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-<H1 class="no-header">curs_insstr 3x 2023-11-18 ncurses 6.4 Library calls</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_insstr.3x.html">curs_insstr(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_insstr.3x.html">curs_insstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
All functions return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> on success.
- X/Open does not define any error conditions. This implementation
- returns an error
+ X/Open Curses does not specify any error conditions. This
+ implementation returns an error
<STRONG>o</STRONG> if the <EM>win</EM> parameter is null or
<STRONG>o</STRONG> the <STRONG><A HREF="curs_insch.3x.html">winsch(3x)</A></STRONG> function returns an error.
- Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_move.3x.html">wmove(3x)</A></STRONG>, and return an error if the position is outside the window,
- or if the window pointer is null.
+ Functions prefixed with "mv" first perform cursor movement and fail if
+ the position (<EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>) is outside the window boundaries.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4,
- which adds const qualifiers to the arguments.
+ These functions are described in X/Open Curses, Issue 4, which adds
+ <EM>const</EM> qualifiers to the arguments.
- The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that <STRONG>insnstr</STRONG> and
- <STRONG>winsnstr</STRONG> perform wrapping. This is probably an error, since it makes
- this group of functions inconsistent. Also, no implementation of
+ The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that <STRONG>insnstr</STRONG> and
+ <STRONG>winsnstr</STRONG> perform wrapping. This is probably an error, since it makes
+ this group of functions inconsistent. Also, no implementation of
curses documents this inconsistency.
- X/Open states that the entire string is inserted if <EM>n</EM> is less than 1.
- This is probably an error, because it is inconsistent with other
- functions, and differs from the SVr4 and X/Open implementations on
+ X/Open states that the entire string is inserted if <EM>n</EM> is less than 1.
+ This is probably an error, because it is inconsistent with other
+ functions, and differs from the SVr4 and X/Open implementations on
Solaris.
-ncurses 6.4 202
3-11-18 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_insstr.3x.html">curs_insstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 202
4-04-20 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_insstr.3x.html">curs_insstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
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