ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170826

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

diff --git a/man/curs_printw.3x b/man/curs_printw.3x
index a1ec5558194e720b7e941247215fd7522e100a41..07885ba9966ccc9bbe3a3691bf8ea1a937592440 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_printw.3x
+++ b/man/curs_printw.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            *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" 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_printw.3x,v 1.18 2010/07/31 16:10:55 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.21 2017/01/07 17:33:45 tom Exp $

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


@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ In this implementation,
 an error may be returned if it cannot allocate enough memory for the
 buffer used to format the results.
 It will return an error if the window pointer is null.
 an error may be returned if it cannot allocate enough memory for the
 buffer used to format the results.
 It will return an error if the window pointer is null.

+.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 PORTABILITY
 The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.  The function
 \fBvwprintw\fR is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function
 .SH PORTABILITY
 The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.  The function
 \fBvwprintw\fR is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function


@@ -85,10 +89,4 @@ cannot be used in the same file as \fB<stdarg.h>\fR.
 This implementation uses \fB<stdarg.h>\fR for both, because that header
 is included in \fB<curses.h\fR>.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 This implementation uses \fB<stdarg.h>\fR for both, because that header
 is included in \fB<curses.h\fR>.
 .SH SEE ALSO

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