ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231125

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_scanw.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_scanw.3x b/man/curs_scanw.3x
index f51d39b431a11bbe8e020b33494fac9a8145f36f..47993a7ed7fae0f2cf0fe0b863e1df71dd76354d 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_scanw.3x
+++ b/man/curs_scanw.3x
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.41 2023/10/07 21:19:07 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_scanw 3X 2023-10-07 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
+.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.43 2023/11/25 11:31:06 tom Exp $
+.TH curs_scanw 3X 2023-11-25 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
 .ie \n(.g \{\
 .ds `` \(lq
 .ds '' \(rq
@@ -90,44 +90,6 @@ which were mapped in the call.
 Functions with a \*(``mv\*('' prefix first perform a cursor movement using
 \fBwmove\fP, and return an error if the position is outside the window,
 or if the window pointer is null.
-.SH HISTORY
-While \fBscanw\fP was implemented in 4BSD,
-none of the BSD releases used it until 4.4BSD (in a game).
-That early version of curses was before the ANSI C standard.
-It did not use <varargs.h>, though that was available.
-In 1991 (a couple of years after SVr4 was generally available,
-and after the C standard was published),
-other developers updated the library,
-using <stdarg.h> internally in 4.4BSD curses.
-Even with this improvement,
-BSD curses did not use function prototypes (or even declare
-functions) in the <curses.h> header until 1992.
-.PP
-SVr2 documented
-\fBscanw\fP,
-\fBwscanw\fP
-tersely as \*(``scanf through \fIstdscr\fP\*('' and
-tersely as \*(``scanf through \fIwin\fP\*('', respectively.
-.PP
-SVr3 added
-\fBmvscanw\fP, and
-\fBmvwscanw\fP, with a three-line summary saying that they were analogous
-to \fBscanf\fP(3),
-explaining that the string which would be output from \fBscanf\fP(3) would
-instead be output using \fBwaddstr\fP on the given window.
-SVr3 also added \fBvwscanw\fP, saying that the third parameter
-is a \fBva_list\fP, defined in <varargs.h>,
-and referring the reader to the manual pages for \fIvarargs\fP and
-\fBvprintf\fP for detailed descriptions.
-(Because the SVr3 documentation does not mention \fBvscanf\fP,
-that reference to \fBvprintf\fP may not be an error).
-.PP
-SVr4 added no new variations of \fBscanw\fP,
-but provided for using <varargs.h> or <stdarg.h> to define the \fBva_list\fP
-type.
-.PP
-X/Open Curses added \fBvw_scanw\fP to replace \fBvwscanw\fP,
-stating that its \fBva_list\fP definition requires <stdarg.h>.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 In this implementation, \fBvw_scanw\fP and \fBvwscanw\fP are equivalent,
 to support legacy applications.
@@ -167,6 +129,44 @@ since the \fBOK\fP value (zero) is likely to be misleading.
 .IP
 One possible way to get useful results would be to use a "%n" conversion
 at the end of the format string to ensure that something was processed.
+.SH HISTORY
+While \fBscanw\fP was implemented in 4BSD,
+none of the BSD releases used it until 4.4BSD (in a game).
+That early version of curses was before the ANSI C standard.
+It did not use <varargs.h>, though that was available.
+In 1991 (a couple of years after SVr4 was generally available,
+and after the C standard was published),
+other developers updated the library,
+using <stdarg.h> internally in 4.4BSD curses.
+Even with this improvement,
+BSD curses did not use function prototypes (or even declare
+functions) in the <curses.h> header until 1992.
+.PP
+SVr2 documented
+\fBscanw\fP,
+\fBwscanw\fP
+tersely as \*(``scanf through \fIstdscr\fP\*('' and
+tersely as \*(``scanf through \fIwin\fP\*('', respectively.
+.PP
+SVr3 added
+\fBmvscanw\fP, and
+\fBmvwscanw\fP, with a three-line summary saying that they were analogous
+to \fBscanf\fP(3),
+explaining that the string which would be output from \fBscanf\fP(3) would
+instead be output using \fBwaddstr\fP on the given window.
+SVr3 also added \fBvwscanw\fP, saying that the third parameter
+is a \fBva_list\fP, defined in <varargs.h>,
+and referring the reader to the manual pages for \fIvarargs\fP and
+\fBvprintf\fP for detailed descriptions.
+(Because the SVr3 documentation does not mention \fBvscanf\fP,
+that reference to \fBvprintf\fP may not be an error).
+.PP
+SVr4 added no new variations of \fBscanw\fP,
+but provided for using <varargs.h> or <stdarg.h> to define the \fBva_list\fP
+type.
+.PP
+X/Open Curses added \fBvw_scanw\fP to replace \fBvwscanw\fP,
+stating that its \fBva_list\fP definition requires <stdarg.h>.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fB\%curses\fP(3X),
 \fB\%curs_getstr\fP(3X),