The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
* ncurses 6.4-20240120
* ncurses-demo 6.4-20240120
* terminfo 6.4-20240120
* terminfo-extra 6.4-20240120
* libncurses-devel 6.4-20240120
* libncurses++w10 6.4-20240120
* libncursesw10 6.4-20240120
The ncurses (new curses) library is an emulation of Sys V R 4
curses, and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads, color,
multiple highlights, forms characters, function key mapping,
and has all the other SVR4 curses enhancements over BSD curses.
For more information see the project home page:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses
As there are multiple components and many changes each release see below
or read /usr/share/doc/ncurses/ANNOUNCE and /usr/share/doc/ncurses/NEWS
after installation:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce.html#h2-release-notes
This Cygwin release adds some more useful standard terminal definitions
that could be expected to be available in Base package terminfo from
optional additional terminal definitions package terminfo-extra:
bracketed-paste, cygwin*, dumb*, mintty*, mrxvt-*color, rxvt*, tek4014*.
20240120
- improve formatting/style of manpages.
- amend discussion of aliases in tput.1
- use ansi+sgrbold, ansi+sgrdim, ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul, ansi+tabs
ecma+color, ecma+sgr, vt100+4bsd, vt100+pfkeys, vt220+pcedit
xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim
- modify configure scripts/makefiles to omit KEY_RESIZE if the
corresponding SIGWINCH feature is disabled.
20240113
- improve formatting/style of manpages.
- modify dist.mk to avoid passing developer's comments in manpages into
the generated html documentation.
- use ansi+local, ansi+local1, ansi+pp, ansi+rca, ansi+rca2, ansi+sgr
to trim
- restore padding for wy520* and vt320-k311.
20240106
- use ansi+arrows, ansi+apparrows, ansi+csr, ansi+erase, ansi+idc,
ansi+idc1, ansi+idl, ansi+idl1, ansi+inittabs to trim
- minor manpage formatting changes for consistency.
- modify doc-html test package's install-directory, per lintian.
- add attr_get.3x to man_db.renames.in.
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