ncurses 5.7 - patch 20090221

[ncurses.git] / man / terminfo.tail

diff --git a/man/terminfo.tail b/man/terminfo.tail
index 00e0c5927943af0458afd82207abe070f48a2a0f..d06d3a963a63105363eaf1f1bd62cefff7e1aa4a 100644 (file)
--- a/man/terminfo.tail
+++ b/man/terminfo.tail
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-.\" $Id: terminfo.tail,v 1.42 2005/06/25 22:46:03 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: terminfo.tail,v 1.49 2008/02/16 20:57:43 tom Exp $
 .\" Beginning of terminfo.tail file
+.\" This file is part of ncurses.
 .\" See "terminfo.head" for copyright.
 .ps +1
-.PP
+.
 .SS A Sample Entry
-.PP
+.
 The following entry, describing an ANSI-standard terminal, is representative
 of what a \fBterminfo\fR entry for a modern terminal typically looks like.
 .PP
@@ -296,7 +297,7 @@ while the Lear Siegler \s-1ADM-3\s0 is described as
 Cursor addressing and other strings requiring parameters
 in the terminal are described by a
 parameterized string capability, with
-.IR printf (3S)
+.IR printf (3)
 like escapes \fB%x\fR in it.
 For example, to address the cursor, the
 .B cup
@@ -324,7 +325,9 @@ The \fB%\fR encodings have the following meanings:
 outputs `%'
 .TP
 %\fI[[\fP:\fI]flags][width[.precision]][\fPdoxXs\fI]\fP
-as in \fBprintf\fP, flags are [-+#] and space
+as in \fBprintf\fP, flags are [-+#] and space.
+Use a `:' to allow the next character to be a `-' flag,
+avoiding interpreting "%-" as an operator.
 .TP
 %c
 print pop() like %c in \fBprintf\fP
@@ -394,7 +397,7 @@ It is possible to form else-if's a la Algol 68:
 .IP
 where c\di\u are conditions, b\di\u are bodies.
 .IP
-Use the \fB-f\fP option of \fBtic\fP or \fBinfocmp\fP to see
+Use the \fB-f\fP option of \fBtic\fP or \fB@INFOCMP@\fP to see
 the structure of if-the-else's.
 Some strings, e.g., \fBsgr\fP can be very complicated when written
 on one line.
@@ -992,28 +995,36 @@ with the rest of the terminfo description.
 They are normally sent to the terminal, by the
 .I init
 option of the
-.IR tput
+.IR @TPUT@
 program, each time the user logs in.
 They will be printed in the following order:
+.RS
+.TP
 run the program
-.BR iprog ;
+.BR iprog
+.TP
 output
-.BR is1 ;
-.BR is2 ;
+.BR is1
+.BR is2
+.TP
 set the margins using
 .BR mgc ,
 .BR smgl
 and
-.BR smgr ;
+.BR smgr
+.TP
 set tabs using
 .B tbc
 and
-.BR hts ;
+.BR hts
+.TP
 print the file
-.BR if ;
+.BR if
+.TP
 and finally
 output
 .BR is3 .
+.RE
 .PP
 Most initialization is done with
 .BR is2 .
@@ -1024,17 +1035,21 @@ and special cases in
 .B is1
 and
 .BR is3 .
-A pair of sequences that does a harder reset from a totally unknown state
-can be analogously given as
+.PP
+A set of sequences that does a harder reset from a totally unknown state
+can be given as
 .BR rs1 ,
 .BR rs2 ,
-.BR rf ,
+.BR rf
 and
 .BR rs3 ,
 analogous to
-.B is2
+.B is1 ,
+.B is2 ,
+.B if
 and
-.BR if .
+.BR is3
+respectively.
 These strings are output by the
 .IR reset
 program, which is used when the terminal gets into a wedged state.
@@ -1052,6 +1067,28 @@ normally be part of
 but it causes an annoying glitch of the screen and is not normally
 needed since the terminal is usually already in 80 column mode.
 .PP
+The
+.IR reset
+program writes strings
+including
+.BR iprog ,
+etc., in the same order as the
+.IR init
+program, using 
+.BR rs1 ,
+etc., instead of
+.BR is1 ,
+etc.
+If any of
+.BR rs1 ,
+.BR rs2 ,
+.BR rs3 ,
+or
+.BR rf
+reset capability strings are missing, the
+.IR reset
+program falls back upon the corresponding initialization capability string.
+.PP
 If there are commands to set and clear tab stops, they can be given as
 .B tbc
 (clear all tab stops)
@@ -1543,7 +1580,7 @@ and the application has only allocated a 1k buffer,
 *
 and the termcap library (like the one in BSD/OS 1.1 and GNU) reads
 the whole entry into the buffer, no matter what its length, to see
-if it's the entry it wants,
+if it is the entry it wants,
 .TP 5
 *
 and \fBtgetent()\fP is searching for a terminal type that either is the
@@ -1564,19 +1601,19 @@ here but will return incorrect data for the terminal.
 .PP
 The "after tc expansion" length will have a similar effect to the
 above, but only for people who actually set TERM to that terminal
-type, since \fBtgetent()\fP only does "tc" expansion once it's found the
+type, since \fBtgetent()\fP only does "tc" expansion once it is found the
 terminal type it was looking for, not while searching.
 .PP
 In summary, a termcap entry that is longer than 1023 bytes can cause,
 on various combinations of termcap libraries and applications, a core
 dump, warnings, or incorrect operation.
-If it's too long even before
+If it is too long even before
 "tc" expansion, it will have this effect even for users of some other
 terminal types and users whose TERM variable does not have a termcap
 entry.
 .PP
 When in -C (translate to termcap) mode, the \fBncurses\fR implementation of
-\fBtic\fR(1) issues warning messages when the pre-tc length of a termcap
+\fB@TIC@\fR(1M) issues warning messages when the pre-tc length of a termcap
 translation is too long.
 The -c (check) option also checks resolved (after tc
 expansion) lengths.
@@ -1650,10 +1687,10 @@ Supports both the SVr4 set and the AIX extensions.
 \*d/?/*
 files containing terminal descriptions
 .SH SEE ALSO
-\fBtic\fR(1M),
-\fBinfocmp\fR(1M),
+\fB@TIC@\fR(1M),
+\fB@INFOCMP@\fR(1M),
 \fBcurses\fR(3X),
-\fBprintf\fR(3S),
+\fBprintf\fR(3),
 \fBterm\fR(\*n).
 .SH AUTHORS
 Zeyd M. Ben-Halim, Eric S. Raymond, Thomas E. Dickey.