<!--
* t
****************************************************************************
- * Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey *
+ * Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey *
* Copyright 1998-2015,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
* *
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
* sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written *
* authorization. *
****************************************************************************
- * @Id: curs_addch.3x,v 1.59 2022/02/12 20:07:29 tom Exp @
+ * @Id: curs_addch.3x,v 1.60 2023/03/11 20:39:26 tom Exp @
-->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<HTML>
<STRONG>o</STRONG> The cursor automatically wraps to the beginning of the next line.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> At the bottom of the current scrolling region, and if <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG> is
- enabled, the scrolling region is scrolled up one line.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> At the bottom of the current scrolling region, and if <STRONG><A HREF="scrollok.3x.html">scrollok(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ is enabled, the scrolling region is scrolled up one line.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> If <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG> is not enabled, writing a character at the lower right
- margin succeeds. However, an error is returned because it is not
- possible to wrap to a new line
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> If <STRONG><A HREF="scrollok.3x.html">scrollok(3x)</A></STRONG> is not enabled, writing a character at the lower
+ right margin succeeds. However, an error is returned because it is
+ not possible to wrap to a new line
If <EM>ch</EM> is a tab, newline, carriage return or backspace, the cursor is
moved appropriately within the window:
may be altered by setting the <STRONG>TABSIZE</STRONG> variable.
If <EM>ch</EM> is any other nonprintable character, it is drawn in printable
- form, i.e., the <STRONG>^</STRONG><EM>X</EM> notation used by <STRONG><A HREF="unctrl.3x.html">unctrl(3x)</A></STRONG>. Calling <STRONG>winch</STRONG> after
- adding a nonprintable character does not return the character itself,
- but instead returns the printable representation of the character.
+ form, using the same convention as <STRONG><A HREF="unctrl.3x.html">unctrl(3x)</A></STRONG>:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Control characters are displayed in the <STRONG>^</STRONG><EM>X</EM> notation.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Values above 128 are either meta characters (if the screen has not
+ been initialized, or if <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inopts.3x.html">meta(3x)</A></STRONG> has been called with a <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> E
+ parameter), shown in the <STRONG>M-</STRONG><EM>X</EM> notation, or are displayed as
+ themselves. In the latter case, the values may not be printable;
+ this follows the X/Open specification.
+
+ Calling <STRONG>winch</STRONG> after adding a nonprintable character does not return the
+ character itself, but instead returns the printable representation of
+ the character.
Video attributes can be combined with a character argument passed to
<STRONG>addch</STRONG> or related functions by logical-ORing them into the character.
If it is not possible to add a complete character, an error is
returned:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> If <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG> is not enabled, writing a character at the lower right
- margin succeeds. However, an error is returned because it is not
- possible to wrap to a new line
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> If <STRONG><A HREF="scrollok.3x.html">scrollok(3x)</A></STRONG> is not enabled, writing a character at the lower
+ right margin succeeds. However, an error is returned because it is
+ not possible to wrap to a new line
<STRONG>o</STRONG> If an error is detected when converting a multibyte character to a
sequence of bytes, or if it is not possible to add all of the
projects / ncurses.git / blobdiff