ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210619

[ncurses.git] / man / terminfo.head

diff --git a/man/terminfo.head b/man/terminfo.head
index 7418a3584df44280edf9b6037f8f68a479a73833..398f498a4ecf792c9db82b5eade0c8b5d71c5817 100644 (file)
--- a/man/terminfo.head
+++ b/man/terminfo.head
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 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            *
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.34 2018/05/19 20:57:27 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.40 2021/06/17 21:30:22 tom Exp $
 .TH terminfo 5 "" "" "File Formats"
 .ds n 5
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
@@ -49,7 +50,8 @@
 .de NE
 .fi
 .ft R
-.in -4
+.ie n  .in -4
+.el    .in -2
 ..
 .SH NAME
 terminfo \- terminal capability data base
@@ -57,16 +59,23 @@ terminfo \- terminal capability data base
 \*d/*/*
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Terminfo
-is a data base describing terminals, used by screen-oriented programs such as
+is a data base describing terminals,
+used by screen-oriented programs such as
 \fBnvi\fR(1),
-\fBrogue\fR(1)
-and libraries such as
-\fBcurses\fR(3X).
+\fBlynx\fR(1),
+\fBmutt\fR(1),
+and other curses applications,
+using high-level calls to libraries such as \fBcurses\fR(3X).
+It is also used via low-level calls by non-curses applications
+which may be screen-oriented (such as \fB@CLEAR@\fP(1))
+or non-screen (such as \fB@TABS@\fP(1)).
+.PP
 .I Terminfo
 describes terminals by giving a set of capabilities which they
 have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by
 specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences.
-This describes \fBncurses\fR
+.PP
+This manual describes \fBncurses\fR
 version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
 .SS Terminfo Entry Syntax
 .PP
@@ -74,7 +83,7 @@ Entries in
 .I terminfo
 consist of a sequence of fields:
 .bP
-Each field ends with a comma \*(``,\*('' 
+Each field ends with a comma \*(``,\*(''
 (embedded commas may be
 escaped with a backslash or written as \*(``\\054\*('').
 .bP
@@ -123,7 +132,7 @@ have a root name, thus \*(``hp2621\*(''.
 This name should not contain hyphens.
 Modes that the hardware can be in, or user preferences, should
 be indicated by appending a hyphen and a mode suffix.
-Thus, a vt100 in 132 column mode would be vt100\-w.
+Thus, a vt100 in 132-column mode would be vt100\-w.
 The following suffixes should be used where possible:
 .PP
 .TS