ncurses 6.0 - patch 20161029

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

diff --git a/man/curs_clear.3x b/man/curs_clear.3x
index fa7723af4fe8a00e8ca69a6805f33837ca04544e..dec519b4853de9a93ebf65b3ef307bb4aa0a16d1 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_clear.3x
+++ b/man/curs_clear.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"***************************************************************************

-.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2016 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            *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" 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.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"

-.\" $Id: curs_clear.3x,v 1.10 2005/10/01 19:34:43 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_clear.3x,v 1.15 2016/10/15 17:02:31 tom Exp $

 .TH curs_clear 3X ""
 .na
 .hy 0
 .TH curs_clear 3X ""
 .na
 .hy 0


@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 \fBclrtobot\fR,
 \fBwclrtobot\fR,
 \fBclrtoeol\fR,
 \fBclrtobot\fR,
 \fBwclrtobot\fR,
 \fBclrtoeol\fR,

-\fBwclrtoeol\fR - clear all or part of a \fBcurses\fR window
+\fBwclrtoeol\fR \- clear all or part of a \fBcurses\fR window

 .ad
 .hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .ad
 .hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS


@@ -101,15 +101,18 @@ ncurses.
 .PP
 This implementation, and others such as Solaris,
 sets the current position to 0,0 after erasing
 .PP
 This implementation, and others such as Solaris,
 sets the current position to 0,0 after erasing

-via \fBwerase()\fP and \fBwclear()\fP.
+via \fBwerase\fP and \fBwclear\fP.

 That fact is not documented in other implementations,
 and may not be true of implementations
 which were not derived from SVr4 source.
 That fact is not documented in other implementations,
 and may not be true of implementations
 which were not derived from SVr4 source.

+.PP
+Not obvious from the description,
+most implementations clear the screen after \fBwclear\fP
+even for a subwindow or derived window.
+If you do not want to clear the screen during the next \fBwrefresh\fP,
+use \fBwerase\fP instead.

 .SH SEE ALSO
 .SH SEE ALSO

-\fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBcurs_outopts\fR(3X), \fBcurs_refresh\fR(3X)
-.\"#
-.\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS
-.\"# Local Variables:
-.\"# mode:nroff
-.\"# fill-column:79
-.\"# End:
+\fBcurses\fR(3X),
+\fBcurs_outopts\fR(3X),
+\fBcurs_refresh\fR(3X),
+\fBcurs_variables\fR(3X)