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-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
.\" *
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-.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.24 2019/11/30 21:06:30 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_printw 3X ""
+.\" $Id: curs_printw.3x,v 1.38 2023/09/16 23:37:03 tom Exp $
+.TH curs_printw 3X 2023-09-16 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
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-.hy 0
.SH NAME
-\fBprintw\fR,
-\fBwprintw\fR,
-\fBmvprintw\fR,
-\fBmvwprintw\fR,
-\fBvwprintw\fR, \fBvw_printw\fR \- print formatted output in \fBcurses\fR windows
-.ad
-.hy
+\fB\%printw\fP,
+\fB\%wprintw\fP,
+\fB\%mvprintw\fP,
+\fB\%mvwprintw\fP,
+\fB\%vwprintw\fP,
+\fB\%vw_printw\fP \-
+write formatted output to \fIcurses\fR windows
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fB#include <curses.h>\fR
+\fB#include <curses.h>\fP
.sp
-\fBint printw(const char *fmt, ...);\fR
+\fBint printw(const char *\fIfmt\fB, ...);\fR
.br
-\fBint wprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, ...);\fR
+\fBint wprintw(WINDOW *\fIwin\fB, const char *\fIfmt\fB, ...);\fR
.br
-\fBint mvprintw(int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);\fR
+\fBint mvprintw(int \fIy\fB, int \fIx\fB, const char *\fIfmt\fB, ...);\fR
.br
-\fBint mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);\fR
+\fBint mvwprintw(WINDOW *\fIwin\fB, int \fIy\fB, int \fIx\fB, const char *\fIfmt\fB, ...);\fR
.br
-\fBint vw_printw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR
+\fBint vw_printw(WINDOW *\fIwin\fB, const char *\fIfmt\fB, va_list \fIvarglist\fB);\fR
.sp
/* obsolete */
.br
-\fBint vwprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR
+\fBint vwprintw(WINDOW *\fIwin\fB, const char *\fIfmt\fB, va_list \fIvarglist\fB);\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
-The \fBprintw\fR, \fBwprintw\fR, \fBmvprintw\fR and \fBmvwprintw\fR
-routines are analogous to \fBprintf\fR [see \fBprintf\fR(3)].
+The \fBprintw\fP, \fBwprintw\fP, \fBmvprintw\fP and \fBmvwprintw\fP
+routines are analogous to \fBprintf\fP [see \fBprintf\fP(3)].
In
-effect, the string that would be output by \fBprintf\fR is output
-instead as though \fBwaddstr\fR were used on the given window.
+effect, the string that would be output by \fBprintf\fP is output
+instead as though \fBwaddstr\fP were used on the given window.
.PP
-The \fBvwprintw\fR and \fBwv_printw\fR routines are analogous
-to \fBvprintf\fR [see \fBprintf\fR(3)]
-and perform a \fBwprintw\fR using a variable argument list.
-The third argument is a \fBva_list\fR, a pointer to a
-list of arguments, as defined in \fB<stdarg.h>\fR.
+The \fBvwprintw\fP and \fBvw_printw\fP routines are analogous
+to \fBvprintf\fP [see \fBprintf\fP(3)]
+and perform a \fBwprintw\fP using a variable argument list.
+The third argument is a \fBva_list\fP, a pointer to a
+list of arguments, as defined in \fB<stdarg.h>\fP.
.SH RETURN VALUE
-Routines that return an integer return \fBERR\fR upon failure and \fBOK\fR
-(SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than \fBERR\fR") upon successful
+Routines that return an integer return \fBERR\fP upon failure and \fBOK\fP
+(SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than \fBERR\fP") upon successful
completion.
.PP
X/Open defines no error conditions.
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 HISTORY
+While \fBprintw\fP was implemented in 4BSD,
+it was unused until 4.2BSD (which used it in games).
+That early version of curses was before the ANSI C standard.
+It did not use <varargs.h>, though that was available.
+In 1991 (a couple of years after SVr4 was generally available,
+and after the C standard was published),
+other developers updated the library,
+using <stdarg.h> internally in 4.4BSD curses.
+Even with this improvement,
+BSD curses did not use function prototypes (or even declare
+functions) in the <curses.h> header until 1992.
+.PP
+SVr2 documented
+\fBprintw\fP,
+\fBwprintw\fP
+tersely as \*(``printf on \fIstdscr\fP\*('' and
+tersely as \*(``printf on \fIwin\fP\*('', respectively.
+.PP
+SVr3 added
+\fBmvprintw\fP, and
+\fBmvwprintw\fP, with a three-line summary saying that they were analogous
+to \fBprintf\fP(3),
+explaining that the string which would be output from \fBprintf\fP(3) would
+instead be output using \fBwaddstr\fP on the given window.
+SVr3 also added \fBvwprintw\fP, saying that the third parameter
+is a \fBva_list\fP, defined in <varargs.h>,
+and referring the reader to the manual pages for \fIvarargs\fP and
+\fBvprintf\fP for detailed descriptions.
+.PP
+SVr4 added no new variations of \fBprintw\fP,
+but provided for using <varargs.h> or <stdarg.h> to define the \fBva_list\fP
+type.
+.PP
+X/Open Curses added \fBvw_printw\fP to replace \fBvwprintw\fP,
+stating that its \fBva_list\fP definition requires <stdarg.h>.
.SH PORTABILITY
In this implementation, \fBvw_printw\fP and \fBvwprintw\fP are equivalent,
to support legacy applications.
.bP
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 described these functions.
The function
-\fBvwprintw\fR is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function
-\fBvw_printw\fR using the \fB<stdarg.h>\fR interface.
+\fBvwprintw\fP is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function
+\fBvw_printw\fP using the \fB<stdarg.h>\fP interface.
.bP
The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that
-\fBvw_printw\fR is preferred to \fBvwprintw\fR since the latter requires
-including \fB<varargs.h>\fR, which
-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>.
+\fBvw_printw\fP is preferred to \fBvwprintw\fP since the latter requires
+including \fB<varargs.h>\fP, which
+cannot be used in the same file as \fB<stdarg.h>\fP.
+This implementation uses \fB<stdarg.h>\fP for both,
+because that header is included in \fB<curses.h\fP>.
.bP
X/Open Curses, Issue 5 (December 2007) marked \fBvwprintw\fP (along with
\fBvwscanw\fP and the termcap interface) as withdrawn.
.SH SEE ALSO
.na
-\fBcurses\fR(3X),
-\fBcurs_addstr\fR(3X),
-\fBcurs_scanw\fR(3X),
+\fBcurses\fP(3X),
+\fBcurs_addstr\fP(3X),
+\fBcurs_scanw\fP(3X),
\fBcurs_termcap\fP(3X),
-\fBprintf\fR(3),
-\fBvprintf\fR(3).
+\fBprintf\fP(3),
+\fBvprintf\fP(3).
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