct program name and other info. 3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004 - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions. 3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and installed if tic is available. - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work. - tweaked src/features.h a bit. - removed README.unicode. - support select&paste of tab characters. - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson). - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen. - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering screen updates with curses. - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced by spaces. - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore (likewise for other names chosen at configure time). - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft is just too slow for this to work. - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support, where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can implement. use --enable-styles. - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable for terminals with "odd" number of colours). - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul compared to the old rxvt terminfo. - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width. - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found (only for non-bold right now). - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences. - better default font size and style. - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting into the base font, but to offset this it will check each single character against the base font extents and will only use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge). - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster. - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson). - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the screen height. - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay. - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken. - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson). - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading. - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented. - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755. - removed OSC 702. - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be confused by it rather than using it. 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004 - new configure option --enable-iso14755. - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :). - extended the FAQ section in the manpage. - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages, due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the "cannot create input context" in most cases. - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off). - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe close). - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or not, this was a major blocker in implementign tabbed termianls. - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson). - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson). - fix crash on window close when the input method or context could not be created. - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually works. - set correct pixel size in struct winsize. - document more escape sequences. - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1). - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a character is a sensible operation. - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling. - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better reflect on their function, renamed many variables. - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi. - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible with selections). 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker needs access to a local shell window). - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with a little window or so) would be welcome. - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456). - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when a message was logged after startup (a rare case). - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod. - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be added there. - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7). - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated. - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos. - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode instead of being ignored. - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour queries, as they are harmless(tm). - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly, but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it. - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though. - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm: "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows". - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency. - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg, which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which needs testing anyways. - more complete compile options help output. - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode. Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from Christopher Casey - minor doc fix. 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I released it with that bug. :( Fixed. - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies. speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable memmove :) - minor cleanups. - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage (debian bug #169415). - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265). - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386). - updated configure script to current autoconf standards. - updated config.guess. 3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code. - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :). - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable). - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh). - fixed blinking underlined and negative text. - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets, speeding up scrolling immensely. - various other optimizations. - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson. 3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch). - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set. - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch). - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson. - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by Mikael Magnusson). - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by Mikael Magnusson). - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson). - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt). - disable-xim now really disables xim code. 3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson ), if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb). - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede . - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above. - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it with ^V (SYN). - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option). 3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004 - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177) as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :). - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as well as with other terminal emulators. - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale (reported by elmex). - find more fonts by default for japanese. - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too. - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard Bloch. 3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004 - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work, sorry). - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should make it a little bit more correct c++). 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035). - minor i18n issue fixes. 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004 - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability). - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability). - fix some minor bugs. 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except for the keymappings. - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes. (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt). - xterm: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is an extension and is slightly ugly. - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673). - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267). - xterm: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting. - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are overwritten (as is common). - xterm: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049. - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de. 2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004 - minor doc corrections. - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to avoid clashes with xterm. - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports. - xterm: make set window colour and other requests report window colour when arg is "?". - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds. - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc. - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference). (FRILLS). - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default. - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least). asprintf replacement is still missing(!). - set _NET_WM_PID. 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004 - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups. - support more 8-bit controls. - more informative error messages. - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions. - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements: - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block). - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510). 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004 - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit. - implement xterm private mode 1049. - fix manpages (debian bug #236824). - removed old selection style completely. - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars. - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore. reduces binary and distro size a bit. - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can be used from within rxvt. - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f). 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004 - code cleanup release. - fix compile problems without --enable-combining. - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened. - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX, MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from all files. - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without --enable-xgetdefaults. 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3. - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8 selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode. - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese... - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly. - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux. working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode. - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters. - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when --disable-xgetdefault. - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific unicode character. - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL get it wrong. - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 - NOTE: the name of the binary and ressources were changed in this version, see README.configure if you want the old settings. - added plain "big5" encoding into CN. - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt. - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary, causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to mbrtowc. - more robust encoding name matching. - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters. - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces. - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars. - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated resources and docs. - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing. 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004 - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly. - some doc cleanup - configure cleanup - viscii enabled by default - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95). 1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004 - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people. 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC. - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory. - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash). - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup. - fix various memleaks in rxvtd. - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim. reported by joel reed. - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; \007). - re-enabled menubar (experimental!). - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from being selected. - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; \007). - removed greek support. - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled. - correct cursor width if !focus. - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch. - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard block contributed. - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set. - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty. - changed default terminal name to "rxvt". - many other minor bugfixes. 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing new bugs, this should not change much. - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. - blinking and selections work slightly better now. - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004 - further cleanups. - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection use reverse video, not _blink_. - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back, please drop me a note. 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004 - cleanups, minor bugfixes. - blinking text. - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of normal text when colorBD is not set. (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).) was never implemented 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself - colors were sometimes not used correctly because parts of the code expected a monochrome display. reported by fefe - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by Markus Demleitner - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1 - completely removed non-working graphics mode 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c - small font tunings - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed - better error reporting for unknown options 1.3 2003-12-26 - fix a bug in font height selection - autoscale scalable x11 fonts - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters - much faster x11 font selection 1.2 2003-12-24 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug form the original rxvt - better font matching - better memory management (less memory) - new fallback: gnu freefont 1.1 2003-12-18 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale. - Support for non-utf-8-locales - much improved font choosing 1.0 - first release - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26 - removed rclock et al. - initial conversion to C++