ncurses 6.5 - patch 20240519

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_scanw.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_scanw.3x b/man/curs_scanw.3x
index cf1977acb67dd6edf0987a3526b72a81031ae62b..409c297fb233ad58c34a5b270453a4806ae26fe0 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_scanw.3x
+++ b/man/curs_scanw.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
 .\" Copyright 1998-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.47 2023/12/23 14:41:50 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_scanw 3X 2023-12-23 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
+.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.53 2024/04/20 19:18:18 tom Exp $
+.TH curs_scanw 3X 2024-04-20 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "Library calls"
 .ie \n(.g \{\
 .ds `` \(lq
 .ds '' \(rq
@@ -97,16 +97,18 @@ upon failure and otherwise a count of successful conversions;
 this quantity may be zero.
 .PP
 In
-.I \%ncurses,
+.IR \%ncurses ,
 failure occurs if \fI\%vsscanf\fP(3) returns
 \fBEOF\fP,
 or if the window pointer
 .I win
 is null.
 .PP
-Functions with a \*(``mv\*('' prefix first perform a cursor movement
-using \fB\%wmove\fP,
-and fail if the position is outside the window.
+Functions prefixed with \*(``mv\*('' first perform cursor movement and
+fail if the position
+.RI ( y ,
+.IR x )
+is outside the window boundaries.
 .SH NOTES
 No wide character counterpart functions are defined by the
 \*(``wide\*(''
@@ -124,7 +126,8 @@ respectively.
 implements \fI\%vsscanf\fP(3) internally if it is unavailable when the
 library is configured.
 .SH PORTABILITY
-X/Open Curses, Issue 4, describes these functions.
+X/Open Curses,
+Issue 4 describes these functions.
 It specifies no error conditions for them.
 .PP
 .I \%ncurses
@@ -133,13 +136,15 @@ legacy applications.
 However,
 the latter is obsolete.
 .bP
-X/Open Curses, Issue 4, Version 2 (1996),
+X/Open Curses,
+Issue 4 Version 2 (1996),
 marked \fB\%vwscanw\fP as requiring \fI\%varargs.h\fP and
 \*(``TO BE WITHDRAWN\*('',
 and specified \fB\%vw_scanw\fP using the \fI\%stdarg.h\fP interface.
 .bP
-X/Open Curses, Issue 5, Draft 2
-(December 2007) marked \fB\%vwscanw\fP (along with
+X/Open Curses,
+Issue 5,
+Draft 2 (December 2007) marked \fB\%vwscanw\fP (along with
 \fB\%vwscanw\fP and the \fItermcap\fP interface) as withdrawn.
 After incorporating review comments,
 this became
@@ -162,7 +167,7 @@ this may have been an editorial solecism introduced by X/Open,
 rather than an intentional change.
 .bP
 This implementation retains compatibility with SVr4
-.I curses.
+.IR curses .
 As of 2018,
 NetBSD
 .I curses
@@ -202,7 +207,7 @@ In 1991
 and after the C standard was published),
 other developers updated the library,
 using \fI\%stdarg.h\fP internally in 4.4BSD
-.I curses.
+.IR curses .
 Even with this improvement,
 BSD
 .I curses