The changes for rxvt-unicode are summarized in the file ../Changes. 2.7.10 to 2.7.11 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing et al. fixed handling of cursor colour when reverse colour is displayed fixed utmp writing if we have ttyslot fixed compile when --with-encoding=kr added hiding of mouse pointer while the user is typing or from mouse inactivity, with configure --enable-pointer-blank, resource pointerBlank (default: false) and resource pointerBlankDelay (default: 2 seconds) added "-bc" blinking cursor, configure --enable-cursor-blink Glyn Kennington added feature ACS_ASCII which converts ACS line drawing characters to similar ASCII characters, resource acsChars Rob McMullen added selection scrolling - scrolling viewpoint when making a selection and going past top/bottom of window, with configure --enable-selectionscrolling Chris Wareham added rconf utility for rclock appointment configuration 2.7.9 to 2.7.10 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing et al. removed screen dump feature as it can aid as a security hole removed menubar escape sequence access as it can aid a security hole removed reporting of title and icon settings as they can aid a security hole Mikko Leppänen fixed clearing problem when internalBorder is zero Steve O added Cygwin port Rob McMullen fixed handling of control characters inside escape sequences added resource "mouseWheelScrollPage" to allow the mouse wheel scroll a page full added support for VT52 commands 2.7.8 to 2.7.9 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing et al. added -sbt/--thickness to allow user-supplied scrollbar width (not yet available with NeXT style scrollbars) Matthew W. Roberts fixed rclock -iconic option added rclock day of month on clockface (define DATE_ON_CLOCK_FACE in feature.h) added rclock "-mailspawn cmd" if MAIL_SPAWN is not hard coded in feature.h Kazutoshi Kubota added 256 colour mode (instead of the base 16 colour mode) with configure --enable-256-color 2.7.7 to 2.7.8 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing et al. fixed determination of NumLock key, noticed by Matthew Gabeler-Lee fixed continual and slipwheel scrolling, noticed by Joshua Swink fixed connecting with IM whenever it is started, partly from Tung-Han Hsieh fixed Ultrix acquiring useful pty/tty pair, noticed by Bert De Knuydt fixed CSI sequence parser overriding a 0 parameter with default value changed -ip to not clear ancestor windows when using inherit pixmap transparency type added -ipf/--inheritPixmapforce to clear ancestor windows when -ip and inherit pixmap transparency is used added "-hc colour" (define OPTION_HC in feature.h) to provide background highlighting of selection, partly from Christian W. Zuckschwerdt added -j/--jumpScroll to provide jump or smooth scrolling, defaults to jump scrolling as per previous behaviour Stephen Isard fixed DECSTBM sequence default when only one parameter is given Rudolf Jaksa added basic support for $XAPPLRESDIR/Rxvt resources T. Alexander Popiel added --scrollBar_align (top|bottom|...) for alignment of scrollbar thumb with middle button. Defaults to centre as per prior state. Supercedes FUNKY_SCROLL_BEHAVIOUR 2.7.6 to 2.7.7 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing et al. fixed check for GLIBC and STREAMS pty/tty types, noticed by Venkatesh Krishnamurthi fixed check for PTC pty/tty type, noticed by Andreas Bierfert fixed to not automatically clear selection on screen size change, noticed by Dominik Vogt fixed a possible buffer overflow problem, noticed by Samuel Dralet fixed to reallow parallel builds fixed builds for some SYSV utmp/utmpx systems fixed INCR transfers fixed resource "greektoggle_key" as per doc/README.greek, noticed by Martin Husemann fixed STREAMS again, hopefully the last time changed overstrike pixel dropping avoidance to speed/size optimise changed define WTMP_ONLY_ON_LOGIN in feature.h to be the default added CSI s & CSI u as alternative save & restore cursor sequences added pasting-only support for SECONDARY and CLIPBOARD selections, automatically tried if internal selection and PRIMARY selections are not present. CUT_BUFFER0 is tried last Kazutoshi Kubota added "-lsp " option ("--lineSpace ") to give specified spacing between rows with configure --enable-linespace Tomohiro KUBOTA fixed some font default calculations to match previous behaviour Ali Rahimi added slip wheel support providing continual scrolling with the control key depressed and using the mouse wheel as an accelerator. Control key release stops scrolling Mark Schreiber added -sw/--scrollWithBuffer to try to make views into the scrollback buffer stay unmoving upon new lines (needs -si) 2.7.5 to 2.7.6 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing et al. fixed build with XTERM_COLOR_CHANGE undefined, noticed by John Waggenspack fixed build for Solaris/SunOS (maybe others) using STREAMS fixed default icon name, noticed by Jeremy C. Reed fixed setting of icon name with -e argument, noticed by John Waggenspack fixed problems with selection by changing some types and type casting fixed some parallel build problems fixed text placement in graphics mode fixed some build problems with graphics/qplot fixed reverse video mode to act like the invocation option fixed query of locale ("Setting locale failed.") when locale is set fixed autowrap bug when restoring cursor from last column, noticed by witek@mat.uni.torun.pl fixed build & run when PREFER_24BIT is undefined fixed loading of fonts with noenc multichar encoding, noticed by Mark White fixed an abort on sending some selections, from Xianping Ge fixed tty opening for systems with openpty(), e.g. OSF1 fixed build for utmpx/wtmpx platforms fixed a bug in memmove() if --enable-strings is given, noticed by Larry W. Virden fixed some termcap/terminfo entries fixed some division operations to use the same integer type changed configure detection method for pty/ttys changed handling of ConfigureNotify events for fast event streams changed internal handling of window size calculation changed internal handling of window size and placement manipulation changed define PREFER_24BIT in feature.h to be set via configure --enable-24bit (default is now off) changed screen refresh to optimise X calls more, noticeable with slower machines or over network displays changed pty/tty code to be able to be built separately for testing changed selection sending to send the original raw form if locale conversion fails updated libtool for configure added DEC private modes 1047 / 1048 (no ti/te handling yet) added SCROLL_ON_HOMEEND_KEYS in feature.h a la SCROLL_ON_UPDOWN_KEYS from Marius Gedminas added "tests" target in main directory to build and run basic tests added (frills) -tcw (--tripleclickwords) alternative triple click selection which selects words to the end of possibly-wrapped lines with trailing blanks and blank lines removed Chuan-kai Lin and Brian Mays added -mcc option (--multibyte_cursor) for multibyte cursor movement in legacy programs Maxime Froment fixed placement with OverTheSpot input method fixed characters sent through IM being truncated to 4 bytes fixed encoding method being overridden by default encoding method added loading of locale specific app-defaults from directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$LC_CTYPE/app-defaults/Rxvt (see XAPPLOADDIRLOCALE is feature.h) Tomohiro KUBOTA added method to provide base font sets based on user's locale added more flexible font allocation, specifying a maximum number of fonts in feature.h instead of a set number Marius Gedminas added --enable-smart-resize which may reposition the window on resizing so that we try to stay within the screen boundaries 2.7.3 to 2.7.5 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing et al. fixed scrollTtyKeypress not active for all keypresses, noticed by Reuben Thomas added -xrm option to accept dummy invocation arguments, from Christian W. Zuckschwerdt & Chris Green fixed documentation for options: -tr, -ic, -pt, -im, -mod, -xrm; and resources: scrollBar_right, scrollBar_floating, scrollTtyOutput, scrollTtyKeypress, preeditType, inputMethod, modifier. fixed OSC sequences to accept 7 and 8 bit ST as well as BEL added MAX_COLS & MAX_ROWS in feature.h to limit columns/rows on resize added copy root pixmap variant of transparency - make this the default with previous method as fallback fixed allocation of new lines to not set base attributes, including underline or reverse video information, noticed by Brian Mays added ability for different scrollbars to be compiled in, determined by --scrollstyle fixed Meta key detection - has priority over Alt, noticed by Paul D. Smith fixed configure check for mawk/gawk/nawk/awk added use of libtool in build procedure added SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY to feature.h to scroll the screen when no swap is compiled in and a change screen request is made removed slightly buggy ConfigureNotify queue/ignore from our resizes fixed use of extended character classes, from Samoylov Olleg fixed timeout in select() call when unmapped, noticed by Tore Bjorkeli changed feature.h NO_BOLDUNDERLINE to NO_BOLD_UNDERLINE_REVERSE added support for XCopyArea() on screen display - good for slower links fixed CSI parameter parsing, including omitted parameters fixed allocation of new lines when in reverse video mode added answerbackString resource which sets the reply to ENQ (CTRL-E) fixed InheritPixmap interaction with fvwm2 by delaying a bit to allow the WM to do its stuff before we meddle with its windows Thomas Woerner added colorRV resource for reverse video colour (dependent on NO_BOLD_UNDERLINE_REVERSE in feature.h) Jun Morimoto fixed argument checking in rclock - ignore bad arguments Matthew W. Roberts added -mailfile option to rclock Christian W. Zuckschwerdt added OSC sequences to change base colours; also cursor, highlight, bold, pointer and underline colours. See rxvtRef Paul Sheer added initial INCR (incremental pasting) support 2.7.2 to 2.7.3 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed clean up (utmp/wtmp/etc.) on fatal signal, noticed by Jim Diamond added use of configure options --program-prefix, --program-suffix & --program-transform-name, allowing, say, Kanji users to do --program-transform-name='s,rxvt,kxvt,;' for installing changed configure --with-encoding value "euckr" to "kr" to match multichar_encoding option and resource values added configure --with-encoding value "noenc" (and multichar_encoding option and resource values) to disable encoding allowing normal eight bit characters in multichar compile fixed -si/+si option, noticed by Thomas Lofgren fixed detection of struct utmpx, noticed by Paul 'TBBle' Hampson added basic support for openpty() which should help with people on Alpha platform using Tru64/ Jun Morimoto added basic argument checking for rclock to detect missing arguments Tung-Han Hsieh fixed configure notify bypass checking for self window configurations fixed fontset creation to match sizes properly and recreate fontset on size change Chih-Wei Huang added fontset (locale dependent) menubars added example Big5 menu Hans de Goede added colour determination for low colour (4 to 8 bit) displays 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed screen refresh output to handle more cases changed resource storage to a struct rather than a char* arrary, to aid debugging changed how ptys/ttys are opened (again) fixed processing of some resources to strip double-quotes when using XGetDefaults() and also for backspace_key/delete_key fixed large paste problem, noticed by Dominik Vogt fixed utmp removal problem for SYSV style utmps changed BORDERWIDTH in feature.h to EXTERNALBORDERWIDTH to clarify its usage. added (frills) resources "internalBorder" (-b) and "externalBorder" (-w)(-bw)(-borderwidth) added NO_BELL to feature.h to allow disabling all bell indications D J Hawkey Jr added QNX support added logging into lastlog in login shells (-ls option) Oskar Liljeblad added SCROLL_ON_UPDOWN_KEYS to feature.h to allow scrolling via (shift|meta|ctrl) modifier and up/down keys, default off for backward (2.6.x) compatibility 2.7.0 to 2.7.1 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing cleaned up CSI processing slightly fixed clearing of pixel droppings on right side of cell added clearing of pixel droppings for fonts which exceed the left side of their cells, noticed by J Scott Berg changed --disable-memset to --enable-strings and not enable by default added LOCAL_X_IS_UNIX to feature.h to work-around Irix problem, opens unix:0.0 instead of :0 or :0.0 fixed some configure errors changed how ptys/ttys are opened and which is opened by parent or child added delay to screen refresh when receiving a fast stream of X events Jim Knoble fixed scrollbar slider jitter added named constants for scrollbar calculations MANTANI Nobutaka changed interaction with XIM server to fix several problems 2.6.? to 2.7.0 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing added OSC escape sequence #55 to dump scrollback/screen to a file SEO Young-Jin fixed XGetDefaults() to use standard files (and then some) 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed setting of tty permission/ownership with grantpt(). ie. don't fixed configuration for some systems changed a timeout to previous setting giving smoother scrolling. fixed reversed --scrollTtyOutput (noticed (this time) by Thomas Lofgren ) fixed offset for writing into BSD utmp file added seperate cursor save/restore information for secondary screen fixed CSI cursor movement fixed typos causing compile failure - reported by various fixed UNSHIFTED_SCROLLKEYS Mike Hopkirk (Hops) fixed SB_BORDER scrollbar delineator 2.6.PRE3 to 2.6.0 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing et al. fixed configuration for many systems Ha Shao added support for ZH_CN (GB2312) fonts and encoding. 2.6.PRE2 to 2.6.PRE3 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed several OOB memory accesses and leaks (mostly found by Rob Somerville ) added shift up/down arrows a la shift prior/next added SCROLL_ON_SHIFT, SCROLL_ON_META, SCROLL_ON_CTRL to feature.h Vaughn Cato fixed jerky selection for some people (esp. Linux) Peter H. Chou fixed floating scrollbar (trough) to not affect NeXT scrollbar MANTANI Nobutaka fixed two problems on X Input Method: 1) Can't display preedit area in "OverTheSpot" input style with some input methods. 2) The location of preedit area in "OffTheSpot" input style is wrong. Yasuda Tsutomu <_tom_@sf.airnet.ne.jp> fixed some multichar set (Kanji) selection added better selection request type conversion 2.6.PRE1 to 2.6.PRE2 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed declaration position for COLORFGBG env var - really fixed this time (noticed by Rob Somerville ) fixed transparent term reparenting/configure issues fixed some documentation (noticed by Richard Browne ) MANTANI Nobutaka added XIM (X Input Method) enhancements added input of multibyte characters with XIM (X Input Method) enhancements via input styles "OverTheSpot", "OffTheSpot" and "Root" added configure option --enable-xim added resources "inputMethod" (-im), "preeditType" (-pt) changed configure to search for libxpg4, needed for FreeBSD's setlocale() 2.4.10 to 2.6.PRE1 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed scrollbar slider drawing to have a minimum size (noticed by Brian Korver ) fixed backward #ifdef's on JUMP_MOUSE_WHEEL fixed coredump on paste after terminal reset fixed bad marking on selection with old selection (noticed by Paul Slootman ) fixed bad cursor colour setting (noticed by Louis-David Mitterrand ) fixed octal recognition from strings (hopefully no-one noticed) fixed proto generation awk script (noticed by Paul D. Smith ) changed distribution to include protos, for bad systems added configure check for XPointer (needed for SunOS; comments by Moritz Barsnick ) fixed export of COLORFGBG (noticed by Moritz Barsnick ) Alfredo K. Kojima changed NEXT_SCROLLBAR code to produce real NEXTSTEP scrollers added inheritPixmap support - terminal window uses parent pixmap Sasha Vasko fixed handling of background change via property _XROOTPMAP_ID 2.4.9 to 2.4.10 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed screen refreshing - significant reduction of XDrawString() et al calls in many cases leading to large speed increase, especially for remote X clients fixed source code const stuff fixed DISPLAY_IS_IP feature changed window creation, menubar reading, etc. order and removed one of my earlier hacks changed configure to be less extreme about X libs 2.4.8 to 2.4.9 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing changed screen allocation to be safer added several xterm style window operations and reports DEC style escape sequences fixed handling of some DEC style escape sequences fixed menubar display fixed outline cursor removal fixed clear selection when writing within a selection added resources to handle backspace and delete changed source code organisation again - also be nicer when making in a different directory added probe of ModifierMapping for Meta/Alt and NumLock keys removed resource to set Meta/Alt key added support to allow compilation of both old and new selection styles changed internals - allocate rs_* as rs[Rs_*] Stanislav Meduna fixed checking of Xsetlocale(), setlocale() in configure 2.4.7 to 2.4.8 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed XPM handling of position in geometry changed XPM tiling to have the X server tile in the basic case moved several configuration options from feature.h to configure fixed introduced pixel dropping bug when RS_DIRTY was removed added `troughColor' resource - the original patch written by Reid D Rivenburgh (noted below) was lost and never added fixed border pixel colour - if not set, use foreground not background fixed handling of cursorColor/cursorColor/colorBD/colorUL to always use the _current_ fg/bg colours appropriately if unset changed source code organisation - moved some things into screen.h - to allow other add-ons to access screen structures without including all of rxvt.h changed internals - ripped out RS_Cursor/RS_Select to make basic multichar sets (not Kanji/Big5) always enabled - thus handle selection and cursor display differently fixed bug on scroll lines affecting selection changed rmemset to use a type which is the same size as an (int *) - based on comments by Paul Slootman fixed pointer colour change on default fg colour change changed handling of backspace/delete keys - if not disabled during ./configure then settable via resources - defaults similar to previous 2.4.6 to 2.4.7 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing moved several configuration options from feature.h to configure added configure option to use system memset() added support for no multichar sets to allow 2 byte rendition type changed rmemset for slightly more optimised execution changed source code organisation slightly Guillaume Laurent added Meta modifier selectable via resource ``modifier'' John E. Davis added print mode to accept ESC sequence variation 2.4.5 to 2.4.6 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing merged support for Big5 & Kanji. changed short option: fk --> fm changed long options: kfont/cfont --> mfont changed long option: kanji_encoding --> multichar_encoding changed font list in feature.h - user define list of fonts fixed configure check for Xlocale() added configure option --enable-dmalloc (Gray Watson's malloc) added configure option --enable-dlmalloc (Doug Lea's malloc) added support for Cygnus Solution's GNU-Win32 extensions (b18 tested) fixed utmp/wtmp handling on machines with updwtmpx() added support for old rxvt style selection - OLD_SELECTION changed define of struct screen_t to rxvt.h changed internal handling of bold overstrike pixel dropping - prescan line changed internal handling of selection mechanism to properly support multiple methods - and optimized changed internal handling of selection sync'ing - and optimized added assert()s via DEBUG_STRICT define to catch some possible bugs fixed scrollbar colour on mono displays changed privilege revocation to before we do anything fixed selection clearing when across the screen boundary and we swap screens fixed resize / screen refresh order when changing scrollbar display fixed font handling when we're given per_char of NULL changed internal handling of row width - maximum line length is now bound by a short - not enforced changed rxvt.1 and refer.html to yodl source Bruce Stephens added support for buttons 4 and 5 (eg. on a mouse with wheel) to scroll screen Frank Chen Hsiung Chan fixed clash of use of BIG5 as define and enum. Also typo fix. John Eikenberry added window_group use to window manager properties added NeXT scrollbar style - group up and down buttons together Denis N. Antonioli fixed setting of application icon name and title Adam Spiers fixed enumeration of *.keysym.* in resources 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 *_Official Release_* \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing changed the approach at the Boldoverstrike-Pixeldroppings front temporarily fixed a bug in the exposure handling added the --enable-ttygid Oezguer Kesim switched rxvt licence to GPL changed copyrights of the modules fixed the terminfo/termcap entries Mark Olesen FINALLY added Double-Click mouse reporting. Uses the upper bits of the Button character for X11 reporting so should cause no compatibility problems. * State = ( - SPACE) & 60 4 = Shift 8 = Meta 16 = Control 32 = Double Click (Rxvt extension) NOTE: no Release is reported after a double-click and the Release for the first click of a double-click is not reported. This also means the Release event of a very fast click/release won't be reported. 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed a bug in the selection mechanism Oezguer Kesim fixed the fontchange-windowresize-racecondition-bug (thanks Geoff!) fixed the broken console-support under solaris added a new terminfo entry for rxvt, based on the one which comes with ncurses (thanks Larry!) some changes on aclocal.m4 and configure removed the XTERM_COLOR_TERM option from feature.h - use --with-term=NAME instead updated the man-page Kikutani Makoto fixed a bug when copy&paste with kanji Paul D. Smith fixed a bug which prevented rxvt to compile when configured with --enable-xterm-scroll 2.4.2 to 2.4.3 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing fixed a bug in scrolling lots of text more work on avoiding the pixel droppings further cleanups Oezguer Kesim some changes on the configure script Frank Chen Hsiung Chan added experimental big5 support Reid D Rivenburgh added the "troughColor" resource Mike Hopkirk (Hops) added support of SCO OSr5 pty naming (also UW SysVr5) correction of pty hang with large paste buffer (happens on on all tested platforms) fixed Weird default scroll thumb behaviour fixed incorrect setting of WM_COMMAND if specified with -e switch fixed # of lines of context between screen pages (Shift-Prior/Next) Visual delineation of Scrollbar and vt wdw with dark internal border 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing new anti-bold-overstrike-pixel-dropping (plan 3) Oezguer Kesim fixed a bug which caused rxvt to dump core after resizing and selecting 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing added --with-xpm-{include,library} to autoconf/a4local.m4 added VERYBOLD feature fixed some misspelling in autoconf/configure.in added `DEC private modes' 1010 and 1011 for scroll-to-bottom on TTY output inhibit and scroll-to-bottom on keypress together with resources and switches fixed Bold Overstrike Pixel Dropping (Yes Sir!) fixed a bug in scr_E() fixed ^[[*J behaviour - clear to end, clear to beginning, clear whole screen was broken Oezguer Kesim removed DONT_GUESS_BACKSPACE. Instead, you may define either FORCE_BACKSPACE or FORCE_DELETE or leave both undefined in order to get ^H, ^? or the current stty settings for 'erase' fixed positioning of text in the top menubar. fixed some missing #define's fixed conditions for MONO_BOLD in scr_refresh() to make VERYBOLD work. Christoph L. Spiel fixed usage of KEYSYM_RESOURCE only when NO_RESOURCES is *not* defined Paul Slootman added a few XK_KP_* ifdef's in order to get rxvt work with X11R4 Major changes from 2.21b* to 2.4.0 \----------------------------------- Geoff Wing screen.c rewritten with changes including: internal management of screen lines changed rmemset() used as a fast memset() replacement selection now the same as XTerm selection several Kanji display fixes Kanji properly selectable for EUC JP encoding added continuous scrolling with scrollbar buttons fixed colours when using XPM background pixmaps smaller than the window added resources -sr/+sr, -st/+st fixed application Cursor Keys added many configure enhancements added delimiting line between XTerm scrollbars as per XTerm fixed utmp support added minimal support for proportional fonts added integrated use for Gray Watson's dmalloc package added automatic prototype generation via src/makeprotos-sed Grant McDorman added PREFER_24BIT: if the screen is 24 bit, then use 24 bit windows even if default is 8 bit fixed utmpx support added handling for Keypad left/right/up/down, etc. added META8_OPTION for all function keys added RXVT_TERMINFO for setting TERMINFO fixed some bugs in menubar added expanded keysym support Paul D. Smith fixed title setting fixed for building in other directories added pointerColor for changing pointer colour added borderColor for changing border line colour in XTerm scrollbar 2.21a3 to 2.21b* \--------------- 1. From: Conrad Link Fixed a bug in the OffiX Drag and Drop support. rxvt inserted two instances of directories or links when they were dropped onto rxvt. 2. From: Fixed a bug that makes rxvt getting constantly "NoExpose" events which it is not handling. 3. From: Mark Olesen Fixed a bug that caused rxvt to hang indefinitly waiting for a terminating ^G on an XTerm `ESC]' sequence. 4. From: Bernard PERROT Mark Olesen Fixed a bug that prevented to handle DEC VT2xx's ApLineDel correctly 5. From: Mark Olesen Now the Shift/Ctrl cursor key mappings are enabled regardless of App-Cursor settings 6. From: Kai Petzke Fixed a bug with respect to cursor movement. rxvt now handles the 'G' and 'd' sequences correctly 7. From: Geoff Wing Fixed a couple of things in utmp.c 8. From: Denis N. Antonioli Added the "-tn" option and corresponding Xresource variable "termcap". This option specifies the name of the terminal type to be set in the TERM environment variable. 2.20 to 2.21a* \------------- 1. Oops, forgot to include time headers in menubar.c 2. Finally got the correct DEC sequence to toggling the behaviour of the backspace key and removed the other non-standard ones. If anyone has a listing of DEC escape sequences they'd like to donate ... 3. Fixed a bug that prevented an XPM file from being found if it were specified with an absolute path and a geometry string. Made the default scaling zero (tiled) since this is by far the most popular use. 4. The Motif-style scrollbar is back as a compile-time option. 5. Added BUGS file and (thankfully) moved coordination of the project to Oezguer Kesim who also has a mailing list for rxvt development Rxvt Workers To subscribe to the list send email to with the body: subscribe 6. Semi-retirement and finish my thesis ... bye for now - /mark --- Oezguer started working on rxvt 7. Fixed a bug in the new menubar-feature. There were several unchecked strings strcpy'ed which caused rxvt immediately to dump core. 8. From: Robert Bihlmeyer Fixed a bug in rclock.c which prevented it to compile correctly. 9. From: Mark Olesen Overstrike boldfonts and pixmaps now work together without pixel droppings on the screen (at least under Linux). 10. From: Mark Olesen Modified autoconf support: memmove() replacement function supplied for those systems that need it, libXpm should now be correctly found (set in src/Makefile *not* in config.h) 11. From: Mark Olesen Converted doc/rxvt.ref to HTML format. doc/html/refer.html = master copy doc/refer.txt = text version saved using Netscape. All HTML documents are put in here, to ease installation elsewhere. 12. From: Mark Olesen Moved some file search function from main.c and some string functions from xdefaults.c to misc.c. Changed the implementation details so that `keysym' resource is also available as a command-line long option ... even if you have compiled with USE_XGETDEFAULT. 13. From: Mark Olesen When a new pixmap is loaded, revert to the default scaling. 14. From: Mark Olesen Reworked the menubar to permit multiple menubars in a circular linked list (and all the management functions that entains) and new functions including the following: * reading from files * dumping all the menubars * clearing a menu (without removing it) * setting a backgroudPixmap * and many other features. The menu syntax has changed very slightly from the last version, but now provides greater flexibility ... see refer.html for details. Added the `menu' resource/long-option so a startup menu can be specified. eg, rxvt -menu my.menu -e rlogin machine -l user 2.19 to 2.20 \----------- 1. You can now add snazzy looking menus to any plain (non-X) text application. At the moment, the menuing system is simple but functional. The syntax for controlling the menubar is documented in doc/rxvt.doc, but note that an XTerm sequence `ESC ] 10; Pt BEL' is used so menus created for rxvt will be ignored by an ordinary XTerm. It provides sub-menus, click-and-drag, and even some user definable `quick' arrows keys. However menu manipulation could use refinement to permit multiple menus to be defined -- and the menu refreshing could also use some improvement, but it can be extended and refined later as required/desired. The files doc/menu.sh and doc/jedmenu.sl show sample implementations of menus. --> It compiles and runs on my machine (AIX 3.2.5) but THIS IS CONSIDERED BETA (or even ALPHA) CODE! 2. DEC private modes: Bug fix for 's'ave and 'r'estore parameters, added a 't'oggle parameter to DEC private modes. 3. Made Backspace key selectable with DEC private mode ESC [ ? 36 h/l/s/r/t (high/low/save/restore/toggle) 4. Changed the way the scrollBar is realized to permit on-the-fly toggling of the scrollBar display and added a DEC private mode escape sequence for that. Smoother redraw of scrollBar. Better proportions for the arrows allows a slightly narrower scrollBar. 5. Added support for XTerm font changing sequence: `ESC ] 50; Pt BEL', with (as usual) a few extras. See doc/rxvt.ref 6. Adapted experimental XPM buffering from that supplied by Carsten Haitzler . 7. Replaced `wait' with `waitpid' in src/command.c::Child_signal to avoid a race condition and permit use of pclose() on SunOS. Patch provided by , Thanks John! 8. For easier XPM handling, added `path' resource/long-option and substantially enhanced pixmap scaling to provide very exact control over scaling and positioning of the XPM background image. The XPM XTerm escape sequence has been extended to provide a convenient facility for on-the-fly rescaling. Export COLORTERM="rxvt-xpm" instead of COLORTERM="rxvt" 9. Added export COLORFGBG to give hints to color applications. Typically one of these values is exported, in which `fg' and `bg' are numbers 00-15: COLORFGBG="default;default" -fg -bg colors don't match any of color 0-15 COLORFGBG="fg;default" -fg color matches color 0-15, but -bg color doesn't COLORFGBG="default;bg" -bg color matches color 0-15, but -fg color doesn't COLORFGBG="fg;bg" -fg -bg colors match color 0-15 When compiled with XPM support, the last two values are rendered as follows: COLORFGBG="default;default;bg" -bg color matches color 0-15, but -fg color doesn't COLORFGBG="fg;default;bg" -fg -bg colors match color 0-15 10. Disable Shift+Prior/Next and scrollBar if saveLines == 0. Slight change to key-processing so `shift+meta+key' and `shift+ctrl+key' gets processed as `shift+key'. This provides a way to avoid interpretating `Shift+Prior', `Shift+Next', and `Shift+Insert'. Also, added DEC private mode sequence `ESC [ ? 35 h/l/s/r/t' to disable Shift+key interpretation. Provide for Ctrl+Shift+ combinations for function keys. See doc/rxvt.ref 11. Always match long-option names, even when only preceded by a single -/+. 2.18 to 2.19 \----------- 1. Minor alteration to input mode for Kanji processing. 2. rclock: -adjust option, support for exec on startup syntax, date format may now also include the century 3. Made mouse double-click respect autowrap lines. 4. Added marks for folded editing. 5. Added Offix DND (Drag 'n' Drop) protocol. Added support for XA_TARGETS. 6. added Carsten Haitzler XPM patches to load an XPM file for the background of the terminal window. Uses resource `Rxvt.backgroundPixmap' or long-option `--backgroundPixmap' 7. Use these (XTerm) keybindings exclusively and remove the old equivalent bindings: Shift-Prior = scroll up Shift-Next = scroll down Shift-Insert = paste mouse selection Shift-KP_Add = bigger font Shift-KP_Subtract = smaller font 2.17 to 2.18 \----------- 1. Check for NULL pointers in command-line processing (oops) Also fixed processing of `hidden' arguments such as -d, -g, -T 2. Fixed terminfo hpa/vpa: was `\E..' instead of `\E[..' added invisible cursor (ESC[?25h / ESC[?25l) 3. Fixed broken kanji characters (?? and disappeared cursor box ??) thanks to 4. In privileges(), changed setuid/setgid to seteuid/seteguid so that it's possible to switch back to root later. Perhaps fixed svr4 problems (reports no tty, no job control) in get_tty() ... need to detect these SVR4 features in the configure script. 5. Restored scrollColor, topShadowColor, bottomShadowColor resources that somehow got lost between the beta and release versions. For monochrome displays, fixed scrollbar so it will be visible and suppress color changes. 6. Final? iteration on selection. Store selection text with LF line-endings but paste into rxvt with CR endings. Selection now preserves the newline when trailing space is stripped from non-autowrap lines. Compile-time support for using a keystroke to paste from the cut-buffer. 7. Fixed utmp.c to handle both sysv and bsd pty names. More changes in the works to improve documentation and eliminate race conditions ... this, thankfully, is being done by someone else. 8. Added European language support (X11R6) - let me know of problems and fixes since I only have X11R5. 9. Changed names of color10-color17 to color8-color15 to match with those used by color_xterm ... sorry for the inconvenience, but I didn't have an X11R6 xterm manpage until now and long-term compatibility is quite important. Added a real bold font (define USE_BOLDFONT). I still think it's too much work to avoid pixel droppings for overstrike fonts. Added support for specifying colors for bold/underline (colorBD/colorUL) but it's only done when the foreground = the default foreground ... see the manpage. Compile-time selection of TERM="xterm-color". Reduced the number of rarely-used command-line options since they are accessible on the command-line via their resource names as long options. More rigid differentiation between long and short options: long options are --/++ prefixed; short options -/+ prefixed. Added long-option help to give the resource names. Removed run-time selection of right-hand scrollbar and arrows. Removed run-time selection of (pageup_key/pagedown_key/alert_key). 10. Changed Ctrl-Up,Down,Left,Right to emit "\EOa,b,c,d" instead of the previous "\E[^A,^B,^C,^D" to avoid problems associated with having an embedded "^C" in a key-sequence. Disallow 80/132 column switching as the default (same as xterm). 11. Check for seteuid(). Add "ttcompat" module for SVR4. 12. A few people suggested removing the keystroke for toggling MapAlert and so I have. I agree that it was pointless and/or annoying since there was no way of determining the current toggled state anyhow. 13. Fixed missing `ttydev' for _sgi. Fixes for BSD utmp support. Exported WINDOWID before the window was created (oops). 14. Mouse cut&paste of autowrapped lines should be improved, fixed bug in screen.c::scroll_text(). 15. As was pointed by a user -->> in keeping with X conventions, only an application that starts with 'x' should capitalize the first two letters of the resource file, so the rxvt resource file (and class name) should be named Rxvt not RXvt, this is a minor point. 16. rclock: As well as message reminders, rclock can launch programs and (if no message text is given) act as a cron-type of program. Made default font `7x14'. Fixed graphics context when mail is waiting and a reminder is issued - so the message is actually visible! 17. As suggested by a user, changed the bolding algorithm to be slightly more intuitive: 1. colorBD (if specified) 2. color0-7 -> color8-15 (if possible) 3. boldFont (if specified and found) 4. overstrike (last resort) This takes advantage of the color capability and is the most consistent when toggling font sizes on-the-fly. If you never want overstrike (looks ugly and leaves pixel droppings) or boldFont (you like to switch font sizes on-the-fly), you can remove them at compile-time. The other elements are similarly compile-time selectable. 18. Another user suggestion: scrollbar made more distinct by having the `trough' a different color from the slider -- I opted for making it the same as the default background color so that the slider and arrows appear to `float' on the window. Also removed topShadowColor, bottomShadowColor resources as unnecessary. 19. Dropped distribution of vttest since Tom Dickey is working on an improved version. 2.16 to 2.17 \----------- 1. Fixed problem in scr_refesh_region() that was introduced in v2.16 The problem of `pixel droppings' continues when bold is simulated using overstrike. Using XCopyArea() sometimes helps, but the preferred and simplest solution is item 4 below. 2. Removed 7bit mode. Changed definition of meta so that the ESCAPE is the default and using meta to set the 8bit on an option that can be made run-time configurable (assuming people still use this). Added -/+rv command-line option, resource reverseVideo. NB: it works slightly differently from xterm's in that foreground/background are swapped even if they have been explicitly set. Removed NO_COLOR option -- no more monochrome rxvt (one too #ifdef's). Inherit existing stty settings (at least for control characters) and set value of BackSpace appropriately. Added defines DONT_GUESS_BACKSPACE and NO_DELETE_KEY 3. Added 3D style scrollbar and removed all the old bitmapped scrollbars and arrows with the only exception being the xterm lookalike XTERM_SCROLLBAR which is available in a single width. With arrows, scrollbar behaviour somewhat resembles Motif behaviour. Without arrows, it's the standard xterm behaviour. The default scrollbar (defined at compile-time or set by using scrollBar: True) is to have a scrollbar with arrows arranged on the right-hand side. The scrollBar resource is now exclusively a boolean value scrollbar resources: scrollColor topShadowColor bottomShadowColor NB: if topShadowColor/bottomShadowColor are unset, their values are calculated from scrollColor using an algorithm adapted from fvwm so it shouldn't be too hard to find scrollbar colours that look good with your window manager and don't consume an entire colormap. 4. Added smarter handling of bold/blink when applied to the default fg/bg colours: If the pixel value of fg/bg matches the pixel value of colour COLOR0 through COLOR7, then applying bold/blink to the default fg/bg will select the appropriate colour from BOLD0 through BOLD7 instead of using the overstrike bold. This seems to be the best way to handle bold/blink attributes when the foreground/background match and ANSI colour anyhow. For convenience, it is possible to use colour aliases (next item) for the foreground/background colours instead. My preference is a dull Canadian look: RXvt*foreground: 7 RXvt*background: 10 5. Changed colour aliases (item 7 of last change) and dropped the `#' prefix. This avoids confusion with the regular #rrggbb format of specifying colours and is unambiguous since there are no X11 colours starting with a digit. This also avoids the need to quote the `#' to protect against shell interpretation. 6. Added colour cursor support. -cr (cursorColor), as per XTerm -> the (rectangle) cursor colour -cr2 (cursorColor2), only RXvt -> the text colour. The cursorColor2 maintains contrast in a colour environment and is optional. Thanks Raul Garcia Garcia for the idea. Cleaned up scr_refresh (again ) to avoid some unnecessary colour changes and removed the reverse video graphics context and just swap foreground/background colours instead. 7. Typo in command.c: had seteuid() instead of seteguid() Use cfsetospeed()/cfsetispeed() for POSIX termios handling. 8. Ignore the loginShell option/resource for programs that DON'T end with "sh". A hack but it keeps `rxvt -ls -e rlogin machine' from failing and I don't know of (m)any shells that don't end in "sh". 9. Hard-code dependencies in Makefiles to avoid using X11 makedepend. Added check for atexit() to catch the problem that exists on SunOS but not on Solaris. 10. Collected command-line option parsing and X11 resources into a single file (xdefaults.c), and introduced a monolithic structure (with bit-flags for logical options) to eliminate the massive if-else-if parsing and to reduce possible overlaps/oversights Short help provided for an incorrect argument. For more consistency, more flexibility, and fewer switches, made -grk4/-grk9 options obsolete, and replaced with `-grk mode'. Added the resource `greek_keyboard' while I was there. It is also possible to use a `--' or `++' prefix to get so-called `long options' that correspond to the resource name. For example, rxvt +ls -bg Blue rxvt +loginShell -background Blue rxvt ++loginShell --background Blue rxvt ++ls --bg Blue Error! 11. Changed REFRESH_PERIOD to 1 in command.c, the old idea of providing for fast and furious scrolling needs to be reconsidered so that `cat' works. Still needs some investigation. 12. Changed scr_poweron(), which corresponds to `ESC c', to also reset the scrollback buffer. 13. Changed scr_change_screen() (when compiled with NO_SECONDARY_SCREEN) so that switching from the secondary to primary screen will push the old secondary screen into the scrollback buffer. This is fairly useful if your terminfo has have rmcup=\E[?47l\E8, smcup=\E7\E[?47h. It is NOT particularly useful if rmcup includes \E[2J, like some do. Running with NO_SECONDARY_SCREEN provides faster switching than with a real secondary screen and saves memory too. 14. Now that key values have mostly stabilized, moved the compile-time key choices to "feature.h" ("keys.h" now obsolete). 2.15 to 2.16 \----------- 1. Misc cleanup, rxvt once again passes the vttest (and reverse video works again). Kanji support tested and seems to be okay. Finally, an okay set of regular/bold colours. Compile-time option for a right-side scrollbar. 2. Ctrl-minus now (correctly) generates ^_ [0x1F]. Changed termcap/terminfo to use normal cursor keys instead of application cursor keys (rmkx/smkx, ke/ks) -- otherwise subsequent rxvt/xterm starts with the application cursor keys active. 3. Fixed scr_reset() so that resizing is a lot more sensible. Implemented the equivalent SouthWest resizeGravity (xterm X11R5) so the bottom line of text on the screen stays fixed. If the window is made taller, additional saved lines will be scrolled down onto the screen; if the window is made shorter, lines will be scrolled off the top of the screen, and the top saved lines will be dropped. The old resizing code is available with -DOLD_UGLY_RESIZE. 4. Altered code so all man-page documented command-line options will not trigger errors even if the feature wasn't compiled into rxvt. Added old, backward compatibility command-line options, but they're simply ignored. Eventually they can be removed -- perhaps Jan'97? `-8': use `+7' `-fat': use `-sb' `-thin': use `-arrows' `-meta8thbit' use `-meta8' `-metaescape' use `-meta' `-font_list' use `-font1', `-font2', etc. These ones are just too weird to support: `-ls-': use `+ls' `-ma-': use `+ma' 5. Removed secure-keyboard option, too problematic and obscure. 6. First attempt at GNU autoconfig. Still needs some work, but it's mostly okay. 7. Added minor aliases for foreground/background colours. This permits colour specifications like -fg "#13" -bg "#10", which would set the foreground to colour 13 (bright yellow) and the background to colour 10 (bright black). It's not terribly useful yet, but might eventually be a nice way to have bold/blink colour work even on with the standard fg/bg colours. 2.14 to 2.15 \----------- 1. Small bug: initial width incorrect when there was no scrollBar. 2. Close the gaping security hole. Renounce setuid/setgid privileges immediately and only take them up as needed -- chown() or writing into /etc/utmp. 3. Reverted to using `<' and '>' to toggle smaller/bigger fonts. It seems that many didn't like KP_Subtract/XK_KP_Add -- conflicts with some editors, and not all terminals have a Keypad anyhow. 4. Man page reformatted by Piercarlo Grandi so that it "now is done in the most delightful [sic] elegant 'roff style :-)" 5. Started to integrate the Kanji support based on old patches from the Linux-JE (Japanese Extensions) project. Consider it alpha until one of the JE authors gives it a thorough check. 6. Added compile-time selection of a few different scrollbar widths. 7. When reading X resources, rxvt now recognizes two class names: "XTerm" and "RXvt". The reason for two distinct names is that there are many options common between rxvt and xterm -- to which the class name "XTerm" permits easy access and configuration -- but there are also several options, notably colours and key-handling, unique to rxvt but which are useful to share between different rxvt configurations; the class name "RXvt" permits this. NB: The "RXvt" class takes precedence (in the event of a clash) and is the only one ever used for the application defaults file. 8. The initial value used for the Backspace key (^H or ^?) is now determined from the value of CERASE used to set the termios structures. This removes the need for the BACKSPACE_AS_DELETE compile-time option. 2.13 to 2.14 \----------- 1. Default HOTKEY prefix can now be choosen as `meta', `ctrl' or `shift'. Moved font toggle to KP_Add/KP_Subtract to resemble resolution toggling of the XFree86 server (Linux) and so that Alt-< can generate ESC-< for Emacs usage. Man page and usage() reflect the changes. Note that if you choose the hotkey to be `shift', to mimic the Linux console scrollback, you'll probably want different keybindings for mapAlert and Secure. The choice of the HOTKEY (ctrl or meta) prefix and some of the key-strings can be compile-time defined in "rxvtkeys.h", although probably the only changes desired will be in the string value associated with XK_Delete and in the choice of a HOTKEY (ctrl or meta) prefix. Use shift or ctrl to temporarily toggle Backspace from ^H to ^?. Use shift to temporarily toggle the application keypad. 2. Patch so that setting bold or blink works before or after changing the colour (it used to only work before changing the colour). Also added the option of having DOS VGA colours. Thanks Avery Pennarun 3. Extensive reworking of pseudo-tty handling and addition of BSD sgtty terminal handling and new utmpx (Solaris 2.x) support. MANY thanks to Raul Garcia Garcia (rgg@tid.es). POSIX wtmp support added by Piet W. Plomp (piet@icce.rug.nl) Added -/+ut option (resource: utmpInhibit) so you can sometimes be harder to find :) 4. Finally? cleaned-up selection so that it works properly -- clears a previously selected region without causing a core dump -- define NEW_SELECTION. I believe that this should fix a long-standing problem with the selection mechanism -- probably back from when selection of the scrollback was added -- whereby all accounting was done in terms of screen row values [0 .. RxvtWin.rows-1] plus the current offset value. The anchor and end points were scrolled with the screen, but the beginning point wasn't and extending a region that had its anchor scrolled-off would give complete garbage. The new selection scheme has lots of bounds-checking (too much?) to prevent these problems. If PRINT_PIPE is not defined, then you can use PrintScreen to dump some of the current selection state -- this should help debugging. Thanks to John Davis (davis@space.mit.edu) and Piet W. Plomp (piet@icce.rug.nl) for helping to diagnose the problem. 5. Use information request `ESC [ 8 n' to change the window title to the current rxvt version so you can find out what version you have. 6. Added simple code to permit run-time definition of the keysyms 0xFF00 - 0xFFFF if KEYSYM_RESOURCE (for FAKE_RESOURCES only) is defined. It's not as pretty as that used by xterm since it only works with keysym values rather that key names, but the impact on code size is quite minimal. I use it in conjunction with `-name vm' to remap arrow and function keys for tn3270 ... quite handy. At the moment the string length is only limited by the line length (currently 256) used in "resources.c" The syntax (at the moment) is rxvt*keysym.0xFFnn: "a string value" where `nn' is a 2 digit hex value 00 to FF. Of course if there were an easy and small means of converting key names to keysym values, then that would be better. The enclosing quotes are required to start/end with whitespace. Most of the usual escape values can be used: \b - backspace \e - escape \n - newline \r - carriage return \t - tab \000 - octal number Anyhow, here's a brief example of what it looks like in ~/.Xdefaults: ! F11 key - mimic the output of F1 rxvt*keysym.0xFFC8: \e[11~ ! F12 key - whatever rxvt*keysym.0xFFC9: Hello World!\n"\"String\" ends with whitespace " ! Delete key - remap rxvt*keysym.0xFFFF: "Delete :)" !Scroll_Lock as flow-control (^S) rxvt*keysym.0xFF14: \023 7. Oops -- fixed resource name from scrollbar to scrollBar. Fixed cursor colours to black on white (like xterm) for the scrollbar cursors, but I've left the xterm (`I'-bar) cursor as foreground on background because it looks so nice. Allocate all colours when creating the window so that we don't have to worry about it later and so that we can avoid potential hassles with colour-hungry applications like Netscape. 8. Added a way to distinguish an rxvt from an xterm via the obsolete ESC Z sending the vt100 answer string with 'c' -> 'C'. Added support for resolving the actual IP number of the host for remote DISPLAYs. Changed the answer back for ESC[7n to add a trailing newline to support easier input into the shell. When the display is local (i.e. :0), we add support for sending the first non-loopback interface IP number as the DISPLAY instead of just sending the incorrect ":0". This way telnet/rlogin shells can actually get the correct information into DISPLAY for xclients. Courtesy of Chuck Blake [Note: I've not had a chance to thoroughly test this -- mjo] 2.12 to 2.13 \----------- 1. Shift and Control now only work for non-application mode cursor keys and with function keys. 2. Override XTerm mouse reporting with either Mod1 or Shift. X11 mouse reporting now properly includes modifier keys (see rxvt.ref). Although this effectively degenerates to the Control modifier alone since both Shift and Meta are used to temporarily disable mouse reporting -- I don't know an easy way around this but that's what XTerm does, although since it uses Control to pop-up menus, that doesn't get transmitted either. 3. Moved a few more configuration items from Imakefile to configure.h 4. Added XAPPLOADDIR define to the Imakefile to allow use of the application defaults file XAPPLOADDIR/RXvt when rxvt has been compiled with FAKE_RESOURCES. Now, the following files are checked: XAPPLOADDIR/RXvt (compile-time defined) $HOME/.Xdefaults or $HOME/.Xresources suggested by John Gotts 5. Applied patches by Edward D.H. Liu to fix the speed of pasting rxvt's selection to motif, xew or tk. Finally! reasonable pasting speed to these applications. 6. patches by Gregory Margo for xterm-style proportional scrollbar behaviour: If pointer is near top, scroll one line. If pointer is near bottom, scroll full page. refreshPeriod resource and -refresh option ... still wishing for faster screen refreshing. 7. Bug fix for partial matches (FAKE_RESOURCES). In addition to resources for resource name `rxvt', also get resources for class name `XTerm' as well. Remove checking for `command' resource since it's not found in xterm nor was there any code in place to parse the command arguments ... better just to use the command-line -e option. Replace `fontList' with font1, font2, ... etc. for better xterm compatibility and for ease of configuration. Changed processing of string resources and command-line string options to avoid allocating redundant memory. 8. Previously selected region is now properly cleared when Button1 is pressed. Still have problems with click-and-drag when Mod1 or Shift is used to override mouse reporting -- argh! Until someone gets this properly patched, use Button1 followed by Button3 (to extend region) in these instances. 9. Understands ANSI set default fg/bg colour (\E[39m / \E[49m) 10. In the screen accounting used in screen.c, use a '\n' to terminate wrapped lines instead of '\0'. This should avoid mouse selection of wrapped lines from including a bogus newline. No known side-effects, but changes isolated by #define NEW_WRAPTYPE. 2.11 to 2.12 \----------- 1. Extra functionality for XTerm mouse report mode. If mouse reporting is enabled (the application will handle mouse events) the normal scrollbar operation is disabled -- instead rxvt sends UP/DOWN for the arrow buttons and PageUp/PageDown when Button1 or Button3 are clicked on the scrollbar. Use Mod1 (Alt) key to get the normal scrollbar/arrow button actions and also to get the normal selection functions -- so that you can still cut/paste between X applications. 2. New colour possibilities -- 16 colours. Instead of using fatter characters, a bold attribute now uses a brighter foreground colour. Similarly, a blink attribute will use a brighter background colour. It is also possible to choose these colours through the resources (color0 -- color7) permit specification of the ANSI colours (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white), the resources (color10 -- color17) are the brighter bold/blink equivalents. Define USE_FAKE_BOLD to disable. 3. Extensive clean-up of source and headers to separate interdependencies, remove unused variables. Introduced static variables wherever possible to limit scoping and reduced the number of external variables. 4. Allow NumLock to toggle on/off the application keypad. Backspace sends '\b', Ctrl-Backspace sends '\177'. Define BACKSPACE_AS_DELETE to reverse these values or use the escape sequence: ESC [ 36 h Backspace key sends BS ESC [ 36 l Backspace key sends DEL XK_End used to send "\033Ow", which is identical to XK_KP_7 and confuses EDT-type editors. Now, Home = "\033[7~" End = "\033[8~" Changed Alert & Secure keys from Alt-i & Alt-s to Alt-I & Alt-S so they aren't so easily toggled. 5. Extra keystroke info. Pass Control and Shift indicators for function keys (similar to the XJed editor) eg, F1 = ESC [11~ C-F1 = ESC [11^ S-F1 = ESC [11$ also, pass indication of shift status for arrow-keys eg, Up, Down, Right, Left = ESC [A, ESC [B, ESC [C, ESC [D S-Up, S-Down, S-Right, S-Left = ESC [a, ESC [b, ESC [c, ESC [d You wouldn't be able to use these keys for termcap/terminfo applications, but the key sequences are available for remapping within an application. 6. Added configure.h which is included by each source file and by the Imakefile. Common compilation defines are now all contained in configure.h with minor system defines remaining in Imakefile -- makes it much easier to configure. Used XCOMM macro in Imakefile so that it actually works. Also added defaults.h for defining user-specific startup defaults. 7. Added rxvt.ref to provide documentation of the various terminal sequences that are processed. Updated man page to reflect changes. 8. Use xterm-style -/+ to turn on/off options, rationalized resource names to more closely resemble xterm. Option Resource -help - -display displayname - -geometry geom geometry: -bg color background: -fg color foreground: -color color color: where = [0-7], 1[0-7] -fn fontname font: -fontList names fontList: ... -name string - -/+ls loginShell: True/False -/+ma mapAlert: True/False -/+vb visualBell: True/False -/+sb scrollbar: True/False -/+arrows scrollbar: Arrows/True/False -ic - -meta8 meta: 8bit -/+meta meta: True/False -sl number saveLines: -grk4 - -grk9 - -print-pipe name pipe-pipe: -e command arg ... command: -T string title: -n string iconName: -C - -/+7 bits: 7/8 -secure keysym secure_key: -pageup keysym pageup_key: -pagedown keysym pagedown_key: -bigfont keysym bigfont_key: -smallfont keysym smallfont_key: -prkey keysym printscreen_key: greektoggle_key: cutchars: 9. Fixed Button actions for XTerm-style scrollbar so that Button1 and Button3 do different things as they are supposed to. Replace -/+fat with -/+sb and -/+arrows for more consistency with XTerm. Decreased width of `fat' scrollbar (make closer to xterm) and increased width of `thin' scrollbar (arrows too small) -- they are now the same width. Also made it possible to remove the scrollbar altogether. Added a visual bell. Added many more defines to further reduce code size for various cases, see "configure.h". It is also possible to alter settings in "defaults.h" for configuration options that will only affect screen.c and xsetup.c, this should help with compile-time customization for those who don't want to use Xdefaults. Added the define REPLACE_SELECTION_NEWLINE to make the substitution of newlines with carriage returns for selection pasting a compile-time option. 10. Fixed the graphics samples so that if you want to it's actually possible to compile them. Added -name command-line option so that it's possible to select different sets of resources. 11. Integrated initial support for X11 mouse reporting and added Shift + Function Keys support. 2.10 to 2.11 1. If NEW_COLOR_MODEL is defined in screen.c, the new model I described in an earlier email is used. (apparantly there are two, slightly differnt models for using color extensions in a vt-compatible terminal. This flag lets you switch. 2. If XTERM_MOUSE_REPORT is defined in command.c, mouse reporting is turned on/off via the appropriate escape sequences. XTerm already provides this support. 3. If .Xdefaults does not exist, .Xresources is searched for. It seems that many here use .Xresources. 2.09 to 2.10 1. Really fixed the color problem (?) Got color-ls, and it works now. 2. Added patch to allow run-time selection of font list. 2.07 to 2.09 1. Fixed some color-usage errors. 2. Added double and triple-click support compliments of ah@doc.ic.ac.uk (Angelo Haritsis) 3. Added Print Screen capability, as in most vt-100's 2.06 to 2.07 1. Fixed problems with rxvt screwing up tty permisssions (?) 2.03 to 2.06 1. Fixed a limit which imposed a maximum width for the terminal window of 255 characters. There is no limit now. 2. Made provision for applications to get mouse-click feedback when user clicks in a graphics window. See graphics_sample 2.02 to 2.03 1. Fixed memory management just a little. 2.0 to 2.02 1. Bug fixes for color and graphics. 1.97 to 2.0 1. Added ANSI color support. Compile with -DCOLOR 2. Added a graphics mode. Compile with -DGRAPHICS 1.96 to 1.97 1. Bug in refresh() which was causing slow refreshes after clear-screens was fixed. Showed up during emacs start-up. 1.95 to 1.96 1. rxvt did bad things if it received mouse - Motion events without a preceeding button-press. Fixed. 1.94 to 1.95 1. Created a substitute for XGetDefaults, which seemed to account for 1/2 to 2/3 of the memory used by rxvt (according to the SIZE field of ps output). My substitute only reads the .Xdefaults file. Compile with -DFAKE_RESOURCES to get my mini- XDefaults handling, -DREAL_RESOURCES to keep XGetDefault. 1.93 to 1.94 1. Fixed some minor long-standing errors in the vt100 emulation. 2. Fixed ALT- handling in command.c 3. Fixed minor bug with start-of-selection location. 4. Added xterm-type "extend selection" feature using mouse button 3. Button 1 always starts a new selection. Button3 tries to extend the current selection if possible. 5. Fixed problem with bold-face fonts overflowing into the next character for some fonts. 1.92 to 1.93 1. ran gprof to find bottle-necks in the code. Halved user time, but had little effect on total time required to update the display. Seems worth keeping for the more efficient user-time, though. At this point, I think that most of the elapsed time is spent waiting for input or waiting for the X buffers to flush. 2. Used to refresh the screen every 2.2 screen-fulls during flat-out scrolling. Really cuts down on scroll-time. Now, refresh every screen-full (or when there's a pause in activity), but when flat-out scrolling starts, decrease the refresh period, so that its every 10th screenful after a little while. This has no noticeable visible effect, since the scrolling text is absolutely unintelligible anyway, but will improve the scroll "feel" when doing just one or two screenfulls, ie in an ls -l. 3. Surrounded the code which uses XCopyArea with #ifdef's I have never seen this help performance, but I think that there may be some video-systems which benefit from this, particularly in a full-screen editor or slow scrolling type of setting. 4. Performance in flat out scrolling, text only, on a sparc-10, displaying rxvt on an HDS x-terminal: nation@snoopy>/usr/bin/time rxvt -e cat k 6.1 real 3.1 user 2.5 sys nation@snoopy>/usr/bin/time xterm -e cat k 40.8 real 4.6 user 3.4 sys 1.91 to 1.92 1. Added greek-keyboard support patches. 1.85 to 1.91 1. assorted minor patches 1.82 to 1.85 1. Fixed ESC c handling. 2. Fixed minor selection handling bug. 1.81 to 1.82 1. Fixed slow refresh during selection process 2. Fixed problem of not correctly clearing selections of 1 character. 1.80 to 1.81 1. Fixed some scrolling problems, problems with partially obscured windows. 2. Added some neat debugging capability in debug.c 3. Patched up rclock. 1.74 to 1.80 1. Fixed core dump from selecting past the bottom of the screen 2. Fixed a few escape sequences, per the vttest program 3. Broke and fixed handling of moved/resize/new-font handling. 4. Still can't change tab stops correctly. 5. Ran vt-100 test suite. Added capability to change tab stops and enter reverse video, and to switch from 80 to 132 columns and back. Fixed a seg-fault in scroll(). 1.70 to 1.74 1. Fixed cursor drawing errors. 2. Improved smoothness of scroll-back operations. 3. Applied some SVR4 patches. 4. Applied HPUX patches, and a few cursor display patches 5. Fixed up font-changing routines a bit. 6. Fixed a scrolling problem for windows taller than the scroll-back buffer. 1.6 to 1.7 1. Fixed the problem with random rendition flags in the scroll back buffer 2. Fiddled with re-drawing on the scroll-bar, and with how often refreshing occurs. 3. Incorporated some AIX patches. 4. Included #ifdef'd changes to support vt100 printer. 5. Fixed send_string routine, so that it doesn't loose data. 6. Complete re-write of screen.c 1.5 to 1.6 1. Removed all use of a seperate bold font. Now uses over-striking exclusively. 2. Added some more optimizations for drawing speed when the window is re-sized or moved. 3. Implemented speed ups in screen.c 1.47 to 1.48 1. Cleaned up re-drawing on expose events, so rxvt only re-draws the newly exposed parts of the screen. 2. Fixed backspace, which must have broken in 1.45. 3. Added command line option of iconic startup. from 1.45 to 1.47 1. Incorporated improved bsd utmp handling from dperry@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (David Perry) 2. Fixed a very minor bug where the solid-cursor can leave a a bit of a ghost when you resize the window. Its stupid, but it always bothered me. from 1.4 to 1.45 1. Fixed scrolling error when switching to larger fonts 2. Fixed utmp-entry removal for SYSV type systems. 3. Icorportated patches for FreeBSD and svr4