ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170826

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

diff --git a/man/curs_inchstr.3x b/man/curs_inchstr.3x
index daeafe25956fd96b1f8070742102e22d6356d5a0..0f2a91343734fdf2a58945a460c6522265611608 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_inchstr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_inchstr.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2017 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            *
@@ -26,8 +26,15 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_inchstr.3x,v 1.13 2010/07/31 16:08:48 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_inchstr.3x,v 1.16 2017/04/29 21:31:17 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_inchstr 3X ""
+.ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
+.el       .ds `` ``
+.ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq
+.el       .ds '' ''
+.de bP
+.IP \(bu 4
+..
 .na
 .hy 0
 .SH NAME
@@ -74,10 +81,16 @@ All routines return the integer \fBERR\fR upon failure and an integer value
 other than \fBERR\fR upon successful completion (the number of characters
 retrieved, exclusive of the trailing 0).
 .PP
-No error conditions are defined.
-If the \fIchstr\fP parameter is null,
-no data is returned,
-and the return value is zero.
+X/Open Curses defines no error conditions.
+In this implementation:
+.bP
+If the \fIwin\fP parameter is null, an error is returned,
+.bP
+If the \fIchstr\fP parameter is null, an error is returned,
+.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
 Note that all routines except \fBwinchnstr\fR may be macros.  SVr4 does not
 document whether the result string is zero-terminated; it does not document
@@ -93,9 +106,3 @@ that the successful return of the functions is \fBOK\fR.
 Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) library are
 described in
 \fBcurs_in_wchstr\fR(3X).
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