ncurses 5.7 - patch 20090221

[ncurses.git] / man / terminfo.tail

diff --git a/man/terminfo.tail b/man/terminfo.tail
index 60d0b70d170ab2f4a02a61be27eaf46f2b1c8fb0..d06d3a963a63105363eaf1f1bd62cefff7e1aa4a 100644 (file)
--- a/man/terminfo.tail
+++ b/man/terminfo.tail
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: terminfo.tail,v 1.48 2007/06/02 20:30:40 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.
 .\" Beginning of terminfo.tail file
 .\" This file is part of ncurses.
 .\" See "terminfo.head" for copyright.


@@ -325,7 +325,9 @@ The \fB%\fR encodings have the following meanings:
 outputs `%'
 .TP
 %\fI[[\fP:\fI]flags][width[.precision]][\fPdoxXs\fI]\fP
 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
 .TP
 %c
 print pop() like %c in \fBprintf\fP