# Author: Juergen Pfeifer, 1996
# and: Thomas E. Dickey, 1997
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-# $Id: Makefile.in,v 1.97 2021/07/03 15:45:33 tom Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile.in,v 1.98 2021/12/25 22:34:44 tom Exp $
#
.SUFFIXES:
$(M4) $(M4FLAGS) -DM4MACRO=table.m4 $$f | $(DEL_ADAMODE) >> $@ ;\
done;
+TABLE_TITLE=Correspondence between ncurses C and Ada functions
+
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@-touch $@
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- @echo '<!DOCTYPE HTML' > $@
- @echo 'PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN">' >> $@
- @echo '<HTML>' >> $@
- @echo '<HEAD>' >> $@
- @echo '<TITLE>Correspondence between ncurses C and Ada functions</TITLE>' >>$@
- @echo '</HEAD>' >> $@
- @echo '<BODY>' >> $@
- @echo '<H1>Correspondence between ncurses C and Ada functions</H1>' >>$@
- @echo '<H2>Sorted by C function name</H2>' >>$@
- @echo '<TABLE ALIGN=CENTER BORDER>' >>$@
- @echo '<TR ALIGN=LEFT>' >>$@
- @echo '<TH>C name</TH><TH>Ada name</TH><TH>man page</TH></TR>' >>$@
+ @echo '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">' > $@
+ @echo '<html>' >> $@
+ @echo '<head>' >> $@
+ @echo '<title>$(TABLE_TITLE)</title>' >>$@
+ @echo '</head>' >> $@
+ @echo '<body>' >> $@
+ @echo '<h1>$(TABLE_TITLE)</h1>' >>$@
+ @echo '<h2>Sorted by C function name</h2>' >>$@
+ @echo '<table align="center" border summary="$(TABLE_TITLE)">' >>$@
+ @echo '<tr align="left">' >>$@
+ @echo '<th>C name</th><th>Ada name</th><th>man page</th></tr>' >>$@
@sort < instab.tmp >> $@
- @echo '</TABLE></BODY></HTML>' >>$@
+ @echo '</table></body></html>' >>$@
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20211225
+ + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
+ (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
+
20211219
+ install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
script to invoke those.
-5:0:10 6.3 20211219
+5:0:10 6.3 20211225
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# Makefile for creating ncurses distributions.
#
# This only needs to be used directly as a makefile by developers, but
# These define the major/minor/patch versions of ncurses.
NCURSES_MAJOR = 6
NCURSES_MINOR = 3
-NCURSES_PATCH = 20211219
+NCURSES_PATCH = 20211225
# We don't append the patch to the version, since this only applies to releases
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<LI><A HREF="../terminal_interface-curses-termcap__adb.htm#ref_109_16" TARGET="main">tgetstr - terminal_interface-curses-termcap.adb:109</A>
<LI><A HREF="../terminal_interface-curses-termcap__adb.htm#ref_130_16" TARGET="main">tgetstr - terminal_interface-curses-termcap.adb:130</A>
-<LI><A HREF="../terminal_interface-curses-termcap__ads.htm#ref_54_13" TARGET="main">TGoto</A>
<LI><A HREF="../terminal_interface-curses-termcap__adb.htm#ref_152_16" TARGET="main">tgoto</A>
+<LI><A HREF="../terminal_interface-curses-termcap__ads.htm#ref_54_13" TARGET="main">TGoto</A>
<LI><A HREF="../terminal_interface-curses-terminfo__adb.htm#ref_70_16" TARGET="main">tigetflag</A>
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-<H2>Sorted by C function name</H2>
-<TABLE ALIGN=CENTER BORDER>
-<TR ALIGN=LEFT>
-<TH>C name</TH><TH>Ada name</TH><TH>man page</TH></TR>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Correspondence between ncurses C and Ada functions</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Correspondence between ncurses C and Ada functions</h1>
+<h2>Sorted by C function name</h2>
+<table align="center" border summary="Correspondence between ncurses C and Ada functions">
+<tr align="left">
+<th>C name</th><th>Ada name</th><th>man page</th></tr>
<TR><TD>assume_default_colors()</TD><TD><A HREF="terminal_interface-curses__ads.htm#AFU_156">Assume_Default_Colors</A></TD><TD><A HREF="../man/default_colors.3x.html">default_colors.3x</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD>baudrate()</TD><TD><A HREF="terminal_interface-curses__ads.htm#AFU_131">Baudrate</A></TD><TD><A HREF="../man/curs_termattrs.3x.html">curs_termattrs.3x</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD>beep()</TD><TD><A HREF="terminal_interface-curses__ads.htm#AFU_40">Beep</A></TD><TD><A HREF="../man/curs_beep.3x.html">curs_beep.3x</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD>wtimeout()</TD><TD><A HREF="terminal_interface-curses__ads.htm#AFU_51">Set_Timeout_Mode</A></TD><TD><A HREF="../man/curs_inopts.3x.html">curs_inopts.3x</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD>wtouchln()</TD><TD><A HREF="terminal_interface-curses__ads.htm#AFU_76">Change_Line_Status</A></TD><TD><A HREF="../man/curs_touch.3x.html">curs_touch.3x</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD>wvline()</TD><TD><A HREF="terminal_interface-curses__ads.htm#AFU_28">Vertical_Line</A></TD><TD><A HREF="../man/curs_border.3x.html">curs_border.3x</A></TD></TR>
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</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211021).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
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</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211021).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
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* these would be fallbacks for DS/DE,
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+
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<H1 class="no-header">clear 1</H1>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>clear</STRONG> clears your screen if this is possible, including its scrollback
- buffer (if the extended "E3" capability is defined). <STRONG>clear</STRONG> looks in
- the environment for the terminal type given by the environment variable
- <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>, and then in the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database to determine how to clear the
- screen.
+ <STRONG>clear</STRONG> clears your terminal's screen if this is possible, including the
+ terminal's scrollback buffer (if the extended "E3" capability is
+ defined). <STRONG>clear</STRONG> looks in the environment for the terminal type given
+ by the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>, and then in the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database to
+ determine how to clear the screen.
<STRONG>clear</STRONG> writes to the standard output. You can redirect the standard
output to a file (which prevents <STRONG>clear</STRONG> from actually clearing the
The <STRONG>E3</STRONG> extension came later:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> In June 1999, xterm provided an extension to the standard control
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> In June 1999, <STRONG>xterm</STRONG> provided an extension to the standard control
sequence for clearing the screen. Rather than clearing just the
visible part of the screen using
printf '\033[<STRONG>3</STRONG>J'
This is documented in <EM>XTerm</EM> <EM>Control</EM> <EM>Sequences</EM> as a feature
- originating with xterm.
+ originating with <STRONG>xterm</STRONG>.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> A few other terminal developers adopted the feature, e.g., PuTTY in
2006.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> In April 2011, a Red Hat developer submitted a patch to the Linux
kernel, modifying its console driver to do the same thing. The
- Linux change, part of the 3.0 release, did not mention xterm,
+ Linux change, part of the 3.0 release, did not mention <STRONG>xterm</STRONG>,
although it was cited in the Red Hat bug report (#683733) which led
to the change.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="tput.1.html">tput(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="tput.1.html">tput(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>xterm(1)</STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211021).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
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<STRONG>o</STRONG> NetBSD curses defines the symbols as a <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> within a <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG>.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> HPUX curses equates some of the <EM>ACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> symbols to the analogous <EM>WACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG>
- symbols as if the <EM>ACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> symbols were wide characters. The
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> HPUX curses equates some of the <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> symbols to the analogous <STRONG>WACS_</STRONG>
+ symbols as if the <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> symbols were wide characters. The
misdefined symbols are the arrows and other symbols which are not
used for line-drawing.
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<STRONG>o</STRONG> they truncate the string if it crosses the right margin, rather
than wrapping it around to the new line.
- These functions end successfully on encountering a null <EM>cchar</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>t</EM>, or
+ These functions end successfully on encountering a null <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG>, or
when they have filled the current line. If a complex character cannot
completely fit at the end of the current line, the remaining columns
are filled with the background character and rendition.
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</PRE><H3><a name="h3-ACS-Symbols">ACS Symbols</a></H3><PRE>
- X/Open Curses states that the <EM>ACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> definitions are <STRONG>char</STRONG> constants. For
+ X/Open Curses states that the <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> definitions are <STRONG>char</STRONG> constants. For
the wide-character implementation (see <STRONG>curs_add_wch</STRONG>), there are
- analogous <EM>WACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> definitions which are <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> constants. Some
+ analogous <STRONG>WACS_</STRONG> definitions which are <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> constants. Some
implementations are problematic:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Some implementations define the ACS symbols to a constant (such as
NetBSD also uses an array, actually named <STRONG>_acs_char</STRONG>, with a <STRONG>#define</STRONG>
for compatibility.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> HPUX curses equates some of the <EM>ACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> symbols to the analogous <EM>WACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG>
- symbols as if the <EM>ACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> symbols were wide characters. The
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> HPUX curses equates some of the <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> symbols to the analogous <STRONG>WACS_</STRONG>
+ symbols as if the <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> symbols were wide characters. The
misdefined symbols are the arrows and other symbols which are not
used for line-drawing.
implementations use <STRONG>i</STRONG> (lowercase).
None of the terminal descriptions on Unix platforms use uppercase-
- I, except for Solaris (i.e., <EM>screen</EM>'s terminal description,
+ I, except for Solaris (i.e., <STRONG>screen</STRONG>'s terminal description,
apparently based on the X/Open documentation around 1995). On the
other hand, the terminal description <EM>gs6300</EM> (AT&T PC6300 with EMOTS
Terminal Emulator) uses lowercase-i.
second-hand list of their character descriptions has come to light.
The ACS-prefixed names for them were invented for <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
- The <EM>displayed</EM> values for the <EM>ACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> and <EM>WACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> constants depend on
+ The <EM>displayed</EM> values for the <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> and <STRONG>WACS_</STRONG> constants depend on
<STRONG>o</STRONG> the library configuration, i.e., <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> versus <STRONG>ncursesw</STRONG>, where the
latter is capable of displaying Unicode while the former is not,
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the routines <STRONG>attron</STRONG>, <STRONG>attroff</STRONG>, and <STRONG>attrset</STRONG>, or OR'd with the characters
passed to <STRONG>addch</STRONG> (see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">curs_addch(3x)</A></STRONG>).
- <EM>Name</EM> <EM>Description</EM>
+ <STRONG>Name</STRONG> <STRONG>Description</STRONG>
-----------------------------------------------------------------
<STRONG>A_NORMAL</STRONG> Normal display (no highlight)
<STRONG>A_STANDOUT</STRONG> Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
These video attributes are supported by <STRONG>attr_on</STRONG> and related functions
(which also support the attributes recognized by <STRONG>attron</STRONG>, etc.):
- <EM>Name</EM> <EM>Description</EM>
+ <STRONG>Name</STRONG> <STRONG>Description</STRONG>
-----------------------------------------
<STRONG>WA_HORIZONTAL</STRONG> Horizontal highlight
<STRONG>WA_LEFT</STRONG> Left highlight
nate character set implementation. A 32-bit library can be used on a
64-bit system, but not necessarily the reverse.
- <EM>Year</EM> <EM>System</EM> <EM>Arch</EM> <EM>Color</EM> <EM>Char</EM> <EM>Notes</EM>
+ <STRONG>Year</STRONG> <STRONG>System</STRONG> <STRONG>Arch</STRONG> <STRONG>Color</STRONG> <STRONG>Char</STRONG> <STRONG>Notes</STRONG>
----------------------------------------------------------------
1992 Solaris 5.2 32 6 17 SVr4 curses
1992 HPUX 9 32 no 8 SVr2 curses
Other interfaces are rarely used now:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> BSD curses was improved slightly in 1993/1994 using Keith Bostic's
- modification to make the library 8-bit clean for <STRONG>nvi</STRONG>. He moved
+ modification to make the library 8-bit clean for <STRONG>nvi(1)</STRONG>. He moved
<EM>standout</EM> attribute to a structure member.
The resulting 4.4BSD curses was replaced by ncurses over the next
macros prefixed with <STRONG>WA_</STRONG>. The older macros have direct counterparts in
the newer set of names:
- <EM>Name</EM> <EM>Description</EM>
+ <STRONG>Name</STRONG> <STRONG>Description</STRONG>
------------------------------------------------------------
<STRONG>WA_NORMAL</STRONG> Normal display (no highlight)
<STRONG>WA_STANDOUT</STRONG> Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
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X/Open curses documented these functions to pass an array of <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> in
1997, but that was an error because of this part of the description:
- The effect of <EM>get</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>wstr()</EM> is as though a series of calls to
- <EM>get</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>wch()</EM> were made, until a newline character, end-of-line
- character, or end-of-file character is processed.
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+ were made, until a newline character, end-of-line character, or
+ end-of-file character is processed.
- The latter function <EM>get</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>wch()</EM> can return a negative value, while
- <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> is a unsigned type. All of the vendors implement this using
- <STRONG>wint_t</STRONG>, following the standard.
+ The latter function <EM>get</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>wch</EM> can return a negative value, while <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG>
+ is a unsigned type. All of the vendors implement this using <STRONG>wint_t</STRONG>,
+ following the standard.
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nating <EM>null</EM> <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> value is counted in the length parameter <EM>n</EM>. X/Open
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<STRONG>o</STRONG> HP-UX 10 uses an opaque structure with 28 bytes, which is large
enough for the 6 <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> values.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> Solaris xpg4 curses uses a single array of 6 <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> values.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Solaris <EM>xpg4</EM> curses uses a single array of 6 <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> values.
This implementation's <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> was defined in 1995 using <STRONG>5</STRONG> for the total
of spacing and non-spacing characters (<STRONG>CCHARW_MAX</STRONG>). That was probably
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the long terminfo capability names for the keys, and were defined
long ago, in the 1980s.
- <EM>Name</EM> <EM>Key</EM> <EM>name</EM>
+ <STRONG>Name</STRONG> <STRONG>Key</STRONG> <STRONG>name</STRONG>
-------------------------------------------------
KEY_BREAK Break key
KEY_DOWN The four arrow keys ...
<STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>KEY_MOUSE</STRONG> is returned for mouse-events (see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_mouse.3x.html">curs_mouse(3x)</A></STRONG>). This
code relies upon whether or not <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inopts.3x.html">keypad(3x)</A></STRONG> has been enabled, be-
- cause (e.g., with <EM>xterm</EM> mouse prototocol) ncurses must read escape
- sequences, just like a function key.
+ cause (e.g., with <STRONG>xterm(1)</STRONG> mouse prototocol) ncurses must read es-
+ cape sequences, just like a function key.
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* X/Open says also until EOf
* X/Open says then an EOS is added to the result
* X/Open doesn't mention n<0
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into account when deciding whether to handle echoing within <STRONG>getnstr</STRONG>
or as a side-effect of the <STRONG>getch</STRONG> calls.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> The original ncurses (as pcurses in 1986) set <STRONG>noraw</STRONG> and <STRONG>cbreak</STRONG> when
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> The original ncurses (as <EM>pcurses</EM> in 1986) set <STRONG>noraw</STRONG> and <STRONG>cbreak</STRONG> when
accepting input for <STRONG>getnstr</STRONG>. That may have been done to make func-
tion- and cursor-keys work; it is not necessary with ncurses.
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</PRE><H3><a name="h3-set_term">set_term</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>set_term</STRONG> routine is used to switch between different terminals.
- The screen reference <STRONG>new</STRONG> becomes the new current terminal. The previ-
+ The screen reference <EM>new</EM> becomes the new current terminal. The previ-
ous terminal is returned by the routine. This is the only routine
which manipulates <STRONG>SCREEN</STRONG> pointers; all other routines affect only the
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</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Mouse-events">Mouse events</a></H3><PRE>
Here are the mouse event type masks which may be defined:
- <EM>Name</EM> <EM>Description</EM>
+ <STRONG>Name</STRONG> <STRONG>Description</STRONG>
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BUTTON1_PRESSED mouse button 1 down
BUTTON1_RELEASED mouse button 1 up
reserve lines on top or bottom of the screen for other purposes (see
the <STRONG>ripoffline</STRONG> and <STRONG><A HREF="curs_slk.3x.html">slk_init(3x)</A></STRONG> calls, for example).
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> If the parameter <STRONG>to_screen</STRONG> is <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>, the pointers <STRONG>pY,</STRONG> <STRONG>pX</STRONG> must refer-
- ence the coordinates of a location inside the window <STRONG>win</STRONG>. They are
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> If the parameter <EM>to</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>screen</EM> is <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>, the pointers <EM>pY,</EM> <EM>pX</EM> must refer-
+ ence the coordinates of a location inside the window <EM>win</EM>. They are
converted to window-relative coordinates and returned through the
pointers. If the conversion was successful, the function returns
<STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> If one of the parameters was NULL or the location is not inside the
window, <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG> is returned.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> If <STRONG>to_screen</STRONG> is <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>, the pointers <STRONG>pY,</STRONG> <STRONG>pX</STRONG> must reference window-
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> If <EM>to</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>screen</EM> is <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>, the pointers <EM>pY,</EM> <EM>pX</EM> must reference window-
relative coordinates. They are converted to stdscr-relative coor-
- dinates if the window <STRONG>win</STRONG> encloses this point. In this case the
+ dinates if the window <EM>win</EM> encloses this point. In this case the
function returns <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> If one of the parameters is NULL or the point is not inside the
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-mouse_trafo">mouse_trafo</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>mouse_trafo</STRONG> function performs the same translation as <STRONG>wmouse_trafo</STRONG>,
- using stdscr for <STRONG>win</STRONG>.
+ using stdscr for <EM>win</EM>.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-mouseinterval">mouseinterval</a></H3><PRE>
These calls were designed for <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>, and are not found in SVr4
curses, 4.4BSD curses, or any other previous version of curses.
- SVr4 curses had support for the mouse in a variant of <STRONG>xterm</STRONG>. It is
+ SVr4 curses had support for the mouse in a variant of <STRONG>xterm(1)</STRONG>. It is
mentioned in a few places, but with no supporting documentation:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> the "libcurses" manual page lists functions for this feature which
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would be output from <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG> would instead be output using <STRONG>waddstr</STRONG> on
the given window. SVr3 also added <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, saying that the third pa-
rameter is a <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>, defined in <varargs.h>, and referring the reader
- to the manual pages for <EM>varargs</EM> and <EM>vprintf</EM> for detailed descriptions.
+ to the manual pages for <EM>varargs</EM> and <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG> for detailed descriptions.
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<varargs.h> or <stdarg.h> to define the <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> type.
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The <STRONG>vwscanw</STRONG> and <STRONG>vw_scanw</STRONG> routines are analogous to <STRONG>vscanf(3)</STRONG>. They
perform a <STRONG>wscanw</STRONG> using a variable argument list. The third argument is
- a <EM>va</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>list</EM>, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG>.
+ a <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG>.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
be output from <STRONG>scanf(3)</STRONG> would instead be output using <STRONG>waddstr</STRONG> on the
given window. SVr3 also added <STRONG>vwscanw</STRONG>, saying that the third parameter
is a <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>, defined in <varargs.h>, and referring the reader to the
- manual pages for <EM>varargs</EM> and <EM>vprintf</EM> for detailed descriptions.
- (Because the SVr3 documentation does not mention <EM>vscanf</EM>, that reference
- to <EM>vprintf</EM> may not be an error).
+ manual pages for <EM>varargs</EM> and <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG> for detailed descriptions.
+ (Because the SVr3 documentation does not mention <STRONG>vscanf</STRONG>, that reference
+ to <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG> may not be an error).
SVr4 added no new variations of <STRONG>scanw</STRONG>, but provided for using
<varargs.h> or <stdarg.h> to define the <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> type.
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initialize the <STRONG>curses</STRONG> data structures about what the terminal currently
has on its screen. If the data is determined to be valid, <STRONG>curses</STRONG> bases
its next update of the screen on this information rather than clearing
- the screen and starting from scratch. <STRONG>scr_init</STRONG> is used after <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>
- or a <STRONG>system</STRONG> call to share the screen with another process which has
- done a <STRONG>scr_dump</STRONG> after its <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">endwin(3x)</A></STRONG> call. The data is declared in-
- valid
+ the screen and starting from scratch. <STRONG>scr_init</STRONG> is used after
+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">initscr(3x)</A></STRONG> or a <STRONG>system(3)</STRONG> call to share the screen with another
+ process which has done a <STRONG>scr_dump</STRONG> after its <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">endwin(3x)</A></STRONG> call. The data
+ is declared invalid
<STRONG>o</STRONG> if the terminfo capabilities <STRONG>rmcup</STRONG> and <STRONG>nrrmc</STRONG> exist, also
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If a given terminal does not support a video attribute that an
application program is trying to use, <STRONG>curses</STRONG> may substitute a different
video attribute for it. The <STRONG>termattrs</STRONG> and <STRONG>term_attrs</STRONG> functions return
- a logical <STRONG>OR</STRONG> of all video attributes supported by the terminal using <EM>A</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG>
- and <EM>WA</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> constants respectively. This information is useful when a
+ a logical <STRONG>OR</STRONG> of all video attributes supported by the terminal using <STRONG>A_</STRONG>
+ and <STRONG>WA_</STRONG> constants respectively. This information is useful when a
<STRONG>curses</STRONG> program needs complete control over the appearance of the
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<STRONG>o</STRONG> Because the capability may have padding characters, the output of
<STRONG>tgoto</STRONG> should be passed to <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> rather than some other output func-
- tion such as <STRONG>printf</STRONG>.
+ tion such as <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> While <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG> is assumed to be used for the two-parameter cursor po-
sitioning capability, termcap applications also use it for single-
was written several years before C was standardized. However, there
were two different termcap.h header files in the BSD sources:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> One was used internally by the <EM>jove</EM> editor in 2BSD through 4.4BSD.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> One was used internally by the <STRONG>jove</STRONG> editor in 2BSD through 4.4BSD.
It defined global symbols for the termcap variables which it used.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> The other appeared in 4.4BSD Lite Release 2 (mid-1993) as part of
that instance, it was <EM>libedit</EM> which differed from BSD termcap.
A copy of GNU termcap 1.3 was bundled with <EM>bash</EM> in mid-1993, to support
- the <EM>readline</EM> library.
+ the <STRONG>readline(3)</STRONG> library.
A termcap.h file was provided in ncurses 1.8.1 (November 1993). That
- reflected influence by <EM>emacs</EM> (rather than <EM>jove</EM>) and GNU termcap:
+ reflected influence by <STRONG>emacs(1)</STRONG> (rather than <STRONG>jove(1)</STRONG>) and GNU termcap:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> it provided declarations for a few global symbols used by <EM>emacs</EM>
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> it provided declarations for a few global symbols used by <STRONG>emacs</STRONG>
<STRONG>o</STRONG> it provided function prototypes (using <STRONG>const</STRONG>).
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<STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>pair</EM> of type <STRONG>short</STRONG> for the color-pair number.
The <STRONG>vid_attr</STRONG> and <STRONG>vid_puts</STRONG> routines are designed to use the attribute
- constants with the <EM>WA</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> prefix.
+ constants with the <STRONG>WA_</STRONG> prefix.
X/Open Curses reserves the <EM>opts</EM> argument for future use, saying that
applications must provide a null pointer for that argument. As an ex-
While <STRONG>putp</STRONG> and <STRONG>mvcur</STRONG> are low-level functions which do not use the high-
level curses state, they are declared in <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG> because SystemV did
- this (see <STRONG>HISTORY</STRONG>).
+ this (see <EM>HISTORY</EM>).
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Terminal-Capability-Functions">Terminal Capability Functions</a></H3><PRE>
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Compatibility-macros">Compatibility macros</a></H3><PRE>
This implementation provides a few macros for compatibility with sys-
- tems before SVr4 (see <STRONG>HISTORY</STRONG>). Those include <STRONG>crmode</STRONG>, <STRONG>fixterm</STRONG>,
+ tems before SVr4 (see <EM>HISTORY</EM>). Those include <STRONG>crmode</STRONG>, <STRONG>fixterm</STRONG>,
<STRONG>gettmode</STRONG>, <STRONG>nocrmode</STRONG>, <STRONG>resetterm</STRONG>, <STRONG>saveterm</STRONG>, and <STRONG>setterm</STRONG>.
In SVr4, those are found in <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>, but except for <STRONG>setterm</STRONG>, are
There are other low-level functions declared in the curses header files
on Unix systems, but none were documented. The functions marked "obso-
- lete" remained in use by the Unix <STRONG>vi</STRONG> editor.
+ lete" remained in use by the Unix <STRONG>vi(1)</STRONG> editor.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
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</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
This implementation can be configured to provide rudimentary support
for multi-threaded applications. This makes a different set of li-
- braries, e.g., <EM>libncursest</EM> since the binary interfaces are different.
+ braries, e.g., <STRONG>libncursest</STRONG> since the binary interfaces are different.
Rather than modify the interfaces to pass a thread specifier to each
function, it adds a few functions which can be used in any configura-
<STRONG>o</STRONG> global data, e.g., used in the low-level terminfo or termcap in-
terfaces.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> terminal data, e.g., associated with a call to <EM>set</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>curterm</EM>. The
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> terminal data, e.g., associated with a call to <STRONG>set_curterm</STRONG>. The
terminal data are initialized when screens are created.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> screen data, e.g., associated with a call to <EM>newterm</EM> or <EM>initscr</EM>.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> screen data, e.g., associated with a call to <STRONG>newterm</STRONG> or <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> window data, e.g., associated with a call to <EM>newwin</EM> or <EM>subwin</EM>.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> window data, e.g., associated with a call to <STRONG>newwin</STRONG> or <STRONG>subwin</STRONG>.
Windows are associated with screens. Pads are not necessarily
associated with a particular screen.
COLOR_PAIR reentrant
COLOR_PAIRS screen (readonly)
COLS screen (readonly)
- ESCDELAY screen (readonly, see <EM>set</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>escdelay</EM>)
+ ESCDELAY screen (readonly, see <STRONG>set_escdelay</STRONG>)
LINES screen (readonly)
PAIR_NUMBER reentrant
PC global
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tions apply:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Aside from <STRONG>curses_trace</STRONG>, the other functions are normally available
- only with the debugging library e.g., <EM>libncurses</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>g.a</EM>.
+ only with the debugging library e.g., <STRONG>libncurses_g.a</STRONG>.
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static, profile) by defining the symbol <STRONG>TRACE</STRONG>.
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The <STRONG>use_env</STRONG> and <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG> routines combine as summarized here:
- <EM>use</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>env</EM> <EM>use</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>tioctl</EM> <EM>Summary</EM>
+ <STRONG>use_env</STRONG> <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG> <STRONG>Summary</STRONG>
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TRUE FALSE This is the default behavior. <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG>
uses operating system calls unless over-
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-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-putwin_getwin
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+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-putwin_getwin
-file-format">putwin/getwin file-format</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>putwin</STRONG> and <STRONG>getwin</STRONG> functions have several issues with portability:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> The files written and read by these functions use an implementa-
<li><a href="#h3-filter">filter</a></li>
<li><a href="#h3-keyname">keyname</a></li>
<li><a href="#h3-nofilter_use_tioctl">nofilter/use_tioctl</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h3-putwin_getwin">putwin/getwin</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-putwin_getwin-file-format">putwin/getwin file-format</a></li>
<li><a href="#h3-unctrl_wunctrl">unctrl/wunctrl</a></li>
<li><a href="#h3-use_env_use_tioctl">use_env/use_tioctl</a></li>
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Associated with this extension, the <STRONG>init_pair</STRONG> function accepts negative
arguments to specify default foreground or background colors.
- The <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> function was added to support <EM>ded</EM>. This is a
+ The <STRONG>use_default_colors</STRONG> function was added to support <STRONG>ded</STRONG>. This is a
full-screen application which uses curses to manage only part of the
screen. The bottom portion of the screen, which is of adjustable size,
is left uncolored to display the results from shell commands. The top
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<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> and related pages whose names begin "form_" for detailed
descriptions of the entry points.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211021).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
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<STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211021).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
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This is an extension to the curses library. It permits an application
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<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> and related pages whose names begin "menu_" for detailed
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method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization.
This implementation is "new curses" (ncurses) and is the approved
replacement for 4.4BSD classic curses, which has been discontinued.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211021).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20211225).
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library emulates the curses library of System V Release 4
UNIX, and XPG4 (X/Open Portability Guide) curses (also known as XSI
curses). XSI stands for X/Open System Interfaces Extension. The
<STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library is freely redistributable in source form. Differences
- from the SVr4 curses are summarized under the <STRONG>EXTENSIONS</STRONG> and
- <STRONG>PORTABILITY</STRONG> sections below and described in detail in the respective
- <STRONG>EXTENSIONS</STRONG>, <STRONG>PORTABILITY</STRONG> and <STRONG>BUGS</STRONG> sections of individual man pages.
+ from the SVr4 curses are summarized under the <EM>EXTENSIONS</EM> and
+ <EM>PORTABILITY</EM> sections below and described in detail in the respective
+ <EM>EXTENSIONS</EM>, <EM>PORTABILITY</EM> and <EM>BUGS</EM> sections of individual man pages.
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library also provides many useful extensions, i.e.,
features which cannot be implemented by a simple add-on library but
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Initialization">Initialization</a></H3><PRE>
The library uses the locale which the calling program has initialized.
- That is normally done with <STRONG>setlocale</STRONG>:
+ That is normally done with <STRONG>setlocale(3)</STRONG>:
<STRONG>setlocale(LC_ALL,</STRONG> <STRONG>"");</STRONG>
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Routine-and-Argument-Names">Routine and Argument Names</a></H3><PRE>
Many <STRONG>curses</STRONG> routines have two or more versions. The routines prefixed
- with <STRONG>w</STRONG> require a window argument. The routines prefixed with <STRONG>p</STRONG> require
+ with <EM>w</EM> require a window argument. The routines prefixed with <EM>p</EM> require
a pad argument. Those without a prefix generally use <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG>.
The routines prefixed with <STRONG>mv</STRONG> require a <EM>y</EM> and <EM>x</EM> coordinate to move to
<STRONG>Ncurses</STRONG> may use tabs as part of the cursor movement optimization. In
some cases, your terminal driver may not handle these properly. Set
this environment variable to disable the feature. You can also adjust
- your <STRONG>stty</STRONG> settings to avoid the problem.
+ your <STRONG>stty(1)</STRONG> settings to avoid the problem.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE">NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE</a></H3><PRE>
Set the NCURSES_NO_PADDING environment variable to disable all but
mandatory padding. Mandatory padding is used as a part of special
- control sequences such as <EM>flash</EM>.
+ control sequences such as <STRONG>flash</STRONG>.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-NCURSES_NO_SETBUF">NCURSES_NO_SETBUF</a></H3><PRE>
If you set <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> in your environment, it has no effect on the operation
of the terminal emulator. It only affects the way applications work
- within the terminal. Likewise, as a general rule (<STRONG>xterm</STRONG> being a rare
- exception), terminal emulators which allow you to specify <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> as a
- parameter or configuration value do not change their behavior to match
- that setting.
+ within the terminal. Likewise, as a general rule (<STRONG>xterm(1)</STRONG> being a
+ rare exception), terminal emulators which allow you to specify <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> as
+ a parameter or configuration value do not change their behavior to
+ match that setting.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-TERMCAP">TERMCAP</a></H3><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a></H2><PRE>
- Zeyd M. Ben-Halim, Eric S. Raymond, Thomas E. Dickey. Based on pcurses
+ Zeyd M. Ben-Halim, Eric S. Raymond, Thomas E. Dickey. Based on <EM>pcurses</EM>
by Pavel Curtis.
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