-1.9
+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: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
+WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
+WISH: hotkey font resizing
+WISH: searchable backlog
+WISH: meta-tagging of data by regex (my dream project)
+WISH: triple-click == select full output line
+WISH: double-click: more intelligent (urls etc.)
+WISH: OnTheSpot editing.
+WISH: tabbed windows (hey, just use screen...)
+
+ - 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).
+ - 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.
1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
- further cleanups.
- never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
- color + bold ass high-intensity, and let the selection
+ 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.
- blinking text.
- normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
normal text when colorBD is not set.
- (- support double-byte characters (by blocking).)
- was not implemented
+ (- 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
- fix a bug in font height selection
- autoscale scalable x11 fonts
- slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
- - much faster x11 font selecti
+ - much faster x11 font selection
1.2 2003-12-24
- fix another segfault-on-resize-bug form the original rxvt
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++
+