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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
- These routines insert a character string (as many charac-
- ters as will fit on the line) before the character under
+ These routines insert a character string (as many charac-
+ ters as will fit on the line) before the character under
the cursor. All characters to the right of the cursor are
- shifted right with the possibility of the rightmost char-
- acters on the line being lost. The cursor position does
- not change (after moving to <EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>, if specified). The
- functions with <EM>n</EM> as the last argument insert a leading
- substring of at most <EM>n</EM> characters. If <EM>n</EM><=0, then the
+ shifted right with the possibility of the rightmost char-
+ acters on the line being lost. The cursor position does
+ not change (after moving to <EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>, if specified). The
+ functions with <EM>n</EM> as the last argument insert a leading
+ substring of at most <EM>n</EM> characters. If <EM>n</EM><=0, then the
entire string is inserted.
Special characters are handled as in <STRONG>addch</STRONG>.
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<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
- All routines that return an integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon fail-
- ure and OK (SVr4 specifies only "an integer value other
- than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion, unless otherwise
+ All routines that return an integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon fail-
+ ure and OK (SVr4 specifies only "an integer value other
+ than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion, unless otherwise
noted in the preceding routine descriptions.
- X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
+ X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
tion, if the window parameter is null or the str parameter
is null, an error is returned.
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<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
- These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard,
+ These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard,
Issue 4, which adds const qualifiers to the arguments.
- The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that
- <STRONG>insnstr</STRONG> and <STRONG>winsnstr</STRONG> perform wrapping. This is probably
+ 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 inconsis-
- tent. Also, no implementation of curses documents this
+ tent. Also, no implementation of curses documents this
inconsistency.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>,
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_util.3x.html">curs_util(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inch.3x.html">curs_inch(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_util.3x.html">curs_util(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inch.3x.html">curs_inch(3x)</A></STRONG>.
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