ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210619

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

diff --git a/man/curs_window.3x b/man/curs_window.3x
index ba9d293e711589f85e3ff9289b15b3258efacead..e5ea2aaf08db4ff1e688391c90b8b18387350d94 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_window.3x
+++ b/man/curs_window.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2014,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey                                     *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2015,2016 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 +27,12 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_window.3x,v 1.19 2015/07/21 08:25:23 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_window.3x,v 1.23 2021/06/17 21:11:08 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_window 3X ""
+.de bP
+.ie n  .IP \(bu 4
+.el    .IP \(bu 2
+..
 .na
 .hy 0
 .SH NAME
@@ -96,6 +101,29 @@ If either
 .RE
 .PP
 A new full-screen window is created by calling \fBnewwin(0,0,0,0)\fR.
+.PP
+Regardless of the function used for creating a new window
+(e.g., \fBnewwin\fP, \fBsubwin\fP, \fBderwin\fP, \fBnewpad\fP),
+rather than a duplicate (with \fBdupwin\fP),
+all of the window modes are initialized to the default values.
+These functions set window modes after a window is created:
+.RS
+.na
+.PP
+idcok,
+idlok,
+immedok,
+keypad,
+leaveok,
+nodelay,
+scrollok,
+setscrreg,
+syncok,
+wbkgdset,
+wbkgrndset, and
+wtimeout
+.RE
+.ad
 .SS delwin
 .PP
 Calling \fBdelwin\fR deletes the named window, freeing all memory
@@ -215,7 +243,7 @@ degrade performance.
 .PP
 Note that \fBsyncok\fR may be a macro.
 .SH BUGS
-The subwindow functions (\fIsubwin\fR, \fIderwin\fR, \fImvderwin\fR,
+The subwindow functions (\fBsubwin\fR, \fBderwin\fR, \fBmvderwin\fR,
 \fBwsyncup\fR, \fBwsyncdown\fR, \fBwcursyncup\fR, \fBsyncok\fR) are flaky,
 incompletely implemented, and not well tested.
 .PP