CVS commit: doc

[Hubert Feyrer <hubertf%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    doc
Committed By:   hubertf
Date:           Sun Feb 17 22:44:12 UTC 2002

Modified Files:
        doc: pkg-CHANGES

Log Message:
Update irssi to 0.8.1.
Patch submitted by Otto Hilska <mutru%cc.hut.fi@localhost> in private mail.
Changes:

v0.8.1 2002-02-17  Timo Sirainen <tss%iki.fi@localhost>

        * Expected bugfix release :) Worst thing was that I forgot always to
          debug why /cat /dev/urandom crashed irssi. Well, found two ways
          that could make it happen.

        - Irssi was linked with -lcurses AND -lncurses
        - Logging could have produced GLib errors with certain conditions
        - A few compiler warnings fixes

v0.8.0 2002-02-17  Timo Sirainen <tss%iki.fi@localhost>

        * I really should make releases more often. Once in every two weeks
          used to be nice. Maybe once in a month would be good now. There
          was many reasons why this release took this long .. first being
          addicted to books, then life stuff, then it took forever to figure
          out that irssi was crashing under solaris (and not because of one
          of the big changes I made while moving to IRC from solaris box).

          And now.. well, after this release I'll start working more with
          the yet another irssi rewrite :) The code is getting too ugly
          again, and some things need rewriting to support some new features
          more easily. It will take a while to get it all done, so I'll try
          to keep updating this "stable" irssi as well.

          There's too many changes since 0.7.98.3 (and .4 which was just
          minor bugfix), about 6600 lines in ChangeLog. I'm not going to
          read all that, so I'll just list the biggest changes that I can
          remember now.

          This version was supposed to be called 0.7.99, but since there
          were so many changes, and I originally though of putting 0.8.0
          out long time ago, and 0.7.100 would look stupid, I guess it's
          time for 0.8.0 :)

        + /UPGRADE - upgrade irssi to new version on-the-fly without
          disconnecting from server, so other people won't even notice you
          quit from IRC. This ONLY executes the new binary, it does NOT
          download/compile/whatever irssi.
        + UTF-8 support with /SET term_type UTF-8, default is "8bit".
          It's also automatically detected from system locale (if supported).
        + Fully configurable statusbar. Yes. FULLY. Don't bother asking if
          something could be done with it, it can, just ask how. Well,
          there's a few things I didn't have time/energy to finish:
          window-specific statusbar groups and support for multiple input
          lines in screen.
        + Rewritten keyboard handling. No more the CTRL-X and ALT-x handling,
          now you can create whatever keyboard combinations your terminal
          can send to irssi.
        + Rewritten text buffer (scrollback) handling.
        + Irssi doesn't depend on curses anymore, so it can be installed
          anywhere a working terminfo/termcap exists. This also allows us to
          use all the possible colors terminal has (curses limits to 64), so
          eg. %0 is now always black background, not the default terminal
          background (%n).

          Several systems have also terminfo/termcap database that doesn't
          support colors, so I've added /SET term_force_colors option to
          force ANSI-style colors. Note that eg. BitchX does this by default.

          Getting rid of curses allows also one great thing for you people
          copy&pasting long urls :) If a long word gets split to two lines,
          doubleclicking the word selects it from both lines.
        + Rewritten server event redirections. Before it was pretty easy to
          mess up irssi's expectations of what server sends, and some things
          might have stayd in the buffer forever. Especially notify lists
          messed up /WHOIS requests for the notified people. Now all this
          should be history and it's a lot easier for scripts to use the
          redirections as well.
        + New ICB chat protocol plugin - very basic and doesn't support
          nicklist, but works. :)
        + --home and --config parameters to specify alternate ~/.irssi
          directory or config file.
        + Scripts can be unloaded separately with /SCRIPT UNLOAD. You can get
          a list of runnning scripts with /SCRIPT.
        + /SERVER PURGE [<target>] - purge the output buffer (for given
          target). Useful for example if you accidentally paste 100 lines :)
          The buffer is automatically purged if you get kicked from channel,
          or if you /PART the channel and there's more than 10 lines in
          output buffer.


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cvs rdiff -r1.6016 -r1.6017 doc/pkg-CHANGES

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