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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: editline.3,v 1.88 2016/02/25 14:59:22 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: editline.3,v 1.85 2015/11/03 21:36:59 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd February 24, 2016
+.Dd November 3, 2015
.Dt EDITLINE 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
.Nm tok_wreset ,
.Nm tok_line ,
.Nm tok_wline ,
-.Nm tok_str ,
+.Nm tok_str
.Nm tok_wstr
.Nd line editor, history and tokenization functions
.Sh LIBRARY
@@ -130,9 +130,9 @@
.Ft void
.Fn el_wdeletestr "EditLine *e" "int count"
.Ft History *
-.Fn history_init void
+.Fn history_init
.Ft HistoryW *
-.Fn history_winit void
+.Fn history_winit
.Ft void
.Fn history_end "History *h"
.Ft void
@@ -175,16 +175,6 @@ library (which needs the
library).
Programs should be linked with
.Fl ledit ltermcap .
-.Pp
-The
-.Nm
-library respects the
-.Ev LC_CTYPE
-locale set by the application program and never uses
-.Xr setlocale 3
-to change the locale.
-The only locales supported are UTF-8 and the default C or POSIX locale.
-If any other locale is set, behaviour is undefined.
.Sh LINE EDITING FUNCTIONS
The line editing functions use a common data structure,
.Fa EditLine ,
@@ -250,42 +240,14 @@ contains the error code that caused it.
The return value may not remain valid across calls to
.Fn el_gets
and must be copied if the data is to be retained.
-.It Fn el_wgetc
-Read a wide character from the tty, respecting the current locale,
-or from the input stream written by
-.Fn el_wpush
-and
-.Fn el_push
-if that is not empty, and store it in
-.Fa ch .
-If an invalid or incomplete character is found, it is discarded,
-.Va errno
-is set to
-.Er EILSEQ ,
-and the next character is read and stored in
-.Fa ch .
-Returns 1 if a valid character was read, 0 on end of file, or \-1 on
-.Xr read 2
-failure.
-In the latter case,
-.Va errno
-is set to indicate the error.
.It Fn el_getc
-Read a wide character as described for
-.Fn el_wgetc
-and return 0 on end of file or \-1 on failure.
-If the wide character can be represented as a single-byte character,
-convert it with
-.Xr wctob 3 ,
-store the result in
-.Fa ch ,
-and return 1; otherwise, set
-.Va errno
-to
-.Er ERANGE
-and return \-1.
-In the C or POSIX locale, this simply reads a byte, but for any other
-locale, including UTF-8, this is rarely useful.
+Read a character from the tty.
+.Fa ch
+is modified to contain the character read.
+Returns the number of characters read if successful, \-1 otherwise,
+in which case
+.Dv errno
+can be inspected for the cause.
.It Fn el_push
Pushes
.Fa str
@@ -784,7 +746,7 @@ to the last new element of the history.
.It Dv H_ENTER , Fa "const char *str"
Add
.Fa str
-as a new element to the history and, if necessary,
+as a new element to the history, and, if necessary,
removing the oldest entry to keep the list to the created size.
If
.Dv H_SETUNIQUE
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