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<H1 class="no-header">curs_variables 3x</H1>
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-<STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>COLORS</STRONG>, <STRONG>COLOR_PAIRS</STRONG>, <STRONG>COLS</STRONG>, <STRONG>ESCDELAY</STRONG>, <STRONG>LINES</STRONG>, <STRONG>TABSIZE</STRONG>,
- <STRONG>curscr</STRONG>, <STRONG>newscr</STRONG>, <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG> - <STRONG>curses</STRONG> global variables
+ <STRONG>COLORS</STRONG>, <STRONG>COLOR_PAIRS</STRONG>, <STRONG>COLS</STRONG>, <STRONG>ESCDELAY</STRONG>, <STRONG>LINES</STRONG>, <STRONG>TABSIZE</STRONG>, <STRONG>curscr</STRONG>, <STRONG>newscr</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG> - <STRONG>curses</STRONG> global variables
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
- This page summarizes variables provided by the <STRONG>curses</STRONG> li-
- brary. A more complete description is given in the <STRONG>curs-</STRONG>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">es(3x)</A></STRONG> manual page.
+ This page summarizes variables provided by the <STRONG>curses</STRONG> library. A more
+ complete description is given in the <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> manual page.
- Depending on the configuration, these may be actual vari-
- ables, or macros (see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_threads.3x.html">curs_threads(3x)</A></STRONG> and
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_opaque.3x.html">curs_opaque(3x)</A></STRONG>) which provide read-only access to <EM>curs-</EM>
- <EM>es</EM>'s state. In either case, applications should treat
- them as read-only to avoid confusing the library.
+ Depending on the configuration, these may be actual variables, or
+ macros (see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_threads.3x.html">curs_threads(3x)</A></STRONG> and <STRONG><A HREF="curs_opaque.3x.html">curs_opaque(3x)</A></STRONG>) which provide read-
+ only access to <EM>curses</EM>'s state. In either case, applications should
+ treat them as read-only to avoid confusing the library.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-COLOR_PAIRS">COLOR_PAIRS</a></H3><PRE>
- After initializing curses, this variable contains the num-
- ber of color pairs which the terminal can support. Usual-
- ly the number of color pairs will be the product <STRONG>COL-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>ORS</STRONG>*<STRONG>COLORS</STRONG>, however this is not always true:
+ After initializing curses, this variable contains the number of color
+ pairs which the terminal can support. Usually the number of color
+ pairs will be the product <STRONG>COLORS</STRONG>*<STRONG>COLORS</STRONG>, however this is not always
+ true:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> a few terminals use HLS colors, which do not follow
- this rule
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> a few terminals use HLS colors, which do not follow this rule
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> terminals supporting a large number of colors are lim-
- ited by the number of color pairs that can be repre-
- sented in a <EM>signed</EM> <EM>short</EM> value.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> terminals supporting a large number of colors are limited by the
+ number of color pairs that can be represented in a <EM>signed</EM> <EM>short</EM>
+ value.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-COLORS">COLORS</a></H3><PRE>
- After initializing curses, this variable contains the num-
- ber of colors which the terminal can support.
+ After initializing curses, this variable contains the number of colors
+ which the terminal can support.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-COLS">COLS</a></H3><PRE>
- After initializing curses, this variable contains the
- width of the screen, i.e., the number of columns.
+ After initializing curses, this variable contains the width of the
+ screen, i.e., the number of columns.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-ESCDELAY">ESCDELAY</a></H3><PRE>
- This variable holds the number of milliseconds to wait af-
- ter reading an escape character, to distinguish between an
- individual escape character entered on the keyboard from
- escape sequences sent by cursor- and function-keys (see
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+ This variable holds the number of milliseconds to wait after reading an
+ escape character, to distinguish between an individual escape character
+ entered on the keyboard from escape sequences sent by cursor- and func-
+ tion-keys (see <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-LINES">LINES</a></H3><PRE>
- After initializing curses, this variable contains the
- height of the screen, i.e., the number of lines.
+ After initializing curses, this variable contains the height of the
+ screen, i.e., the number of lines.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-TABSIZE">TABSIZE</a></H3><PRE>
- This variable holds the number of columns used by the
- <EM>curses</EM> library when converting a tab character to spaces
-
as it adds the tab to a window (see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">curs_addch(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+ This variable holds the number of columns used by the <EM>curses</EM> library
+ when converting a tab character to spaces as it adds the tab to a win-
+ dow (see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">curs_addch(3x)</A></STRONG>.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-The-Current-Screen">The Current Screen</a></H3><PRE>
- This implementation of curses uses a special window <STRONG>curscr</STRONG>
- to record its updates to the terminal screen.
+ This implementation of curses uses a special window <STRONG>curscr</STRONG> to record
+ its updates to the terminal screen.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-The-New-Screen">The New Screen</a></H3><PRE>
- This implementation of curses uses a special window <STRONG>newscr</STRONG>
- to hold updates to the terminal screen before applying
- them to <STRONG>curscr</STRONG>.
+ This implementation of curses uses a special window <STRONG>newscr</STRONG> to hold up-
+ dates to the terminal screen before applying them to <STRONG>curscr</STRONG>.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-The-Standard-Screen">The Standard Screen</a></H3><PRE>
- Upon initializing curses, a default window called <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG>,
- which is the size of the terminal screen, is created.
- Many curses functions use this window.
+ Upon initializing curses, a default window called <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG>, which is the
+ size of the terminal screen, is created. Many curses functions use
+ this window.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
- The curses library is initialized using either
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">curs_initscr(3x)</A></STRONG>, or <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">curs_initscr(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+ The curses library is initialized using either <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">initscr(3x)</A></STRONG>, or
+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">newterm(3x)</A></STRONG>.
- If <STRONG>curses</STRONG> is configured to use separate curses/terminfo
- libraries, most of these variables reside in the curses
- library.
+ If <STRONG>curses</STRONG> is configured to use separate curses/terminfo libraries, most
+ of these variables reside in the curses library.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- ESCDELAY and TABSIZE are extensions, not provided in most
- other implementations of curses.
+ ESCDELAY and TABSIZE are extensions, not provided in most other imple-
+ mentations of curses.
ESCDELAY is an extension in AIX curses:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> In AIX, the units for ESCDELAY are <EM>fifths</EM> of a mil-
- lisecond.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> In AIX, the units for ESCDELAY are <EM>fifths</EM> of a millisecond.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> The default value for AIX's ESCDELAY is 0.1 seconds.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> AIX also enforces a limit of 10,000 seconds for ESCDE-
- LAY; this implementation currently has no upper limit.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> AIX also enforces a limit of 10,000 seconds for ESCDELAY; this im-
+ plementation currently has no upper limit.
- This implementation has long used ESCDELAY with units of
- milliseconds, making it impossible to be completely com-
- patible with AIX. Likewise, most users have either decid-
- ed to override the value, or rely upon its default value.
+ This implementation has long used ESCDELAY with units of milliseconds,
+ making it impossible to be completely compatible with AIX. Likewise,
+ most users have either decided to override the value, or rely upon its
+ default value.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_opaque.3x.html">curs_opaque(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>,
- <STRONG><A HREF="
curs_threads.3x.html">curs_threads(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="term_variables.3x.html">term_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_opaque.3x.html">curs_opaque(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_threads.3x.html">curs_threads(3x)</A></STRONG>,
+ <STRONG><A HREF="term_variables.3x.html">term_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>
+
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>
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