ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170304

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

diff --git a/man/resizeterm.3x b/man/resizeterm.3x
index 4a3dafaf4ce34fec629786a3ec3e1ce93e27b17f..9ab3b011a1058d27e8f9ade583bc2a20f4c3a57d 100644 (file)
--- a/man/resizeterm.3x
+++ b/man/resizeterm.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2013,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2015,2017 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            *
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Author: Thomas E. Dickey 1996-on
 .\"
-.\" $Id: resizeterm.3x,v 1.20 2015/09/19 22:53:26 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: resizeterm.3x,v 1.22 2017/01/07 19:25:15 tom Exp $
 .TH resizeterm 3X ""
 .de bP
 .IP \(bu 4
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ If ncurses is configured to supply its own SIGWINCH handler,
 .bP
 on receipt of a SIGWINCH, the handler sets a flag
 .bP
-which is tested in \fBwgetch\fP and \fBdoupdate\fP,
+which is tested in \fBwgetch\fP(3X) and \fBdoupdate\fP,
 .bP
 in turn, calling the \fBresizeterm\fR function,
 .bP
@@ -108,6 +108,19 @@ this overrides the library's use of the window size obtained from
 the operating system.
 Thus, even if a SIGWINCH is received,
 no screen size change may be recorded.
+.SH PORTABILITY
+.PP
+It is possible to resize the screen with SVr4 curses,
+by
+.bP
+exiting curses with \fBendwin\fP(3X) and
+.bP
+resuming using \fBrefresh\fP(3X).
+.PP
+Doing that clears the screen and is visually distracting.
+.PP
+This extension of ncurses was introduced in mid-1995.
+It was adopted in NetBSD curses (2001) and PDCurses (2003).
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fBcurs_getch\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_variables\fR(3X),