ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100828

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

diff --git a/man/curs_attr.3x b/man/curs_attr.3x
index 31c5397dad1f68292e1c221b850e2b83bcbb9bb2..9e40018622c0dda2481f13b0e7969989736be913 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_attr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_attr.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2006 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 1.30 2006/07/15 18:39:05 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_attr.3x,v 1.34 2010/08/14 23:30:02 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
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ Older versions of this library did not force an update of the screen
 when changing the attributes.
 Use \fBtouchwin\fR to force the screen to match the updated attributes.
 .PP
+.ne 9
 .TS
 center ;
 l l .
@@ -252,7 +253,14 @@ 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),