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<H1 class="no-header">curs_delch 3x</H1>
These routines delete the character under the cursor; all characters to
the right of the cursor on the same line are moved to the left one
position and the last character on the line is filled with a blank.
- The cursor position does not change (after moving to <EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>, if speci-
- fied). (This does not imply use of the hardware delete character fea-
- ture.)
+ The cursor position does not change (after moving to <EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>, if
+ specified). (This does not imply use of the hardware delete character
+ feature.)
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
- All routines return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and an <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 speci-
- fies only "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful comple-
- tion.
+ All routines return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and an <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4
+ specifies only "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful
+ completion.
Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
<STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the position is outside the window, or if