ANN: xterm-362

Chris Sorenson csoren at isd.net
Thu Nov 12 23:05:54 UTC 2020


> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:52:17 +0000
> From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com>
> To: Xorg list <xorg at lists.freedesktop.org>, XFree86 Developers' list
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> Subject: ANN: xterm-362
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> Files:
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/xterm/current/xterm-362.tgz
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> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/xterm/patches/xterm-362.patch.gz
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/xterm/patches/xterm-362.patch.gz.asc
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm-362.tgz
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm-362.tgz.asc
> 
>                             Patch #362 - 2020/11/11
> 
>      * cleanup of calls to free, removing checks for null (Walter 
> Harms).
>      * improved   mouse-button  reporting  (prompted  by  discussion  
> with
>        Stephane Chazelas)
>           + narrow  the scope of the change for shift-key in patch #361 
> to
>             make it apply only when the modifyOtherKeys resource is set 
> to
>             2 (i.e., ?program mode?). Also, when checking the 
> shift-key,
>             ignore modifiers other than shift, control and ?meta?
>           + use    the   alt/meta   modifier   information   obtained   
> in
>             VTInitModifiers  to  replace  a hard-coded mod1 used to 
> detect
>             ?Meta? for mouse-button responses.
>      * reduce SIGWINCH's sent to the client by filtering out 
> duplicates.
>      * improve display when scaleHeight is greater than 1:
>           + the  text-cursor  is  vertically-centered on the current 
> line,
>             rather  than  only extending below the current line (report 
> by
>             Manu Chaturvedi).
>           + the  built-in  line-drawing  characters  extend  to the 
> scaled
>             cell-height.
>      * fill-in  special  case  for  motion-events to match the changes 
> for
>        shift-key in pointer-button events from patch #361.
> 
> 
> --
> Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
> https://invisible-island.net
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
> 

Lovely, thank you Thomas!

A trivial patch to escape three apostrophes in configure.in that break 
syntax highlighting in some editors (feel free to ignore!):

--- configure.in	2020-09-19 11:50:26.000000000 -0500
+++ configure.ac	2020-11-12 16:42:25.053827377 -0600
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@
  AC_MSG_RESULT($enable_blink_curs)
  test "$enable_blink_curs" = no && AC_DEFINE(OPT_BLINK_CURS,0,[Define to 
0 to disable support for blinking cursor])

-AC_MSG_CHECKING(if you want to ignore Linux's broken palette-strings)
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(if you want to ignore Linux\'s broken palette-strings)

  case $host_os in
  (linux*)
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@
  	AC_DEFINE(ALLOWLOGGING,1,[if you want support for logging])
  	AC_MSG_CHECKING(if you want to allow logging via a pipe)
  	CF_ARG_ENABLE(logfile-exec,
-		[  --enable-logfile-exec   enable exec'd logfile filter],
+		[  --enable-logfile-exec   enable exec\'d logfile filter],
  		[enable_log_exec=yes],
  		[enable_log_exec=no])
  	AC_MSG_RESULT($enable_log_exec)
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@
  dnl FIXME - extra test needed to make tcap-fkeys work on HPUX
  AC_CHECK_FUNCS(tigetstr)

-dnl only check for ncurses' use_extended_names if really not using 
termcap
+dnl only check for ncurses\' use_extended_names if really not using 
termcap
  if test -n "$cf_cv_lib_part_tgetent"; then
      AC_CHECK_FUNCS(use_extended_names)
  fi



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