ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100911

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

diff --git a/man/curs_getch.3x b/man/curs_getch.3x
index ce62ed17d8cb5237f986813f2ddf5a40bce548db..e03970d0fbc8d2d38e883c4b3491c9c862f09bac 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_getch.3x
+++ b/man/curs_getch.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2003,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2010 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_getch.3x,v 1.29 2005/06/25 22:03:09 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_getch.3x,v 1.32 2010/08/14 23:29:16 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_getch 3X ""
 .na
 .hy 0
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ specified timeout has been reached.
 Unless \fBnoecho\fR has been set,
 then the character will also be echoed into the
 designated window according to the following rules:
-If the character is the current erase character, left arrow, or backspace,
+if the character is the current erase character, left arrow, or backspace,
 the cursor is moved one space to the left and that screen position is erased
 as if \fBdelch\fR had been called.
 If the character value is any other \fBKEY_\fR define, the user is alerted
@@ -245,6 +245,10 @@ returns an error
 if the window pointer is null, or
 if its timeout expires without having any data.
 .RE
+.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 NOTES
 Use of the escape key by a programmer for a single character function is
 discouraged, as it will cause a delay of up to one second while the
@@ -316,6 +320,10 @@ any code using it be conditionalized on the \fBNCURSES_VERSION\fR feature macro.
 \fBcurs_move\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_refresh\fR(3X),
 \fBresizeterm\fR(3X).
+.PP
+Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) library are
+described in
+\fBcurs_get_wch\fR(3X).
 .\"#
 .\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS
 .\"# Local Variables: