ANN: ncurses-6.6-20260815

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:15:56 +0000
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 ncurses 6.6 - patch 20260815 - Thomas E. Dickey

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   https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/
   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/

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 https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.6/ncurses-6.6-20260815.patch.gz
 patch by Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
 created  Sun Aug 16 01:08:21 UTC 2026
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 NEWS                              |   22 +
 VERSION                           |    2 
 dist.mk                           |    4 
 doc/html/man/curs_add_wch.3x.html |  215 ++++++++++---------
 doc/html/man/curs_addch.3x.html   |   76 +++---
 doc/html/man/curs_color.3x.html   |  204 +++++++++---------
 doc/html/man/curs_getch.3x.html   |   66 +++--
 doc/html/man/curs_inopts.3x.html  |  191 ++++++++---------
 doc/html/man/ncurses.3x.html      |  397 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 doc/html/man/terminfo.5.html      |    2 
 doc/html/man/tset.1.html          |   12 -
 man/curs_add_wch.3x               |   79 +++++--
 man/curs_addch.3x                 |   71 ++++--
 man/curs_color.3x                 |   26 +-
 man/curs_getch.3x                 |   22 +
 man/curs_inopts.3x                |   26 +-
 man/ncurses.3x                    |   34 +--
 man/tset.1                        |   10 
 misc/terminfo.src                 |   85 +++----
 ncurses/base/lib_mouse.c          |    8 
 ncurses/base/lib_screen.c         |    7 
 ncurses/tinfo/lib_tgoto.c         |    4 
 ncurses/tinfo/read_entry.c        |   23 +-
 ncurses/widechar/lib_ins_wch.c    |   13 -
 package/debian-mingw/changelog    |    4 
 package/debian-mingw64/changelog  |    4 
 package/debian/changelog          |    4 
 package/mingw-ncurses.nsi         |    4 
 package/mingw-ncurses.spec        |    6 
 package/ncurses.spec              |    6 
 package/ncursest.spec             |    6 
 progs/reset_cmd.c                 |    4 
 progs/tic.c                       |   27 +-
 test/Makefile.in                  |    7 
 test/README                       |   46 ++--
 test/dup_field.c                  |   77 +++++-
 test/move_field.c                 |  136 +++++++++---
 test/ncurses.c                    |   24 +-
 38 files changed, 1134 insertions(+), 820 deletions(-)
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20260815
	+ improve tic warnings for paired capabilities, including ich/ich1.
	+ use xterm+tmux2 in xterm+nofkeys to match xterm patch #407 -TD
	+ use ST in xterm+osc104 -TD
	+ use ansi+sc -TD
	+ modify test/dup_field.c to also demonstrate link_field().
	+ work around use of ^D for exiting test/ncurses except in the form
	  test which uses ^D for movement (patch by Branden Robinson).
	+ improve appearance of test/dup_field and test/move_field, adding a
	  help-hint (patches by Branden Robinson).
	+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
	+ add limit-checks in lib_screen.c and lib_ins_wch.c in case a 2-cell
	  character is added at the right-margin (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
	+ improve limit-check for extended names in _nc_read_termtype
	  (report/patch by Yeo Jooho).
	+ improve description of init_extended_color in man page (patch by
	  Andrew Burgess).
	+ modify test/Makefile.in to fix "make check" when ncurses is built in
	  a non-source tree (report by Bruno Haible).


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