ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180519

[ncurses.git] / man / tput.1

diff --git a/man/tput.1 b/man/tput.1
index 72e08311af469a12e785c9a1adf871f0beb361e5..10e47b7b32161fd469994ff62fa590b542a9d23e 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tput.1
+++ b/man/tput.1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 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: tput.1,v 1.56 2017/11/18 23:51:17 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tput.1,v 1.58 2018/05/19 21:07:46 tom Exp $
 .TH @TPUT@ 1 ""
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
 .ds n 1
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ standard output,
 .bP
 standard input and
 .bP
-ultimately \*(lq/dev/tty\*(rq
+ultimately \*(``/dev/tty\*(''
 .RE
 .IP
 to obtain terminal settings.
@@ -244,7 +244,8 @@ Before ncurses 6.1, the two utilities were different from each other:
 (not done with \fB@TPUT@\fP).
 .bP
 On the other hand, \fB@TSET@\fP's repertoire of terminal capabilities for
-resetting the terminal was more limited, i.e., only \fBreset_1string\fP, \fBreset_2string\fP and \fBreset_file\fP
+resetting the terminal was more limited,
+i.e., only \fBreset_1string\fP, \fBreset_2string\fP and \fBreset_file\fP
 in contrast to the tab-stops and margins which are set by this utility.
 .bP
 The \fBreset\fP program is usually an alias for \fB@TSET@\fP,
@@ -283,7 +284,7 @@ terminal in the environmental variable \fBTERM\fR.
 .TP 5
 \fB@TPUT@ cup 0 0\fR
 Send the sequence to move the cursor to row \fB0\fR, column \fB0\fR
-(the upper left corner of the screen, usually known as the \*(lqhome\*(rq
+(the upper left corner of the screen, usually known as the \*(``home\*(''
 cursor position).
 .TP 5
 \fB@TPUT@ clear\fR
@@ -328,7 +329,8 @@ variable \fBTERM\fR.
 .RE
 .TP 5
 \&
-This example shows \fB@TPUT@\fR processing several capabilities in one invocation.
+This example shows \fB@TPUT@\fR processing several capabilities
+in one invocation.
 It clears the screen,
 moves the cursor to position 10, 10
 and turns on bold (extra bright) mode.
@@ -413,7 +415,8 @@ whose \fBinit\fP and \fBreset\fP  subcommands
 (more than half the program) were incorporated from
 the \fBreset\fP feature of BSD \fBtset\fP written by Eric Allman.
 .PP
-Keith Bostic replaced the BSD \fBtput\fP command in 1989 with a new implementation
+Keith Bostic replaced the BSD \fBtput\fP command in 1989
+with a new implementation
 based on the AT&T System V program \fBtput\fP.
 Like the AT&T program, Bostic's version
 accepted some parameters named for \fIterminfo capabilities\fP
@@ -423,11 +426,11 @@ it accepted \fItermcap names\fP for other capabilities.
 Also, Bostic's BSD \fBtput\fP did not modify the terminal I/O modes
 as the earlier BSD \fBtset\fP had done.
 .PP
-At the same time, Bostic added a shell script named \*(lqclear\*(rq,
+At the same time, Bostic added a shell script named \*(``clear\*('',
 which used \fBtput\fP to clear the screen.
 .PP
 Both of these appeared in 4.4BSD,
-becoming the \*(lqmodern\*(rq BSD implementation of \fBtput\fP.
+becoming the \*(``modern\*('' BSD implementation of \fBtput\fP.
 .PP
 This implementation of \fBtput\fP began from a different source than
 AT&T or BSD: Ross Ridge's \fImytinfo\fP package, published on
@@ -453,11 +456,12 @@ may not use the standard output.
 The AT&T implementation's \fBinit\fP and \fBreset\fP commands
 use the BSD (4.1c) \fBtset\fP source, which manipulates terminal modes.
 It successively tries standard output, standard error, standard input
-before falling back to \*(lq/dev/tty\*(rq and finally just assumes
+before falling back to \*(``/dev/tty\*('' and finally just assumes
 a 1200Bd terminal.
 When updating terminal modes, it ignores errors.
 .IP
-Until changes made after ncurses 6.0, \fB@TPUT@\fP did not modify terminal modes.
+Until changes made after ncurses 6.0,
+\fB@TPUT@\fP did not modify terminal modes.
 \fB@TPUT@\fP now uses a similar scheme,
 using functions shared with \fB@TSET@\fP
 (and ultimately based on the 4.4BSD \fBtset\fP).
@@ -525,11 +529,13 @@ only a few may not be apparent.
 X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents \fBtput\fP differently, with \fIcapname\fP
 and the other features used in this implementation.
 .bP
-That is, there are two standards for \fBtput\fP: POSIX (a subset) and X/Open Curses (the full implementation).
+That is, there are two standards for \fBtput\fP:
+POSIX (a subset) and X/Open Curses (the full implementation).
 POSIX documents a subset to avoid the complication of including X/Open Curses
 and the terminal capabilities database.
 .bP
-While it is certainly possible to write a \fBtput\fP program without using curses,
+While it is certainly possible to write a \fBtput\fP program
+without using curses,
 none of the systems which have a curses implementation provide
 a \fBtput\fP utility which does not provide the \fIcapname\fP feature.
 .SH SEE ALSO