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<esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
wrote many of the new features in versions after 1.8.1
and wrote most of this introduction.
-<A HREF="http://www.familiepfeifer.de/Contact.aspx?Lang=en">Jürgen Pfeifer</A>
+Jürgen Pfeifer
wrote all of the menu and forms code as well as the
<A HREF="http://www.adahome.com">Ada95</A> binding.
Ongoing work is being done by
-<A HREF="mailto:dickey@herndon4.his.com">Thomas Dickey</A>
-and
-<A HREF="http://www.familiepfeifer.de/Contact.aspx?Lang=en">Jürgen Pfeifer</A>.
-<A HREF="mailto:florian@gnu.org">Florian La Roche</A>
-acts as the maintainer for the Free Software Foundation, which holds the
-copyright on ncurses.
+<A HREF="mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net">Thomas Dickey</A> (maintainer).
Contact the current maintainers at
<A HREF="mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">bug-ncurses@gnu.org</A>.
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<li>xterm and similar programs such as rxvt.
<li>Linux console, when configured with <CODE>gpm</CODE>(1), Alessandro
Rubini's mouse server.
+<li>FreeBSD sysmouse (console)
<li>OS/2 EMX
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occurs a message is written to standard error and the program
exits. Otherwise it returns a pointer to stdscr. A few functions may be
called before initscr (<CODE>slk_init()</CODE>, <CODE>filter()</CODE>,
-<CODE>ripofflines()</CODE>, <CODE>use_env()</CODE>, and, if you are using multiple
+<CODE>ripoffline()</CODE>, <CODE>use_env()</CODE>, and, if you are using multiple
terminals, <CODE>newterm()</CODE>.)
<DT> <CODE>endwin()</CODE>
<DD> Your program should always call <CODE>endwin()</CODE> before exiting or
structures. <CODE>wrefresh()</CODE> copies the named window to the physical
terminal screen, taking into account what is already
there in order to do optimizations. <CODE>refresh()</CODE> does a
-refresh of <CODE>stdscr()</CODE>. Unless <CODE>leaveok()</CODE> has been
+refresh of <CODE>stdscr</CODE>. Unless <CODE>leaveok()</CODE> has been
enabled, the physical cursor of the terminal is left at the
location of the window's cursor.
<DT> <CODE>doupdate()</CODE> and <CODE>wnoutrefresh(win)</CODE>
The really clean way to handle this is to use the panels library. If,
when you want a screen update, you do <CODE>update_panels()</CODE>, it will
-do all the necessary <CODE>wnoutrfresh()</CODE> calls for whatever panel
+do all the necessary <CODE>wnoutrefresh()</CODE> calls for whatever panel
stacking order you have defined. Then you can do one <CODE>doupdate()</CODE>
and there will be a <EM>single</EM> burst of physical I/O that will do
all your updates.
<LI>Initialize <CODE>curses</CODE>.
<LI>Create the menu items, using <CODE>new_item()</CODE>.
<LI>Create the menu using <CODE>new_menu()</CODE>.
-<LI>Post the menu using <CODE>menu_post()</CODE>.
+<LI>Post the menu using <CODE>post_menu()</CODE>.
<LI>Refresh the screen.
<LI>Process user requests via an input loop.
-<LI>Unpost the menu using <CODE>menu_unpost()</CODE>.
+<LI>Unpost the menu using <CODE>unpost_menu()</CODE>.
<LI>Free the menu, using <CODE>free_menu()</CODE>.
<LI>Free the items using <CODE>free_item()</CODE>.
<LI>Terminate <CODE>curses</CODE>.
By default, both windows are <CODE>stdscr</CODE>. You can set them with the
functions in <CODE>menu_win(3x)</CODE>. <P>
-When you call <CODE>menu_post()</CODE>, you write the menu to its
-subwindow. When you call <CODE>menu_unpost()</CODE>, you erase the
+When you call <CODE>post_menu()</CODE>, you write the menu to its
+subwindow. When you call <CODE>unpost_menu()</CODE>, you erase the
subwindow, However, neither of these actually modifies the screen. To
do that, call <CODE>wrefresh()</CODE> or some equivalent.
<LI>Initialize <CODE>curses</CODE>.
<LI>Create the form fields, using <CODE>new_field()</CODE>.
<LI>Create the form using <CODE>new_form()</CODE>.
-<LI>Post the form using <CODE>form_post()</CODE>.
+<LI>Post the form using <CODE>post_form()</CODE>.
<LI>Refresh the screen.
<LI>Process user requests via an input loop.
-<LI>Unpost the form using <CODE>form_unpost()</CODE>.
+<LI>Unpost the form using <CODE>unpost_form()</CODE>.
<LI>Free the form, using <CODE>free_form()</CODE>.
<LI>Free the fields using <CODE>free_field()</CODE>.
<LI>Terminate <CODE>curses</CODE>.
greater). Note that these coordinates are relative to the form
subwindow, which will coincide with <CODE>stdscr</CODE> by default but
need not be <CODE>stdscr</CODE> if you've done an explicit
-<CODE>set_form_win
dow()</CODE> call. <P>
+<CODE>set_form_win()</CODE> call. <P>
The fifth argument allows you to specify a number of off-screen rows. If
this is zero, the entire field will always be displayed. If it is
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<DT> O_NL_OVERLOAD
<DD> Enable overloading of <CODE>REQ_NEW_LINE</CODE> as described in <A
-NAME="fedit">Editing Requests</A>. The value of this option is
+href="#fedit">Editing Requests</A>. The value of this option is
ignored on dynamic fields that have not reached their size limit;
these have no last line, so the circumstances for triggering a
<CODE>REQ_NEXT_FIELD</CODE> never arise.
<DT> O_BS_OVERLOAD
<DD> Enable overloading of <CODE>REQ_DEL_PREV</CODE> as described in
-<A NAME="fedit">Editing Requests</A>.
+<A href="#fedit">Editing Requests</A>.
</DL>
The option values are bit-masks and can be composed with logical-or in
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