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NEWS: shorten, reformat, and sort by severity
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@ -22,168 +22,159 @@ do list all bug numbers). It might be a good idea to sort the entries
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roughly in decreasing order of importance.
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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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* Notable new features
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- (unfinished enhancement 822) UTF-8 as terminal charset: not
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merely UTF-8 I/O of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions.
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Double-cell (aka fullwidth) and non-BMP characters work too, but
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combining characters and right-to-left text do not. The only
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multibyte charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the
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server outputs e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy.
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- (enhancement 844) SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
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the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
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* Incompatibilities
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- ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
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bugs (548, 755, 771) with which malicious web pages can crash or
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hang ELinks, and its security goals are undocumented. If you must
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enable ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the
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ELinks process with a sandbox of some kind.
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- (bug 871) The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends on
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config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
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different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
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previous versions.
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- Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
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hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
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The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
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previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
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* Miscellaneous
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- (enhancement 752) Documentation updates
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- (enhancement 381) Reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
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other arrays.
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- (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and
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terminals.
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* Changes in terminal support
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- (enhancement) Mouse wheel support on BSD via moused -z 4
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- (enhancement) Support for mouse wheel over GPM
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- (bugfix 724) Better parsing of escape sequences and control
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sequences from the terminal.
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- (bugfix) Decode UTF-8 only from bytes, not from codes of special
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keys.
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- (new feature) 24-bit truecolor mode
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- (enhancement) "Resize terminal" tries to use the window size
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increment.
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- (new feature) Support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations.
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- (bugfix) Subprocess forked for SIGTSTP calls _exit, not exit.
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- (enhancement) Turn terminal transparency off by default.
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- (bugfix 776) "elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/" no longer clears
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the screen.
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- (bugfix 948) wrong UTF-8 output after using charset menu
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* Changes in cookies and bookmarks
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- (new feature) "Add server" button in the cookie manager.
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- (enhancement) Tell the user how to move bookmarks.
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- (enhancement 887) Save in cookie manager should save cookies even
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if unmodified.
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* Changes in the user interface
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- (new feature 145) Internal clipboard support
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- (enhancement) Localization updates
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- (bugfix 355) Add documents displayed via "What to do" dialog to
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globhist
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- (new feature) Autocreate directories needed to download a file.
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- (new feature 688) Option ui.show_menu_bar_always
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- (new feature 687) Option ui.tabs.top
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- (new feature) New actions: kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
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move-forward-word
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- (enhancement) Ctrl+characters don't trigger hotkeys in menus and
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dialogs.
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- (bugfix 930) Refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten.
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* Changes in support for URI schemes, protocols, caching, and encodings
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- (bugfix) Fixes cache-control issue. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005
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- (new feature) LZMA decompression
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- (bugfix 517) Fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression
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- (new feature) HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
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- (bugfix 770) Download resuming simply restarts the download
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- (enhancement 790) If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
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- (bugfix) gzip_read: always call gzclearerr
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- (bugfix 107) Recognize "localhost" in file: URIs.
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- (bugfix 756) "assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed"
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after HTTP proxy was changed
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- (bugfix) Encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs.
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- (enhancement) FSP progress indicator and password prompt.
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- (bugfix) Support much longer locale-specific timestamps when
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formatting a directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works.
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* Changes in parsing and rendering of HTML (without DOM)
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- (bugfix) Use frame->name instead of target avoiding possible segfault.
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- (bugfix 284) Render closing parentheses for HTML elements SUB, SUP
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in the same line; don't let them fall to the next.
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- (enhancement) Show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather
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than italics.
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- (enhancement) Add support for parsing space separated CSS class
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attribute values
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- (bugfix 387) Treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline.
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- (bugfix 816) Convert entity references in input/@value only once.
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* Changes in parsing and rendering of non-HTML content-types
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- (new feature 121) If a mailcap entry indicates copiousoutput,
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ELinks itself acts as a pager.
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- (new feature 916) If a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file
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as stdin.
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* Changes in the document viewer and tabs
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- (new feature) Highlight links as one enters link prefixes.
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- (new feature) Backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix.
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- (bugfix) Tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs.
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- (new feature 622) -dump-color-mode
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- (bugfix) Fix accesskeys so that they work when priority is 0
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- (enhancement) Text type-ahead searching: don't follow current link
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on enter
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- (bugfix) Take the terminal charset in account when comparing
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accesskeys.
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- (enhancement) Display accesskeys as e.g. (Alt-f), not just (f).
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* Changes in user scripting
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- (enhancement) Guile: Read hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
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(Keep reading user-hooks.scm, too.)
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- (bugfix) Lua: Don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring.
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- (enhancement) SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an "error".
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- (new feature) SMJS: New properties elinks.action, elinks.globhist,
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elinks.vs.
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- (new feature) SMJS: New function elinks.load_uri.
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- (new feature) SMJS: New method elinks.execute.
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- (enhancement) SMJS: Garbage-collect SMJS objects before flushing
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caches.
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* Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks)
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- (bugfix) Fixed some bugs about compiling outside the source
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directory.
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- (bugfix) Don't use cmp -b, which FreeBSD doesn't support.
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- (bugfix) Don't include <sys/param.h> for MIN and MAX because it
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may interfere with CONFIG_IPV6 on Linux.
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- (bugfix) When the configure script cleans old object files, this
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no longer causes it to loop.
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- (experimental, new feature) --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
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- (bugfix) Include <sys/types.h> and fix compilation on an old
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PPC/Debian system
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- (bitrot) Fix compilation under gcc 4.x. Backported from gentoo portage.
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Also, reduce warnings on gcc 4.2 snapshots.
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- (bitrot) Update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
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- (new feature 779) make uninstall
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- (experimental, new feature) Native Win32 port
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- (enhancement) If make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
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rest before propagating.
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- (enhancement) Avoid compilation of vernum.c in 'make install'
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- (bugfix) Don't use $(AM_CFLAGS) anymore. Use $(CPPFLAGS) instead.
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- (bitrot) Fix two warnings on Mac OS X.
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- (bugfix 725) Fixes version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
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* (experimental) Changes in ECMAScript support
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- (new feature) SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey.
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- (new feature) Handling onsubmit
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- (workaround) window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
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reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script.
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- (enhancement) Recognize document.location.href for SMJS.
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- (enhancement) Better handling of form.action assignments
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- (enhancement) form[x] looks up controls also by id, not only name.
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- (new feature) New property input.selectedIndex.
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- (new feature) Activate link only when onClick returns true.
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- (enhancement) input.accessKey can be any Unicode character except
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U+0000.
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- (new feature) window.setTimeout, window.status
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* (experimental) Changes in SGML/DOM implementation
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- (new feature) Minimalistic RSS renderer
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- (enhancement) Source highlighting also recognizes
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application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
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support arbitrary XML though.
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- (enhancement) Make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
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source highlighting
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- (enhancement) Handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
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- (enhancement) Add support for scanning comment endings such as
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'--!>' correctly
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- (new feature) Incremental parsing
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- And more.
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Notable new features:
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* unfinished enhancement 822: UTF-8 as terminal charset, not
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merely UTF-8 I/O of a unibyte codepage as in previous versions.
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Double-cell (aka fullwidth) and non-BMP characters work too, but
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combining characters and right-to-left text do not. The only
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multibyte charset ELinks can decode is still UTF-8, so if the
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server outputs e.g. Shift-JIS, you'd better recode with a proxy.
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* enhancement 844: SMB protocol using libsmbclient. This replaces
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the smbclient-based code that was disabled in ELinks 0.11.2.
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Incompatibilities:
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* ECMAScript support is now disabled by default. It has known
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bugs (548, 755, 771) with which malicious web pages can crash or
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hang ELinks, and its security goals are undocumented. If you must
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enable ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the
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ELinks process with a sandbox of some kind.
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* bug 871: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends on
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config options. This change makes elinks.conf portable between
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different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
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previous versions.
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* Changed Python goto_url_hook(current) to goto_url_hook(new). The
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hook can call the new function elinks.current_url() if desired.
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The Python scripting back-end is much more featureful than in
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previous releases, but it is still considered experimental.
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* Guile scripting reads hooks.scm rather than internal-hooks.scm.
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(It still reads user-hooks.scm, too.)
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Miscellaneous:
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* minor bug 752 and other documentation updates
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* enhancement 381: reduce memory consumption of codepages and some
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other arrays
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Changes in terminal support:
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* bug 724: better parsing of escape sequences and control
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sequences from the terminal
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* bug 776: "elinks -remote http://elinks.cz/" no longer clears the
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screen
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* bug 948: fix wrong UTF-8 output after the charset menu was used
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* enhancement: mouse wheel support over GPM, and on BSD via moused -z 4
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* enhancement: 24-bit truecolor mode
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* enhancement: support Ctrl+Alt+letter key combinations
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* enhancement: turn terminal transparency off by default
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Changes in cookies:
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* enhancement: "Add server" button in the cookie manager
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* enhancement 887: "Save" in the cookie manager now saves cookies even
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if unmodified.
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Changes in the user interface:
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* bug 355: add documents displayed via "What to do" dialog to the
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global history
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* trivial bug 930: refresh status bar when key prefix is eaten
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* enhancement 145: internal clipboard support
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* enhancement 687: option ui.tabs.top
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* enhancement 688: option ui.show_menu_bar_always
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* enhancement: new actions kill-word-back, move-backward-word,
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move-forward-word
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Changes in support for URI schemes, protocols, caching, and encodings:
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* critical bug 756: "assertion (cached)->object.refcount >= 0 failed"
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after HTTP proxy was changed
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* bug 107: recognize "localhost" in file: URIs
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* Fixes cache-control issue. See elinks-users mail from 28 Oct 2005
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* encode and decode filenames in FSP URLs
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* gzip_read: always call gzclearerr
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* support much longer locale-specific timestamps when formatting a
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directory listing. LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 now works.
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* enhancement 517: fixed and enabled HTTP bzip2 decompression
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* enhancement 790: If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match
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* enhancement: autocreate directories needed to download a file
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* enhancement: LZMA decompression
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* enhancement: HTTP negotiate-auth using GSSAPI
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* enhancement: FSP progress indicator and password prompt
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Changes in parsing and rendering of HTML (without DOM):
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* bug 284: render closing bracket for HTML element SUB in the same
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line; don't let it fall to the next
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* bug 387: treat 
 inside <pre>...</pre> as a newline
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* bug 816: convert entity references in input/@value only once
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* enhancement: show quote characters for HTML element Q, rather than
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italics
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* enhancement: add support for parsing space separated CSS class
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attribute values
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Changes in parsing and rendering of non-HTML content-types:
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* bug 916: if a mailcap entry has no %s, provide the file as stdin
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* enhancement 121: if a mailcap entry indicates copiousoutput, ELinks
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itself acts as a pager
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Changes in the document viewer and tabs:
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* tabs opened by -remote now go behind existing dialogs
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* several accesskey fixes
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* enhancement 622: -dump-color-mode
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* enhancement: highlight links as one enters link prefixes
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* enhancement: backspace backs out the last digit of the prefix
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* enhancement: in text type-ahead searching, don't follow current link
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on enter
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Changes in user scripting:
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* in Lua: don't write to the string returned by lua_tostring
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* enhancement in SMJS: elinks.alert no longer displays as an "error"
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* enhancement in SMJS: new properties elinks.action, elinks.globhist,
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elinks.vs
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* enhancement in SMJS: new function elinks.load_uri
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* enhancement in SMJS: new method elinks.execute
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* enhancement in SMJS: garbage-collect SMJS objects on File -> Flush
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all caches. This is a workaround to how cache_entry SMJS objects
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added in ELinks 0.11.0 prevent ELinks from freeing cache entries
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until SMJS collects them as garbage.
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Build system and compile-time errors (ignore if you don't build ELinks):
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* bug 725: fix version checking for Ruby in 'configure'
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* fixed some bugs about compiling outside the source directory
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* don't use cmp -b, which FreeBSD doesn't support
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* don't include <sys/param.h> for MIN and MAX because it may interfere
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with CONFIG_IPV6 on Linux
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* when the configure script cleans old object files, this no longer
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causes it to loop
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* use $(CPPFLAGS) rather than $(AM_CFLAGS)
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* fix compilation under gcc 4.x. Backported from gentoo portage.
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* include <sys/types.h> and fix compilation on an old PPC/Debian system
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(bug 936 may be related)
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* update SpiderMonkey configure check Debian compatibility
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* enhancement: if make -k was used and a sub-Make fails, build the
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rest before propagating
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* enhancement: avoid compilation of vernum.c in 'make install'
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* enhancement: make uninstall
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* experimental enhancements: --with-python=DIRECTORY, --with-gc=DIRECTORY
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* experimental enhancement: native Win32 port
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Changes in the experimental ECMAScript support:
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* disabled by default, as mentioned under "Incompatibilities" above
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* enhancement: SEE ECMAScript backend, an alternative to SpiderMonkey
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* enhancement: handling onsubmit
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* workaround: window.open remembers the last few URLs and doesn't
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reopen them when incremental rendering reruns the onload script.
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* enhancement: better handling of form.action assignments
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* enhancement: form[x] looks up controls also by id, not only name
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* enhancement: added document.location.href, input.selectedIndex,
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window.setTimeout, window.status
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Changes in the experimental SGML/DOM implementation:
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- enhancement: minimalistic RSS renderer
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- enhancement: source highlighting also recognizes
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application/xhtml+xml and application/docbook+xml. It doesn't yet
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support arbitrary XML though.
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- enhancement: make it possible to use more CSS properties with the
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source highlighting
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- enhancement: handle <base href=""> for HTML source rendering
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- enhancement: add support for scanning comment endings such as
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'--!>' correctly
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- enhancement: incremental parsing
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- and more.
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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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The following changes should be removed from NEWS before ELinks 0.12.0
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@ -193,6 +184,7 @@ have already been considered.
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* Not clear whether the bugs have been fixed:
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- (bugfix 674) Reproduceable crashes while trying to unsubscribe
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from a community on Orkut
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- (bugfix 770) Download resuming simply restarts the download
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* Only partially fixed bugs:
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- (bugfix 764) int/long type punning in options
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- (bugfix 890) Change colors 0-15 to match xterm defaults.
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@ -229,6 +221,11 @@ have already been considered.
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as entity references
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- (bugfix 935) Yes and No buttons override the bottom border of the
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dialog.
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- (bugfix in SEE) Use frame->name instead of target avoiding
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possible segfault.
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* Already backported to a previous release:
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- (enhancement) Activate link only when onClick returns true.
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Fixed bug 786 in ELinks 0.11.2.
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* Reverted changes:
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- (new feature) document.write, reverted in
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2c087e52e74528a720621186b91880463e039d50
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@ -257,6 +254,21 @@ have already been considered.
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(commit 539f756438fca4264ab937b2ccfba2351e916a16)
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- (bugfix) Don't claim that the authentication is for HTTP.
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(commit ef2f6383c6f0bed576e6f69030eacc4931b42a27)
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- (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and
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terminals
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- (bugfix) Decode UTF-8 only from bytes, not from codes of special
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keys.
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- (enhancement) "Resize terminal" tries to use the window size
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increment.
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- (bugfix) Subprocess forked for SIGTSTP calls _exit, not exit.
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- (enhancement) Tell the user how to move bookmarks.
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- (enhancement) Localization updates. For this to be important, we
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should at least list the languages.
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- (enhancement) Ctrl+characters don't trigger hotkeys in menus and
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dialogs.
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- (bitrot) Fix two warnings on Mac OS X.
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- (enhancement) reduce warnings on gcc 4.2 snapshots
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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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ELinks 0.11.3.GIT now:
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