ncurses 6.0 - patch 20150822

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

diff --git a/man/curs_variables.3x b/man/curs_variables.3x
index efbe192a48820a5a6ee6fc9fb1b3289e196b4e1b..1bd0f335e3d328ddf54242b3cdb180ae5cd04627 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_variables.3x
+++ b/man/curs_variables.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"***************************************************************************

-.\" Copyright (c) 2010,2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
+.\" Copyright (c) 2010-2013,2015 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            *
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 .\" 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.                                                           *
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 .\" authorization.                                                           *
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-.\" $Id: curs_variables.3x,v 1.6 2013/12/21 18:41:32 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_variables.3x,v 1.8 2015/08/22 23:33:22 tom Exp $

 .TH curs_variables 3X ""
 .de bP
 .IP \(bu 4
 .TH curs_variables 3X ""
 .de bP
 .IP \(bu 4


@@ -127,6 +127,20 @@ most of these variables reside in the curses library.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 ESCDELAY and TABSIZE are extensions,
 not provided in most other implementations of curses.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 ESCDELAY and TABSIZE are extensions,
 not provided in most other implementations of curses.

+.PP
+ESCDELAY is an extension in AIX curses:
+.bP
+In AIX, the units for ESCDELAY are \fIfifths\fP of a millisecond.
+.bP
+The default value for AIX's ESCDELAY is 0.1 seconds.
+.bP
+AIX also enforces a limit of 10,000 seconds for ESCDELAY;
+this implementation currently has no upper limit.
+.PP
+This implementation has long used ESCDELAY with units of milliseconds,
+making it impossible to be completely compatible with AIX.
+Likewise, most users have either decided to override the value,
+or rely upon its default value.

 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fBcurses\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_opaque\fR(3X),
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fBcurses\fR(3X),
 \fBcurs_opaque\fR(3X),