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Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/ncurses/man/curs_termcap.3x')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/ncurses/man/curs_termcap.3x | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_termcap.3x b/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_termcap.3x index 01395bf..c7bd81a 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_termcap.3x +++ b/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_termcap.3x @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: curs_termcap.3x,v 1.13 2000/07/01 20:10:57 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: curs_termcap.3x,v 1.14 2000/12/02 22:47:14 tom Exp $ .TH curs_termcap 3X "" .ds n 5 .SH NAME @@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ .br \fB#include <term.h>\fR .br -\fBint tgetent(const char *bp, char *name);\fR +\fBint tgetent(char *bp, const char *name);\fR .br -\fBint tgetflag(const char *id);\fR +\fBint tgetflag(char *id);\fR .br -\fBint tgetnum(const char *id);\fR +\fBint tgetnum(char *id);\fR .br -\fBchar *tgetstr(const char *id, char **area);\fR +\fBchar *tgetstr(char *id, char **area);\fR .br \fBchar *tgoto(const char *cap, int col, int row);\fR .br @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ The return value will also be copied to the buffer pointed to by \fIarea\fR, and the \fIarea\fR value will be updated to point past the null ending this value. +Only the first two characters of the \fBid\fR parameter of +\fBtgetflag\fR, +\fBtgetnum\fR and +\fBtgetstr\fR are compared in lookups. + The \fBtgoto\fR routine instantiates the parameters into the given capability. The output from this routine is to be passed to \fBtputs\fR. @@ -96,7 +101,11 @@ If you call \fBtgetstr\fR to fetch \fBca\fR or any other parameterized string, be aware that it will be returned in terminfo notation, not the older and not-quite-compatible termcap notation. This won't cause problems if all you do with it is call \fBtgoto\fR or \fBtparm\fR, which both expand -terminfo-style. +terminfo-style strings as terminfo. +(The \fBtgoto\fR function, if configured to support termcap, will check +if the string is indeed terminfo-style by looking for "%p" parameters or +"$<..>" delays, and invoke a termcap-style parser if the string does not +appear to be terminfo). Because terminfo conventions for representing padding in string capabilities differ from termcap's, \fBtputs("50");\fR will put out a literal "50" rather |
