- These functions copy the (null-terminated) chstr array in-
- to the window image structure starting at the current cur-
- sor position. The four functions with n as the last argu-
- ment copy at most n elements, but no more than will fit on
- the line. If n=-1 then the whole array is copied, to the
- maximum number of characters that will fit on the line.
+
+ These functions copy the (null-terminated) chstr array into the window
+ image structure starting at the current cursor position. The four
+ functions with n as the last argument copy at most n elements, but no
+ more than will fit on the line. If n=-1 then the whole array is
+ copied, to the maximum number of characters that will fit on the line.
- The window cursor is not advanced. These functions work
- faster than waddnstr. On the other hand:
+ The window cursor is not advanced. These functions work faster than
+ waddnstr. On the other hand:
- o they do not perform checking (such as for the newline,
- backspace, or carriage return characters),
+ o they do not perform checking (such as for the newline, backspace,
+ or carriage return characters),
o they do not advance the current cursor position,
- o they do not expand other control characters to ^-es-
- capes, and
+ o they do not expand other control characters to ^-escapes, and
- o they truncate the string if it crosses the right mar-
- gin, rather than wrapping it around to the new line.
+ o they truncate the string if it crosses the right margin, rather
+ than wrapping it around to the new line.
-
-
RETURN VALUE
- All functions return the integer ERR upon failure and OK
- on success.
+
+ All functions return the integer ERR upon failure and OK on success.
- X/Open does not define any error conditions. This imple-
- mentation returns an error if the window pointer is null.
+ X/Open does not define any error conditions. This implementation re-
+ turns an error if the window pointer is null.
- Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
- ment using wmove, and return an error if the position is
- outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
+ Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
+ wmove, and return an error if the position is outside the window, or if
+ the window pointer is null.
-