-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: manpage 900mb update
+TODO: maybe just output the error and continue on x errors, especially for XIM-management
+TODO: safer command: keymap processing.
+TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
+WISH: keyboard modification via esc-sequences.
+WISH: line-rewrapping on resize
+WISH: searchable backlog
+WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex (my dream project)
+WISH: double-click: more intelligent (urls etc.)
+WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
+WISH: tabbed windows (hey, just use screen...)
+WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
+
+5.1
+ - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
+ for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
+ (Kuang-che Wu).
+ - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
+
+5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
+ - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
+ - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
+ - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
+ Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
+ - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
+ and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
+ his patience and time in tracking this down).
+ - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
+ most notably, don't remove double quotes.
+ - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
+ - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
+ by Joël Riou).
+ - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
+ available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
+ and is surprisingly hard to implement.
+ - shaved off some code segment size.
+ - various code cleanups.
+ - more keysym-mapping fixes.
+
+4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
+ - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
+ original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
+ - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
+ -pixmap is active.
+ - new option/resource imFont.
+ - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
+ - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
+ - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
+ - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
+ - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
+ (WU Fengguang).
+ - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
+ examples (rxvt.1).
+ - removed src/test completely.
+ - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
+
+4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
+ - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
+ highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
+ sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
+ - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
+ can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
+ - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
+ resulting in segfaults.
+ - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
+ screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
+ - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
+ - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
+ (Mikael Magnusson).
+ - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
+ and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
+ font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
+ tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
+ - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
+ - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
+ - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
+ - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
+ on frills, not on it's own configure option).
+ - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
+ - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
+ - initialize the locale much earlier.
+ - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
+
+4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
+ - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
+ black on initial startup.
+ - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
+ races in the protocol and within Xlib.
+ - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
+ - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
+ additional multimedia keys.
+ - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
+ implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
+
+4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
+ - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
+ if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
+ - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
+ time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
+ turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
+ - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
+ - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
+ process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
+ ignored.
+ - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
+ instead.
+ - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
+ (reported by hednod).
+ - fix an unlikely memory leak.
+ - fix atom name enumeration.
+
+4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
+ - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
+ - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
+ incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
+ selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
+ for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
+
+4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
+ - rewrote handling of default-char width.
+ - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
+ for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
+ titles etc.
+ - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
+ - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
+ - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
+ - upgraded iom.[Ch].
+ - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
+ - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
+ which got partially overwritten by spaces.
+ - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
+ and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
+ should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
+ and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
+ for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
+ - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
+ - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
+
+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 (Kuang-che Wu).
+ - 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 <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
+ - 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 <azz@us-lot.org>),
+ 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 <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
+ - 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).
- fix some minor bugs.
2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
- - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm.
+ - 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.
+ - xterm-compat: 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.
+ - xterm-compat: 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.
+ - xterm-compat: 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
- 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 "?".
+ - xterm-compat: 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
1.0
- first release
- - original cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
+ - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
- removed rclock et al.
- initial conversion to C++
+