ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100918

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

diff --git a/man/curs_insch.3x b/man/curs_insch.3x
index 5c3c3410465eb0ec1dda13ab3ebe1aec40b4b6bb..bc2aeb475a35dafea7dd52c12711129e7070d682 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_insch.3x
+++ b/man/curs_insch.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998 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            *
@@ -26,14 +26,16 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_insch.3x,v 1.6 1998/03/11 21:12:53 juergen Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_insch.3x,v 1.12 2010/08/14 23:29:16 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_insch 3X ""
 .SH NAME
-\fBinsch\fR, \fBwinsch\fR, \fBmvinsch\fR, \fBmvwinsch\fR -
-insert a character before cursor in a \fBcurses\fR window
+\fBinsch\fR,
+\fBwinsch\fR,
+\fBmvinsch\fR,
+\fBmvwinsch\fR \- insert a character before cursor in a \fBcurses\fR window
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
-
+.sp
 \fBint insch(chtype ch);\fR
 .br
 \fBint winsch(WINDOW *win, chtype ch);\fR
@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ insert a character before cursor in a \fBcurses\fR window
 \fBint mvwinsch(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, chtype ch);\fR
 .br
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-These routines, insert the character \fIch\fR before the character under the
+These routines insert the character \fIch\fR before the character under the
 cursor.  All characters to the right of the cursor are moved one space to the
 right, with the possibility of the rightmost character on the line being lost.
 The insertion operation does not change the cursor position.
@@ -51,15 +53,23 @@ The insertion operation does not change the cursor position.
 All routines that return an integer return \fBERR\fR upon failure and OK (SVr4
 specifies only "an integer value other than \fBERR\fR") upon successful
 completion, unless otherwise noted in the preceding routine descriptions.
+.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
 These routines do not necessarily imply use of a hardware insert character
 feature.
-
+.PP
 Note that \fBinsch\fR, \fBmvinsch\fR, and \fBmvwinsch\fR may be macros.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fBcurses\fR(3X).
+.PP
+Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) library are
+described in
+\fBcurs_ins_wch\fR(3X).
 .\"#
 .\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS
 .\"# Local Variables: