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multi-tabed terminal based on rxvt

	if your mrxvt can display CJK text using X11 fonts, but not
	XFT fonts, check whether HAVE_ICONV_H is defined in config.h
	when you compile mrxvt!
    fix tab number when saving terminal status in session management.
	Ooooops, we miss the first tab whose index is zero!!!
    fix leakage of the highest file descriptor to child process. In
	the past, this can be considered as a potential security bug.
	But, only in theory... :p
    fix tab moving behavior when move first tab to left or last tab
	to right. Disable the moving in these two cases because they
	are too complicated to code correctly. :p [Sourceforge bug id
	1107773]
    fix behavior of xterm escape sequence of setting terminal window
	title. We also set the current tab's title so that if the user
	"set titlestring=%f" in ~/.vimrc, the current tab's title is
	set to the opened file as well. I have found it very useful
	to browse among multiple tabs that have different files
	opened. If you do not like this behavior, uncomment the macro
	SET_TAB_TITLE_ON_XTERM_SEQUENCE in feature.h.
    fix behavior of xterm escape sequence of setting terminal window
	title. We introduce a new macro SET_TAB_TITLE_NOT_WIN_TITLE
	to avoid setting window title at all. This is used to help
	vim since vim restores the window title using old window
	title when it exits. This can be annoying - try it and you
	know the reason. If you do not like it, uncomment the macro
	in feature.h.
    fix poor response speed of the active tab if there are busy
	activities in the inactive tabs. Now in rxvt_cmd_getc, we
	first try to return the active tab if it contains input data.
	If there is no input data in the active tab, we process the X
	events to see if they can push input data into the active tab.
	If still not, we return other tab that contain input data. If
	all tabs have no input data, we select on all tabs and then
	pick a tab to return. This is a major fix that delays our
	0.4.0 release. But hey, we want a stable 0.4.0, right?!
    fix tab lockup. It happenes when a tab is particular busy, thus
	the tabs on the right side of this tab are locked up.
    fix configure script: fix check of the utempter, xpm, jpeg and
	png options, fix default option of mouse slip wheel and
	ttygid.
    fix pseudo-transparency when opacity is not enabled.
    fix compile error when utmp is disabled.
    fix manpage for the description of %d.


0.3.11 to 0.3.12
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Jimmy Zhou <[e-mail]>
    add option to enable/disable X session management, compatible to
	Xterm.
    add hotkey function CopySel and PasteSel to copy and paste
	selection. The CopySel function is used to copy the selection 
	in current terminal to the X clipboard, but it is not yet
	implemented. The PasteSel function is used to past the 
	selection in current terminal or the X clipboard into the
	terminal. It is working now. But be careful that define it
	as Ctrl_v may break something! For example, in vi, you might
	want to replace the character ^M, which requires you to type
	in Ctrl_v and Ctrl_m.
    add meta key Primary so that a hotkey can be disabled when the
	terminal is using the secondary screen. This is useful for
	the above problem (Ctrl_v).
    fix X properties, merge them into global Atom array r->h->xa[].
    fix setting terminal window title. Now we support UTF-8 terminal
	titles, which makes it work when we use multichar strings as
	terminal title.
    fix half shadow configuration option, show its value only when
	rxvt scrollbar is enabled.
    fix help message for modes, make them consistent.
    fix resource name in man page. Replace XTerm.ResourceName with
	mrxvt.resourceName to avoid confusion.
    fix resource name of backspace key, delete key, selection style,
	and print pipe. Standardize them as other resource names.
	This will break old rxvt style resource names, but cause
	less confusion.
    fix random bold text under XFT. We disable the bold XFT font in
	order to fix it. This should be a temporary solution.
    fix rxvt_clean_exit. Kill all child processes there since zsh
	puts them into background if we do not do so. Thanks to
	Rob Eberts for the patch.
    fix slow scrolling when XFT antialiasing is enabled. We just
	disable screen refresh at all on scrolling. Now scrolling is
	super fast, e.g., takes about one second to `ls -l /usr/bin'.
	I guess it probably is the fastest in the world.  But there
	is no visual effect of scrolling any more. There is not a
	perfect world, right? :p
    fix poor performance of mouse wheel scrolling when XFT antialiasing
	is enabled. Basically, we just disable screen refresh on
	scrolling. Thanks to Jacques Bouchard for the report.
    fix missing mouse wheel scrolling macros in feature.h.
    fix compile error when mouse wheel is defined.
    fix meta8 and mouseWheelScrollPage option. Now they can be enabled
	by command line options.
    fix cutChars resource and its man page option. Thanks to Ashish
	for the report. 
    fix scrollTtyOutputInhibit man page option. Thanks to Ashish
	for the bug report.
    fix missing parameter when calling rxvt_scr_move_to under
	SCROLL_ON_HOMEEND_KEYS feature. Thanks to Ashish for the
	report.
    fix rxvt_get_pty. Avoid potential compile error for C compilers.
    fix mrxvtset.pl. Replace the control character (^[) with its
	digital forms to avoid the side effect if a user accidently
	cats the script in shell.
    fix configure.ac. Non-GNU C compilers like SUN's cannot accept
	-Wall and -fPIC options.
    fix rxvt_init_hotkeys. Use ANSI_C compliant function instead of
	GCC extension. Thanks to Grant McDorman for the patch.
    fix Cqual qualifiers, non-gcc compilers do not support it. Thanks
	to Grant McDorman for reporting this issue.
    fix possible integer overflow in throttle bell. Also comment out
	this feature in the feature.h.
    fix crash on XftPatternDestroy if we change the font size in
	reverse order, e.g., increase the font size then decrease
	it. It seems that we should not destroy the pattern returned
	by XftFontMatch. But there is no documentation to explain it
	clearly! :-(
    fix rxvt_save_options. Do not save undocumented features :p
    fix keyboard deadlock when Shift_Home (increasing font) is pressed,
	and XIM is enabled, but XIM is not successfully opened. This
	is because the same keyboard events are filtered away by
	rxvt_cmd_getc.
    fix button pixmaps. Narrow the width of the pixmaps so that it
	is the same as the height.
    fix iso8859 fonts. We will only use iso8859-1 fonts as default
	fonts.
    fix multichar encoding routine. Since we set the default encoding
	method (MULTICHAR_ENCODING) in config.h anyway, there is no
	need to *guess* the encoding method from locale if user has
	not supplied it in command line option or X resources. Now
	the encoding routine should be much more clear and simple.
    fix multichar encoding list.
    fix session restart style, pw init value and callback functions.
    fix session restart parameters.
    fix man page for the mfont resource case problem.
    fix compile error because the const definition of ttydev.
    fix configure script for the missing check of limits.h. It is
	required on cygwin.
    fix xdefaults-sample.txt, giving example to disable tricky hotkeys
	that are used by emacs.
    fix drawing button frame. Now the buttons should seem more pretty.
    fix shortcut key bindings of Shift_Home and Shift_End.
    fix rxvt_hotkey_save_config. If HOME environment variable is not
	defined, do not call rxvt_save_config.
    fix rxvt_Exit_signal, call rxvt_clean_exit directly instead of
	sending the signal again to the default signal handler. They
	should have the same effect, but the fix may avoid hanging
	the terminal.


0.3.10 to 0.3.11
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Jimmy Zhou <[e-mail]>
    add Avi Yagodnick's perl script to print escape sequence for
	manipulating mrxvt runtime behavior. So users need not to
	compile the sample settitle.c any more if they have a perl
	interpreter.
    add command line option -ddh to avoid loading default hotkeys.
    add escape sequence to toggle hotkeys.
    add option disableHotkeys to disable hotkeys.
    add option confFileSave and hotkey to save the configuration of
	current running mrxvt process.
    fix default jumpScroll threshold. Increase it to 4 in order to
	get better scrolling performance.
    fix veryBold font option. Use veryBold font by default because of
	the panic screams from the users. ;-)
    fix plain scrollbar residual pixels under transparency. Thanks to
	Matthieu Serrano for the bug report!
    fix off-focus fading wired behavior. It is because the foreground
	and background color of GC is not updated in the function
	rxvt_set_bg_focused. Therefore, the following text is drawn
	using the old color till a color change happens later.
    fix X session management crash.
    fix file descriptors leak to the child processes.
    fix mrxvt hangs on zsh if session management is enabled: we need
	to prevent the file descriptor opened by session manager from
	being leaked to the child processes. And there is a race
	condition when we handle the ICE file descriptor while the
	terminal exits.
    fix broken configure options (oooops! nobody has reported these
	problems ;-).
    fix compile error when tinting is disabled but fading is enabled.
    fix scrollTtyOutputInhibit.
    fix hotkey routines. We optimize it by using function pointers and
	merge three individual flags into one integer. Thanks to
	Qingning Huo for the suggestions.
    fix compile error on rxvt_init_font_fixed if xft is disabled.
    fix the name of icon files and description file in mrxvt.SlackBuild
	script.
    fix documents.


0.3.9 to 0.3.10
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Jimmy Zhou <[e-mail]>
    add Scognito's beautiful icons for mrxvt. Now mrxvt has official
	icons! :-)
    add Pascal Bleser as SuSE package maintainer.
    add a new option to synchronize icon name with active tab, based
	on Terry Griffin's patch.
    add hotkey and escape sequence to toggle background transparency.
	This feature is experimental, though. It may not work well
	with tinting and other transparency related features.
    add .mrxvtrc as the default resource file, so that .Xdefaults is
	not filled by mrxvt settings any more. ;-)  Update all the
	documentations according to this change.
    add xftmSize option to specify the size of freetype multichar
	fonts. When it is difficult for mrxvt to find the best match
	of normal font and multichar font size, the user can adjust
	it manually.
    add xftSlowOutput option to fix display problem of some CJK fonts,
	like YZYuanTi. These fonts claims to have certain width, but
	the actual width is smaller. It makes the CJK characters
	clustered together with big space between non-CJK characters,
	which looks ugly.
    add -menu option. Now we can use -menu command line option besides
	of the X resource name to load menu.
    add hotkeys (Ctrl+Shift+<|>) to reorder active tab. Thanks to 
	Sergey Popov for the suggestion and patch.
    add escape sequence to reorder active tab.
    add an option (-vbf) to display color text with bold font. Add
	freetype bold font support as well.
    add hotkey and escape sequence to toggle very bold font display.
    fix hotkey routines. Now we define a set of functionality that can
	be done by hotkeys and let the users to define the hotkeys by
	themselves. We also have a set of default hotkeys. Thanks to
	Qingning Huo for all the hints and suggestions.
    remove windowSwitch option since it is not necessary any more.
    fix transparent screen refresh after the pixmap of root window has
	changed.
    fix default encoding method, change it to noenc to avoid troubles
	for non-multichar users.
    fix rxvt_font_init_xft. Only load the fixed font if xft is used.
	This avoid the abort when multichar is enabled, but fallback
	X11 fonts are not installed.
    fix rxvt_cmd_getc. Previously hack of race condition is incorrect,
	so it does not work at all! It is actually not a race
	condition, but a signal loss problem if multiple children are
	killed simultaneously. This time it should be fixed.
    fix configure.ac script. Replace AC_PATH_XTRA with AC_PATH_X. The
	latter does not add libXt, libICE automatically. Add libX11
	check. Fix fontconfig and xft check, especially for Solaris.
	And many thanks to Qingning Huo for testing and pointing out
	the problems in configure.ac.
    fix MONO_BOLD definition in thai.c.
    fix tabbar multichar string display error, especially when normal
	text and multichar text are mixed together.
    fix scrollTtyOutput inhibit. Instead of using the previous reverse
	definition, change it to scrollTtyOutputInhibit.
    fix menubar dispatch. If menubar is shown or hidden in dispatcher,
	resize the terminal window accordingly.
    fix CJK configuration options. Merge them into a single option:
	--enable-cjk.
    fix session restart style. Previously it is SmRestartImmediately,
	which cause gnome session manager to restart it immediately
	after an mrxvt terminal quits.
    fix FAQ. Update the PS1 tab title synchronization question
	according to Jacques Bouchard's suggestion.
    fix background pixmap command line option for menubar and tabbar,
	make them consistent to the option of scrollbar.
    fix tabbar event dispatcher when tabbar buttons are hidden.
    fix resource name of scrollbar options. Stuart Midgley pointed
	out this issue to me in the man page. Now the resource name
	of all scrollbar options are changed to `scrollbarBlahBlah'.
	Notice that here `scrollbar' is in lower case. However, I
	leave the option scrollBar unchanged, where `B' is in upper
	case.
    fix Ctrl_1..9 switch. If the current tab is in the second screen,
	like running vim, Ctrl_1..9 switch is disabled since it may
	be used by the application.
    fix primary screen check in tabbar.c, explicitly use PRIMARY. Do
	NOT assume it is 0, just like None/NULL check since it is
	more safe and portable.
    fix configure.ac, xgetdefault option is disabled by default.