ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190928

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

diff --git a/man/curs_bkgd.3x b/man/curs_bkgd.3x
index d93bbd4a995e1b5e197033f2c6814db266e68d4c..c973b98ae6e72910540c3e91ef9a84e3a8b88e54 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_bkgd.3x
+++ b/man/curs_bkgd.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 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            *
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_bkgd.3x,v 1.28 2018/12/09 00:45:05 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_bkgd.3x,v 1.29 2019/07/13 21:01:06 tom Exp $
 .de bP
 .ie n  .IP \(bu 4
 .el    .IP \(bu 2
@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ and that does not match the color in the current background,
 the library updates only the non-color attributes,
 first removing those which may have come from the current background,
 and then adding attributes from the new background.
+.PP
+If the background's character value is zero, a space is assumed.
+.PP
+If the terminal does not support color,
+or if color has not been started with \fBstart_color\fP,
+the new background character's color attribute will be ignored.
 .SS getbkgd
 .PP
 The \fBgetbkgd\fR function returns the given window's current background