ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100220

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

diff --git a/man/ncurses.3x b/man/ncurses.3x
index 703a239abfdeff19543fceec8485053326dbffa2..651531b0a63856c89f92c6529d372382cc90551f 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ncurses.3x
+++ b/man/ncurses.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 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            *
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: ncurses.3x,v 1.92 2008/10/25 23:31:45 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: ncurses.3x,v 1.94 2010/01/09 16:34:57 tom Exp $
 .hy 0
 .TH ncurses 3X ""
 .ds n 5
@@ -756,6 +756,10 @@ When set, change occurrences of the command_character
 (i.e., the \fBcmdch\fP capability)
 of the loaded terminfo entries to the value of this symbol.
 Very few terminfo entries provide this feature.
+.IP
+Because this name is also used in development environments to represent
+the C compiler's name, \fBncurses\fR ignores it if it does not happen to
+be a single character.
 .TP 5
 COLUMNS
 Specify the width of the screen in characters.
@@ -922,7 +926,7 @@ and is likely to work for terminal emulators.
 .IP
 When setting this variable, you should set it to a nonzero value.
 Setting it to zero (or to a nonnumber)
-disables the special check for Linux and screen.
+disables the special check for "linux" and "screen".
 .TP 5
 NCURSES_TRACE
 During initialization, the \fBncurses\fR debugging library