ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130309

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

diff --git a/man/curs_scanw.3x b/man/curs_scanw.3x
index 97449bd50e0980bc4fcdd587a31f78239058f404..a3208f5627c8238bb0188f1e1fa9d5fde5c17257 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_scanw.3x
+++ b/man/curs_scanw.3x
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.15 2010/07/31 16:10:55 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.17 2010/12/04 18:40:45 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_scanw 3X ""
 .SH NAME
 \fBscanw\fR,
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ number of fields scanned on success.
 Applications may use the return value from the \fBscanw\fR, \fBwscanw\fR,
 \fBmvscanw\fR and \fBmvwscanw\fR routines to determine the number of fields
 which were mapped in the call.
+.PP
+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 PORTABILITY
 The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.  The function
 \fBvwscanw\fR is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function
@@ -89,9 +93,3 @@ 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 SEE ALSO
 \fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBcurs_getstr\fR(3X), \fBcurs_printw\fR(3X), \fBscanf\fR(3)
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