X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Ftset.1.html;h=a5669568fb27542268dcf7936a7295962d47ed64;hb=HEAD;hp=4f293c125f827582d3b569dc3a32e234b0018b39;hpb=bf2c36c4930ac5bb04cd2b1ba209cd09b6f510ab;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/tset.1.html b/doc/html/man/tset.1.html index 4f293c12..cbec400c 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/tset.1.html +++ b/doc/html/man/tset.1.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-tset(1) User commands tset(1) @@ -115,8 +115,10 @@ kill characters (among many other things) are set o unless the "-I" option is enabled, the terminal and tab - initialization strings are sent to the standard error output, and - tset waits one second (in case a hardware reset was issued). + initialization strings are sent to the standard error output, and, + if the terminal device does not appear to be a pseudoterminal (as + might be used by a terminal emulator program), tset waits one + second in case a hardware reset was issued. o Finally, if the erase, interrupt and line kill characters have changed, or are not set to their default values, their values are @@ -350,19 +352,19 @@ to set the window size if tset is not able to obtain the window size from the operating system. - o In ncurses, tset obtains the window size using setupterm, which may - be from the operating system, the LINES and COLUMNS environment + o In ncurses, tset obtains the window size using setupterm(3x), which + may be from the operating system, the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables or the terminal description. - Obtaining the window size from the terminal description is common to - both implementations, but considered obsolescent. Its only practical - use is for hardware terminals. Generally speaking, a window size would - be unset only if there were some problem obtaining the value from the - operating system (and setupterm would still fail). For that reason, - the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables may be useful for working - around window-size problems. Those have the drawback that if the - window is resized, those variables must be recomputed and reassigned. - To do this more easily, use the resize(1) program. + Obtaining the window size from a terminal's type description is common + to both implementations, but considered obsolescent. Its only + practical use is for hardware terminals. Generally, the window size + will remain uninitialized only if there were a problem obtaining the + value from the operating system (and setupterm would still fail). The + LINES and COLUMNS environment variables may thus be useful for working + around window-size problems, but have the drawback that if the window + is resized, their values must be recomputed and reassigned. The + resize(1) program distributed with xterm(1) assists this activity.
@@ -393,7 +395,7 @@ -ncurses 6.4 2023-12-23 tset(1) +ncurses 6.5 2024-06-08 tset(1)