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-<H1 class="no-header">curs_insstr 3x 2024-04-20 ncurses 6.5 Library calls</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_insstr.3x.html">curs_insstr(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_insstr.3x.html">curs_insstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
All functions return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> on success.
X/Open Curses does not specify any error conditions. This
- implementation returns an error
+ implementation returns <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>
<STRONG>o</STRONG> if the <EM>win</EM> parameter is null or
<STRONG>o</STRONG> if the <EM>str</EM> parameter is null or
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> the <STRONG><A HREF="curs_insch.3x.html">winsch(3x)</A></STRONG> function returns an error.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> the <STRONG><A HREF="curs_insch.3x.html">winsch(3x)</A></STRONG> function returns <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>.
Functions prefixed with "mv" first perform cursor movement and fail if
the position (<EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>) is outside the window boundaries.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- These functions are described in X/Open Curses, Issue 4, which adds
- <EM>const</EM> qualifiers to the arguments.
+ X/Open Curses, Issue 4 describes these functions. It specifies no
+ error conditions for them.
- The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that <STRONG>insnstr</STRONG> and
- <STRONG>winsnstr</STRONG> perform wrapping. This is probably an error, since it makes
- this group of functions inconsistent. Also, no implementation of
- curses documents this inconsistency.
+ Issue 4 distinguished <STRONG>insnstr</STRONG> and <STRONG>winsnstr</STRONG> by stating they "do not
+ perform wrapping". This was probably an error, since it makes this
+ group of functions inconsistent. No implementation of <EM>curses</EM> documents
+ this inconsistency, and Issue 7 removed it.
- X/Open states that the entire string is inserted if <EM>n</EM> is less than 1.
+ Issue 4 states that the entire string is inserted if <EM>n</EM> is less than 1.
This is probably an error, because it is inconsistent with other
- functions, and differs from the SVr4 and X/Open implementations on
- Solaris.
+ functions, and differs from the SVr4 <EM>curses</EM> and Solaris <EM>xcurses</EM>
+ implementations. Nevertheless, Issue 7 retains it.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_ins_wstr.3x.html">curs_ins_wstr(3x)</A></STRONG> describes comparable functions of the <EM>ncurses</EM> library
+ in its wide-character configuration (<EM>ncursesw</EM>).
+
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inch.3x.html">curs_inch(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_ins_wstr.3x.html">curs_ins_wstr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_util.3x.html">curs_util(3x)</A></STRONG>
-ncurses 6.5 2024-0
4-20 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_insstr.3x.html">curs_insstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.5 2024-0
6-08 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_insstr.3x.html">curs_insstr(3x)</A></STRONG>
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