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                   ----------------------------
-                   What's new in screen-3.7 ?
+                   What's new in screen-3.9 ?
                   ----------------------------
 
-* 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.
+* real multiuser support
+    A window can now be displayed on more than one attached displays.
+    Screen does all the necessary clipping if the window size doesn't
+    fit the display.
+    New command:
+      ^AF - fit the window size into the display size.
 
-* 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. 
+* split screen support
+    A display may now host multiple windows.
+    New commands:
+      ^AS - split horizontally. This add another region to the display
+      ^A<Tab> - move the focus to the next region
+      ^AX - kill the current region
+      ^AQ - kill all other regions
 
-* Input handling changed. The command key can now be a prefix
-  of a function key sequence (hello wyse users :) )
+* hardstatus emulation support
+    The last line of the display may now be used as a hardstatus
+    line if the terminal doesn't have the 'hs' capability.
+    New commands:
+      hardstatus [always]lastline
+      hardstatus [always]message
+      hardstatus [always]ignore
 
-* 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 ""
+* configurable window seperator and hardstatus strings
+    The window (region) seperator and the hardstatus can be set to an
+    arbitrary string containing screen's % escape sequences.
+    The window's hardstatus is just another escape sequence, '%h'.
+    New commands:
+      hardstatus string [string]
+      caption string [string]
+    The default strings are "%h" (hardstatus) and "%3n %t" (caption).
 
-* 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.
+* permanent window seperator
+    The window seperator can be set to stay on screen even if
+    the display contains only one region
+    New commands:
+      caption always
+      caption splitonly
 
-* 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.
+* many new escapes
+    %c - current time HH:MM (*CHANGE*: this was %w in screen-3.7)
+    %C - current time HH:MM in 24h format
+    %l - the load of the system
+    %h - hardstatus of the window
+    %w - all window names
+    %W - all window names except the current window
+    %u - all other users on this window
+    %? - the part to the next %? is displayed only if an escape
+         expands to an nonempty string.
+    %: - "else" part of %?
+    Some escapes like %c may be qualified with a '0' (like %0c)
+    to make screen use '0' instead of space as a filler.
+    Others understand a length qualifier, like %3n.
+    If escapes like the current time are used as hardstatus/caption
+    string screen will update them so that you can always have
+    the current time onscreen.
+    *CHANGE* ~ is no longer used as bell character, use ^G instead!
 
-* '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)"'.
+* logfile timestamps and flush timeout
+    New commands:
+      logfile flush <secs>
+      logtstamp [on|off]
+      logtstamp string [string]
+      logtstamp after [secs]
 
-* In screenrc files and colon command mode: Input parser changed to
-  also understand caret notation ('^') to mean "Control-" (as in
-  the ^E example above).
+* configurable breaktype
+    You can now choose one of TIOCSBRK, TCSBRK, tcsendbreak.
+    New commands:
+      breaktype
+      defbreaktype
 
-* "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".
+* other new commands:
+    hstatus - set the window's hardstatus
+    defslowpaste
+    defsilence
 
-* Special terminfo workaround make delay processing work for
-  the first time! If you had trouble with padding, then try again.
+* optional builtin telnet.
+    This is useful if screen is used as frontend to a terminal
+    multiplexor. Use //telnet to access the builtin telnet program,
+    as in: 'screen //telnet host [port]'
 
-* New incomprehensible capability XC added to specify character
-  translation depending on the terminal type. See the manual for
-  more details and examples.
+* remote detach and reattach change:
+    '-d' is now ignored if the screen is already detached and you
+    want to reattach. You can also use '-RR' to make screen use
+    the first session found if more than one session is available.
+    Thus '-d -RR' or '-x -RR' always gets you a screen.
+
+* support for history compaction
+    You can tell screen to suppress trailing blank lines when
+    scolling up text into the history buffer. (Wayne Davison)
+    New command:
+      compacthist
+
+* optional Braille support. If you can read Braille and have one of
+    the devices listed in README.DOTSCREEN, please compile with
+    -DHAVE_BRAILLE and let us know if this feature is useful.