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<esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
wrote many of the new features in versions after 1.8.1
and wrote most of this introduction.
-<A HREF="mailto:juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net">Jürgen Pfeifer</A>
+Jürgen Pfeifer
wrote all of the menu and forms code as well as the
<A HREF="http://www.adahome.com">Ada95</A> binding.
Ongoing work is being done by
-<A HREF="mailto:dickey@herndon4.his.com">Thomas Dickey</A>
-and
-<A HREF="mailto:juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net">Jürgen Pfeifer</A>.
-<A HREF="mailto:florian@gnu.org">Florian La Roche</A>
-acts as the maintainer for the Free Software Foundation, which holds the
-copyright on ncurses.
+<A HREF="mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net">Thomas Dickey</A> (maintainer).
Contact the current maintainers at
<A HREF="mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">bug-ncurses@gnu.org</A>.
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<li>xterm and similar programs such as rxvt.
<li>Linux console, when configured with <CODE>gpm</CODE>(1), Alessandro
Rubini's mouse server.
+<li>FreeBSD sysmouse (console)
<li>OS/2 EMX
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<CODE>newterm()</CODE> instead of <CODE>initscr()</CODE>. <CODE>newterm()</CODE> should
be called once for each terminal. It returns a variable of type
<CODE>SCREEN *</CODE> which should be saved as a reference to that
-terminal. The arguments are the type of the terminal (a string) and
+terminal.
+(NOTE: a SCREEN variable is not a <em>screen</em> in the sense we
+are describing in this introduction, but a collection of
+parameters used to assist in optimizing the display.)
+The arguments are the type of the terminal (a string) and
<CODE>FILE</CODE> pointers for the output and input of the terminal. If
type is NULL then the environment variable <CODE>$TERM</CODE> is used.
<CODE>endwin()</CODE> should called once at wrapup time for each terminal
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<DT> O_NL_OVERLOAD
<DD> Enable overloading of <CODE>REQ_NEW_LINE</CODE> as described in <A
-NAME="fedit">Editing Requests</A>. The value of this option is
+href="#fedit">Editing Requests</A>. The value of this option is
ignored on dynamic fields that have not reached their size limit;
these have no last line, so the circumstances for triggering a
<CODE>REQ_NEXT_FIELD</CODE> never arise.
<DT> O_BS_OVERLOAD
<DD> Enable overloading of <CODE>REQ_DEL_PREV</CODE> as described in
-<A NAME="fedit">Editing Requests</A>.
+<A href="#fedit">Editing Requests</A>.
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The option values are bit-masks and can be composed with logical-or in
projects / ncurses.git / blobdiff