ncurses 5.5

[ncurses.git] / man / terminfo.head

diff --git a/man/terminfo.head b/man/terminfo.head
index 36945ff2502b22ba9537e57dbab47c3cb58b7132..398170fffda59b9cdaaff3581b45c9c8bfe1e169 100644 (file)
--- a/man/terminfo.head
+++ b/man/terminfo.head
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                        *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2004 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            *
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.9 2000/08/13 01:56:40 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.12 2004/09/25 19:07:11 tom Exp $
 .TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats"
 .ds n 5
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences.
 Entries in
 .I terminfo
 consist of a sequence of `,' separated fields (embedded commas may be
-escaped with a  backslash or notated as \e072).
+escaped with a backslash or notated as \e054).
 White space after the `,' separator is ignored.
 The first entry for each terminal gives the names which are known for the
 terminal, separated by `|' characters.
@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ and all others are understood as synonyms for the terminal name.
 All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks;
 the last name may well contain upper case and blanks for readability.
 .PP
+Lines beginning with a `#' in the first column are treated as comments.
+While comment lines are legal at any point, the output of \fIcaptoinfo\fP
+and \fIinfotocap\fP (aliases for \fItic\fP)
+will move comments so they occur only between entries.
+.PP
+Newlines and leading tabs may be used for formatting entries for readability.
+These are removed from parsed entries.
+The \fIinfocmp\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions:
+the result can be read by \fItic\fP.
+.PP
 Terminal names (except for the last, verbose entry) should
 be chosen using the following conventions.
 The particular piece of hardware making up the terminal should