ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100515

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

diff --git a/man/ncurses.3x b/man/ncurses.3x
index f3c6932477195f65437bf5f15c64923111724008..448d2f1f315c84929a2dd47eaee19b491f4b4a32 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ncurses.3x
+++ b/man/ncurses.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: ncurses.3x,v 1.91 2008/10/11 20:43:11 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: ncurses.3x,v 1.95 2010/03/13 20:25:19 tom Exp $
 .hy 0
 .TH ncurses 3X ""
 .ds n 5
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ is the approved replacement for
 This describes \fBncurses\fR
 version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
 .PP
-The \fBncurses\fR library emulates the \fBcurses\fR(3X) library of
+The \fBncurses\fR library emulates the curses library of
 System V Release 4 UNIX,
 and XPG4 (X/Open Portability Guide) curses (also known as XSI curses).
 XSI stands for X/Open System Interfaces Extension.
@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ l l .
 =
 COLOR_PAIR/\fBcurs_color\fR(3X)
 PAIR_NUMBER/\fBcurs_attr\fR(3X)
+_nc_free_and_exit/\fBcurs_memleaks\fR(3X)*
+_nc_freeall/\fBcurs_memleaks\fR(3X)*
 _nc_tracebits/\fBcurs_trace\fR(3X)*
 _traceattr/\fBcurs_trace\fR(3X)*
 _traceattr2/\fBcurs_trace\fR(3X)*
@@ -754,6 +756,10 @@ When set, change occurrences of the command_character
 (i.e., the \fBcmdch\fP capability)
 of the loaded terminfo entries to the value of this symbol.
 Very few terminfo entries provide this feature.
+.IP
+Because this name is also used in development environments to represent
+the C compiler's name, \fBncurses\fR ignores it if it does not happen to
+be a single character.
 .TP 5
 COLUMNS
 Specify the width of the screen in characters.
@@ -920,7 +926,7 @@ and is likely to work for terminal emulators.
 .IP
 When setting this variable, you should set it to a nonzero value.
 Setting it to zero (or to a nonnumber)
-disables the special check for Linux and screen.
+disables the special check for "linux" and "screen".
 .TP 5
 NCURSES_TRACE
 During initialization, the \fBncurses\fR debugging library