ncurses 5.7 - patch 20110115

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

diff --git a/man/curs_attr.3x b/man/curs_attr.3x
index 4374bf27b7c896bac84cde5746630bed608dad7b..67740f9e2a72c4564296394b07e81102601cf7d8 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_attr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_attr.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 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            *
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_attr.3x,v 1.32 2009/09/19 20:12:30 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_attr.3x,v 1.36 2010/12/04 18:36:44 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_attr 3X ""
 .na
 .hy 0
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 \fBwchgat\fR,
 \fBmvchgat\fR,
 \fBmvwchgat\fR,
-\fBPAIR_NUMBER\fR - \fBcurses\fR character and window attribute control routines
+\fBPAIR_NUMBER\fR \- \fBcurses\fR character and window attribute control routines
 .ad
 .hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ rather than \fBint\fR.
 .PP
 The routine \fBchgat\fR changes the attributes of a given number of characters
 starting at the current cursor location of \fBstdscr\fR.  It does not update
-the cursor and does not perform wrapping.  A character count of -1 or greater
+the cursor and does not perform wrapping.  A character count of \-1 or greater
 than the remaining window width means to change attributes all the way to the
 end of the current line.  The \fBwchgat\fR function generalizes this to any
 window; the \fBmvwchgat\fR function does a cursor move before acting.  In these
@@ -253,19 +253,18 @@ X/Open does not define any error conditions.
 This implementation returns an error
 if the window pointer is null.
 The \fBwcolor_set\fP function returns an error if the color pair parameter
-is outside the range 0..COLOR_PAIRS-1.
+is outside the range 0..COLOR_PAIRS\-1.
 This implementation also provides
 \fBgetattrs\fR
 for compatibility with older versions of curses.
+.PP
+Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
+\fBwmove\fP, and return an error if the position is outside the window,
+or if the window pointer is null.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fBcurses\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_addch\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_addstr\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_bkgd\fR(3X),
-\fBcurs_printw\fR(3X)
-.\"#
-.\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS
-.\"# Local Variables:
-.\"# mode:nroff
-.\"# fill-column:79
-.\"# End:
+\fBcurs_printw\fR(3X),
+\fBcurs_variables\fR(3X)