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+                   What's new in screen-3.7 ?
+                  ----------------------------
+
+* Color support. Screen understands the following capabilities:
+      AF (setaf) = Set foreground color (ANSI compatible)
+      AB (setab) = Set background color (ANSI compatible)
+      AX         = Does understand ANSI set default fg/bg color
+                   (\E[39m / \E[49m)
+    The tweaks for the color xterm would be:
+      termcap  xterm 'AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm'
+      terminfo xterm 'AF=\E[3%p1%dm:AB=\E[4%p1%dm'
+  Caution: Screen exposes a bug in X11R6 color xterm. Either use the
+  patch ftp.uni-erlangen.de:pub/utilities/screen/color_xterm_patch
+  or a clean rewrite of xterm: rxvt.
+
+* Resize code completely rewritten. Long lines now get rewrapped,
+  no information gets lost when a window is narrowed and widened. This
+  affects both the visible window and its scrollback buffer. It is a
+  big improvement for the latter. In previous versions the scrollback
+  buffer was clipped when the window narrowed and padded with
+  whitespace when it widened. 
+
+* Input handling changed. The command key can now be a prefix
+  of a function key sequence (hello wyse users :) )
+
+* An empty argument to the escape command is allowed to disable
+  command key processing. This is only allowed if some key
+  is bound to the "command" command. This example makes F1 the
+  new command key and allows the previous command key (usually ^A)
+  to be typed directly:
+      bindkey -k k1 command
+      escape ""
+
+* New 'digraph' command (bound to ^A^V)
+  ^A^Va" or ^A^V0344 input an a-umlaut
+  This helps if you want to work in an ISO-latin1 environment but your
+  terminal's keyboard lacks a some of the more special characters.
+
+* activity/bell message strings can now include the window title
+  and the current date/time:
+    %t - title
+    %n - number (a single % still works)
+    %d - day
+    %D - weekday name
+    %m - month
+    %M - month name
+    %y - year (2 digit)
+    %Y - year (4 digit)
+    %w - hour:minutes (24h format)
+    %W - hour:minutes (12h format)
+    %s - seconds
+    %a - am/pm
+    %A - AM/PM
+  Please do not use a single '%' character for window titles any more.
+  It is obsoleted by '%n' and will vanish in future releases.
+
+* 'defhstatus' command to give every window a default
+   hardstatus line. '^E' is used as a string escape instead of '%'.
+   All the above substitution codes apply, but you must use ^E (octal
+   005) here, as '%' is likely to appear in automaticaly generated
+   hardstatus lines. Try 'defhstatus "Screen: window ^E (^Et)"'.
+
+* In screenrc files and colon command mode: Input parser changed to
+  also understand caret notation ('^') to mean "Control-" (as in
+  the ^E example above).
+
+* "logdir" command changed to "logfile". You can now specify the
+   filename instead of the directory. The same directives as
+   understood by the activity/bell messages can be used.
+   The default is "screenlog.%n".
+
+* Special terminfo workaround make delay processing work for
+  the first time! If you had trouble with padding, then try again.
+
+* New incomprehensible capability XC added to specify character
+  translation depending on the terminal type. See the manual for
+  more details and examples.
+