1993
24 Mar	hard stuff working
25	easy stuff finished up, including documentation
29	wrote Makefile and otherwise prepared for distribution
31	changed incremental searching
1 Apr	posted to comp.lang.tcl (698 lines; 536, excluding instructions)
2	more portable version posted
	browsers `send' to `manShowManFound', sink manual section
4	SEE ALSO links filter, unpacks compressed pages (both inspired by Paul Raines)
5	manX.[zZ] directories, whatis found in text
6	workaround for bind bug, sunken text (both Dan Schenck)
	"Searching for ..." message
7	print: now meta-click, works with compressed ones
	fixed bind problems
	can type in, e.g., print.3v and print.3s; distinction saved in history
	.so links work (thanks Dave Lemke)--but don't do this with compressed pages (which HPs don't)
	various portability/system admin (suggested by model bug reporter Lars Huttar)
8	memory pipe replaces tmp file
10	Emacs-like point and mark
	sections loaded on demand (suggested by Lars Huttar)
	user additions preserved in ~/.tkman 
	quick view of first n lines
11	>1000 lines
	wait cursor, tkinfo shares window with TkMan
12	option to preload or not, instant show update moved to bs2tk
13	restricted search of paths in MANPATH (anthony baxter)
14	case sensitivity switches to searches (anthony baxter)
15	tbl, eqn handled (Mark McIntosh)
17	incremental searching made more like Emacs, flush volume cache (both suggested by Robert Wilensky)
19	fixed handling of compressed pages, section re-viewing much faster
20	solution to multiple, identically-named man pages in different directories, at the expense of volume load on demand
25	different way to deal with multiples
27	hack around Tk text's wordend limitation
29	compressed database hack around
	v1.3.3 released
30	dups menu hangs around, different hack around for compressed database
2 May	faster startup with database (big thanks to Frank Delahoyde)
	SuperMan, of dubious value since it's so slow (suggested by Larry Virden)
5	demo to UCB Tcl/Tk users
7	(none) and (n/a) shown when pulldowns empty (Steve Smoot)
14	manTextOpen, manTextClose, manSectButt
	documented: scan, pipe capability of apropos
	apropos responsive to selected directory switches (Robert Wilensky)
15	more generous focus hits (Steve Smoot), tab moves focus
18	v1.3.4 released
19	v1.3.5 released (fixed bug which affected first-time users)
	default fonts changed from pixel specification to point size (Donn Cave)
29	man page name searching case insensitive--search time 3->4 seconds (Wayne A. Christopher)
1 Jun	multiple instantiations
2	output menu for multiple instantiations
	changed default font to New Century Schoolbook so underscores show up
4	switch all man paths on or off (David Taubman)
7	. and .. to ~ and / (John Hagerman)
25	support for people with only cat directories (6 characters from Mike Beasley)
	v1.4 released
28	deleted "focus $w.show" at very end of proc TkMan.  otherwise if start up iconified, then deiconify before done with init, text window doesn't show up. It's the focus problem again.  (David Svoboda)
29	"update, don't quit" (Gordon Lack & Lord Wodehouse)
1 Jul	lengthier criteria for picking which to show from list of matches (Michael Moore and Kwo-Long Lai)
14	option not to move change bars, apropos filter in variable (both Warren Jessop)
18	manKeyNav's key bindings to variables (David Sibley; thanks Wayne Christopher)
	moved Paths, added `All' to Volumes (Neal McBurnett, friend of Scott Schwartz)
	option to save nroff-formatted version (Warren Jessop)
24	margins around text box (colleague of Gordon Lack)
26	character to indicate popup menu (too bulky and unaesthetic, though)
27	keep list of man pages with dots--startup takes a couple more seconds (Warren Jessop)
4 Aug	check to see if man page source is older than nroff (Warren Jessop)
	C-s C-s retrieves last search pattern, as in Emacs
5	multiple instantiations share menu windows--sabotaged by new requirement in Tk 3.3
6	each instance gets own set of variables
	`|command' syntax for arbitrary text-generating command, `<file' syntax for reading raw file
	uses SearchBox mega widget
8	file name completion (if had fast database could do man page name completion and spelling correction)
11	user annotations (first cool new idea since March!) (could have set of different annotations but would that be useful?) (automatically jump to first highlight?)
17	mandesc-like directory dance hall (clamored for by Oyvind Yrke)
	>2000 lines, 70K characters, despite kicking generally useful code into taputils.tcl
	decision: don't integrate tkinfo (it could use the searchbox megawidget, though)
20	changes to tkmandesc (Oyvind Yrke)
21	SGI support worked out (Paul Raines)
13 Sep	greater control of ordering of added (pseudo) volumes (Paul Raines)
15	submitted to comp.sources.testers
	>80K characters
20	fixed printing of .so pages (Larry Virden)
21	various parts of ui disabled for different text box content types
28	1.5 review version available via comp.sources.testers
7 Oct	iconposition, -nosave, tkmangeometry (Chris Siebenmann)
12	reviews received from comp.sources.testers
	C-d/C-m hot keys (Kwo-Long Lai)
	variety of small changes suggested by the anonymous reviewers
	removed gzip requirement for H-P
	if main window owns X selection, zap it before showing another page
13	taking advantage of bs2tk's new reverse compile, do this for cat page printouts
	show hot spot on a single click (many, Robert Wilensky first)
	more small changes suggested by reviewers
	killing TkMan with window manager's kill removes process
21	>90K characters
24	highlights for symbolic links resolved to physical file
2 Nov	1.5 released for Tcl 7.0/Tk 3.3
24 Dec	TKMAN environment variable sets usual options



1994
1 Jan	support for LANG environment variable (Yasuro Kawata)
21	support for saving to H-P's cat.Z (w/o .Z/.gz/.z suffix)
28	fixed deep weirdness, write protected home directory bugs (Dave Glowacki)
1 Apr	first anniversary
12 May	list of all man pages with highlights (Steven S. Dick)
23	help page maintained in HTML, compiled to Tk text and [tn]roff (can zap linebreaks so get good linebreaking on all screen sizes!)
5 Jun	would like to use idiom like: menubutton -menu [set m [menu $w.x.m]], but have to do this: set m $w.x.m; menubutton -menu $m; menu $m
6 Aug	experiment in moving database to Glimpse
10	compressed list of all man page names works great: < 40K in size (with gzip), quick to search (preserves pattern matching), since kept on disk reduces startup time and memory image runs off tkmandesc orderings so can still do wild additions, section dumps efficient
24	search within virtual sections too
	finds names with dots (again)
26	incremental search highlights match
	try to find needed binaries beforehand, abort if can't (Keith Vetter among others)
1 Sep	support for weird /etc/man.conf (Shannon Jaeger)
	dynamically change font dpi
4	handle .so links to compressed pages (grr)
6	validity checks on components of MANPATH
9	hookup with Glimpse for fulltext search only (& optionally)
12	1.6beta testing
16	glimpse AND apropos, both now dumping results into a pseudo volume
	Perl's out, only Tcl for formatting volumes... sigh
17	automatically rebuild database every month
22	if current mandir != mandir used to build database, automatically rebuild it
26	automatically rebuild database if change in MANPATH or tkmandesc commands
27	-rebuildandquit option (Dietmar Theobald)
	instead of monthly rebuilds, simply check dates of mandirs--it takes a noticable amount of time, but not excessively long (Dietmar Theobald)
29	Volume lists dynamically created, once again controlled by Paths (push from Kevin L. Short)
	database validity check information moved into .tkmandatabase
30 Sep	1.6gamma testing
7 Oct	use simple priority number to choose better the right manual page (why didn't I think of this before?)
31 Oct	list of new/changed manual pages, if any, as pseudovolume
	when looking at header&footer, show date of file also
7 Nov	support for keeping Solaris 1, 1b, 1c, ... volumes separate (Will C Lauer)
10&11	preferences panels (code now >100K characters, >3000 lines)
21	Support for proposed Linux FSSTND /var/catman
23	deep-six the problematic mandir variable and suck up all unique names in manN*/* and catN*/* assuming they're in manN*/* => takes to long to build database
25	abolished mandir variable (which so many didn't set correctly)
	if no manN, check for catN automatically.  lose on stray cats, though
29	manDescAdd also makes that directory available to Glimpse
	Tcl code indention: spaces => tabs, saving 9K
7 Dec	1.6delta testing
8	IBM AIX support: first need to convert InfoExplorer files to /usr/man/cat*. can't parse pages (so don't), so lose on Sections, Links.  but everything else OK
9	restored SGI support (oops!)
15	bad variable values in old save file automatically updated (Martin Forssen & Greg McFarlane)
17	"(none)"'s changed to -state disabled's (don't have someone try it and fail)
20	pulldown menus shrink as necessary to fit on screen, if possible (Marty Leisner)
22	Winter Solstice: 1.6 released for use with RosettaMan + new database
	(100th RCS revision, 3628 lines)
24	updated for Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0
29	new idiom for menubuttons + menus



1995
1 Jan	time to display page once found cut by more than a third by (1) changing while {[gets $fid line]!=1} {eval $line} to while {![eof $fid]} {eval [gets $fid]} and (2) hacking tkText.c to accept multiple (text,tags+mark) pairs
20	right pseudosection set for Shortcuts
24 Mar	tweaks to Glimpse, site-wide installation (John Talintyre)
25	changes for Tk 4.0b3: tk colormodel, -nocase (grr, no easy marks for text widget)
1.7b1	released for Tcl 7.4b3/Tk 4.0b3
26 Apr	chmod a+r for Glimpse indexes (except those in one's home directory) (Jim Ingham)
29 Jun	1.7b2 released for Tcl 7.4b4/Tk 4.0b4
30	1.7b3 released to fix some egregious bug or something
21 Jul	1.7 released for Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0
	Preferences' Defaults button applies to current panel only (Don Libes)
26	1.7.1 released, advertised widely
1 Aug	miscellaneous small fixes, columns for apropos
	>4000 lines (happened sometime earlier)
	1.7.2 released to fix problem in passing command line options
9	added manDescSGI to place catman directories into user-added volumes according to user-specified patterns (Scott Nelson).  Is this a final solution to the SGI issue?
11	only reset gui if something changed in Preferences
	1.7.3b2 advertised to SGI users
18	option to present subvolumes as submenus under Volumes (original version by Nigel Wade)
	1.7.3 released
24	special case for `whatis' file check on dumb BSDI (John Carroll)
10 Oct	1.7.4 released
2 Nov	1.7.5 released
2 Dec	compensate for varying behavior of sed from flavor to flaver (Vin Shelton)
20	place man page name in window title (Simon Blanchard)



1996
16 Jan	option for unified Glimpse index
31	fix up picking right file when have match both with and without extensions (Carl Mascott)
6 Feb	small changes to take advantage of new features in Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1 (foreach, tag prevrange)
11	use clock command instead of exec date
12	final comb through of code to clean up any lingering cruft
	take links from manref tags, fixed manBinCheck on fully-specified paths
20	fixed man.conf support (Hagen Finley)
1 Apr	statistics and information screen
26	fix check for out of date Glimpse indexes (Vinnie Shelton)
13 May	option for single-click hyperlinks (someone in CS160--identify yourself for an acknowledgement)
26	try to reattach highlights to right positions when man page changes
27	5000 lines
 3 Jun  searches give warning before wraparound (Rick Macdonald)
20	choose print destination from a list of printers (Peter Maguire)
23	menu of command line options in each section (maybe not such a good idea after all)
10 Jul  automatically set special case bindings files for virgins on Solaris, SGI, SCO
16	fixed bug related to find and the recent page list that caused inordinately long database build times on some systems (Vinnie Shelton)
19	cumulative statistics recording without afffecting other persistent settings
 5 Oct  dispense with stray cats problem by groking man and cat directories for pages (with only a slight increase in database build time)
22	speed up SGI startup (Paul Raines)
 7 Nov	1.8 released
11	FSSTND directory /var/catman configurable, to one's home directory, say (Bryan M Kramer)
20 Dec  update for Tcl/Tk 8.0: tweaks for compiler, rework fonts
25	speed up database builds by 40% by not checking mtime for every file (how did that happen in the first place?)



1997
 4 Jan	record number of times each page is seen
 7	1.8.1 released
 8	collapse/outline sections
13	2.0a1 released
15	database build time cut in half(!) or more by obviating need to exec helpers
	2.0a2 released
16	just keep database in memory, build at every startup, like xman.  Fast enough if just glob, and can search reasonably quickly with new Tcl lists.  No more .tkmandatabase cluttering up the HOME directory, and no hassle with multiple databases for multiple machine architectures.  Lose shared database, however.  Retain recent section, which is time consuming to compute, by using "after threading".
	2.0a3 released
17	thread manBinCheck
	man page name completion
19	highlights follow along if page, i.e. file, moved
	GNU info reader (of source), a good application for outline viewer
 9 Feb  highlights always/at first/never visible in collapsed outlines
17	if old version of page under RCS, show differences (additions, deletions, changes)
11 Apr	2.0b1 released
27 May  updated for Tcl/Tk 8.0b1
29	view arbitrary file with tk_getOpenFile (Jeffrey Hobbs)
25 Jun	simple support for RFC (dump rfc-index.txt, hyperlinks for id numbers)
 5 Jul	realigned invisible text patch for Tcl/Tk 8.0b2
	if can't find manual page in user's MANPATH, try looking in system master list; likewise for corresponding binaries
23	condensed GUI
26	autoshow (search for and make NoteMarks of) certain words
	long lines (groff's .ll pointed out by Marco Melgazzi)
10 Aug	fuzzy search for man page names (trivial once you think of it)
17 Sep 	2.0 final released
27 Oct	2.0.1 released
	rebus
	2.0.2 released
 2 Nov  sidebar of section, highlight, search
 4 Nov	2.0.3 released
	let PolyglotMan do heavy (time-consuming) lifting for NoteMarks, rebus
	autosearch backgrounded
	=> above two changes greatly speed up initial page viewing
30 Nov	2.0.4 released
20 Dec	regexp search within Texinfo (without glimpse, though need tight tolerences to make it work well)
30 Dec	2.0.5 released



1998
11 Feb	2.0.6 released
20	glimpse across Texinfo
 3 Apr	sped up Texinfo formatting by processing much with regsub before stuffing text info buffer
12	save nuanced definition of last scroll position as Notemark
 8 May	indent Texinfo contents according to hierarchy level (Axel Boldt)
13 Jul	2.1b1 released
 7 Aug	>10000 lines, or more than 18X the lines of code of version 1.0
20 Nov	2.1b2 released.  Final version for Tcl/Tk 8.0 (subsequent versions take advantage of Tcl/Tk 8.1's new regular expressions and other new features)



1999
22 Jan	convert to Tcl 8.1 regexp
27 Jun	run through TclPro Checker; almost all warnings suggest putting arg of "if" or "catch" in braces
 4 Jul	show stray cats as warnings
27 Jul	ugh, SGI also installs .Z (Jan Martin)
24 Aug	2.1b3 released for Tcl/Tk 8.1 and 8.2
23 Sep	support Solaris 7's SGML documentation natively
10 Nov	Windoze port... which works if you have all cygwin installed

2000
29 May	volume names for Solaris 8 added (Jongki Suwandi)
22 Jun	2.1 released for Tcl/Tk 8.3--which has incorporated the elided text patch

2003
12 Mar  updated for Tcl/Tk 8.4
 1 Apr  Tenth birthday.  Version 2.2 for Tcl/Tk 8.4 released.