ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111217

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

diff --git a/man/curs_bkgd.3x b/man/curs_bkgd.3x
index f5c620db55cf065cf052257305a0e48b0626427a..67e2ab8fc54a06f60d6ebda3f7b79721a4602c56 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_bkgd.3x
+++ b/man/curs_bkgd.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2003,2010 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            *
@@ -26,16 +26,15 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_bkgd.3x,v 1.18 2002/09/21 19:46:26 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_bkgd.3x,v 1.22 2010/12/04 18:36:44 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_bkgd 3X ""
 .SH NAME
 \fBbkgdset\fR, \fBwbkgdset\fR,
 \fBbkgd\fR, \fBwbkgd\fR,
-\fBgetbkgd\fR - \fBcurses\fR window background manipulation routines
-
+\fBgetbkgd\fR \- \fBcurses\fR window background manipulation routines
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
-
+.PP
 \fBvoid bkgdset(chtype ch);\fR
 .br
 \fBvoid wbkgdset(WINDOW *win, chtype ch);\fR
@@ -57,23 +56,23 @@ the character and attribute parts of the background are combined with
 the blank characters.  The background becomes a property of the
 character and moves with the character through any scrolling and
 insert/delete line/character operations.
-
+.PP
 To the extent possible on a particular terminal,
 the attribute part of the background is displayed
 as the graphic rendition of the character put on the screen.
-
+.PP
 The \fBbkgd\fR and \fBwbkgd\fR functions
 set the background property of the current or specified window
 and then apply this setting to every character position in that window:
-
+.PP
 .RS
 The rendition of every character on the screen is changed to
 the new background rendition.
-
+.PP
 Wherever the former background character
 appears, it is changed to the new background character.
 .RE
-
+.PP
 The \fBgetbkgd\fR function returns the given window's current background
 character/attribute pair.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
@@ -84,16 +83,10 @@ but this appears to be an error.
 Note that \fBbkgdset\fR and \fBbkgd\fR may be macros.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.
-It specifies that \fBbkgd\fR and \fBwbkgd\fR return \fBERR\fR on failure.
+It specifies that \fBbkgd\fR and \fBwbkgd\fR return \fBERR\fR on failure,
 but gives no failure conditions.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fBcurses\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_addch\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_attr\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_outopts\fR(3X)
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