X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fterm.7;h=e3be223b0424cb3ddeb82912067f4fa35f24e16f;hb=refs%2Ftags%2Fv5.5;hp=e8f81bb6f0d734ee6f431d050651251a130e4ff9;hpb=0eb88fc5281804773e2a0c7a488a4452463535ce;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/man/term.7 b/man/term.7 index e8f81bb6..e3be223b 100644 --- a/man/term.7 +++ b/man/term.7 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2003 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 * @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.11 1999/01/24 02:35:14 Todd.Miller Exp $ +.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.14 2003/05/10 20:33:49 jmc Exp $ .TH TERM 7 .ds n 5 -.ds d @DATADIR@/terminfo +.ds d @TERMINFO@ .SH NAME term \- conventions for naming terminal types .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ terminals that also explains how to parse them: First, choose a root name. The root will consist of a lower-case letter followed by up to seven lower-case letters or digits. You need to avoid using punctuation characters in root names, because they are used and interpreted as -filenames and shell meta-characters (such as !, $, *, ? etc.) embedded in them +filenames and shell meta-characters (such as !, $, *, ?, etc.) embedded in them may cause odd and unhelpful behavior. The slash (/), or any other character that may be interpreted by anyone's file system (\e, $, [, ]), is especially dangerous (terminfo is platform-independent, and choosing names with special @@ -136,29 +136,29 @@ with another that has this suffix and uses magic cookies to support multiple attributes. .TP 5 -am -Enable auto-margin (right-margin wraparound) +Enable auto-margin (right-margin wraparound). .TP 5 -m -Mono mode - suppress color support +Mono mode - suppress color support. .TP 5 -na No arrow keys - termcap ignores arrow keys which are actually there on the terminal, so the user can use the arrow keys locally. .TP 5 -nam -No auto-margin - suppress am capability +No auto-margin - suppress am capability. .TP 5 -nl -No labels - suppress soft labels +No labels - suppress soft labels. .TP 5 -nsl -No status line - suppress status line +No status line - suppress status line. .TP 5 -pp Has a printer port which is used. .TP 5 -rv -Terminal in reverse video mode (black on white) +Terminal in reverse video mode (black on white). .TP 5 -s Enable status line. @@ -190,11 +190,11 @@ should be unique within the first 14 characters. compiled terminal capability data base .TP 5 /etc/inittab -tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes). +tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes) .TP 5 /etc/ttys -tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes). -.SH "SEE ALSO" +tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes) +.SH SEE ALSO \fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBterminfo\fR(\*n), \fBterm\fR(\*n). .\"# .\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS