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diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/man/terminfo.head b/contrib/ncurses/man/terminfo.head index 36945ff..28006d3 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/man/terminfo.head +++ b/contrib/ncurses/man/terminfo.head @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2004,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * .\" * .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.9 2000/08/13 01:56:40 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.13 2006/05/13 15:35:45 tom Exp $ .TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats" .ds n 5 .ds d @TERMINFO@ @@ -45,11 +45,13 @@ and libraries such as describes terminals by giving a set of capabilities which they have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences. +This describes \fBncurses\fR +version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@). .PP Entries in .I terminfo consist of a sequence of `,' separated fields (embedded commas may be -escaped with a backslash or notated as \e072). +escaped with a backslash or notated as \e054). White space after the `,' separator is ignored. The first entry for each terminal gives the names which are known for the terminal, separated by `|' characters. @@ -59,6 +61,16 @@ and all others are understood as synonyms for the terminal name. All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks; the last name may well contain upper case and blanks for readability. .PP +Lines beginning with a `#' in the first column are treated as comments. +While comment lines are legal at any point, the output of \fIcaptoinfo\fP +and \fIinfotocap\fP (aliases for \fItic\fP) +will move comments so they occur only between entries. +.PP +Newlines and leading tabs may be used for formatting entries for readability. +These are removed from parsed entries. +The \fIinfocmp\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions: +the result can be read by \fItic\fP. +.PP Terminal names (except for the last, verbose entry) should be chosen using the following conventions. The particular piece of hardware making up the terminal should |
