ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070612

[ncurses.git] / man / terminfo.head

diff --git a/man/terminfo.head b/man/terminfo.head
index 36945ff2502b22ba9537e57dbab47c3cb58b7132..7455675ab953cd7d661320e62ec65c74a828b97a 100644 (file)
--- a/man/terminfo.head
+++ b/man/terminfo.head
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                        *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2004,2006 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 +26,8 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.9 2000/08/13 01:56:40 tom Exp $
-.TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats"
+.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.16 2007/03/04 00:09:46 tom Exp $
+.TH terminfo 5 "" "" "File Formats"
 .ds n 5
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
 .SH NAME
@@ -45,11 +45,13 @@ and libraries such as
 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
+version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
 .PP
 Entries in
 .I terminfo
 consist of a sequence of `,' separated fields (embedded commas may be
-escaped with a  backslash or notated as \e072).
+escaped with a backslash or notated as \\054).
 White space after the `,' separator is ignored.
 The first entry for each terminal gives the names which are known for the
 terminal, separated by `|' characters.
@@ -59,6 +61,16 @@ and all others are understood as synonyms for the terminal name.
 All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks;
 the last name may well contain upper case and blanks for readability.
 .PP
+Lines beginning with a `#' in the first column are treated as comments.
+While comment lines are legal at any point, the output of \fB@CAPTOINFO@\fP
+and \fB@INFOTOCAP@\fP (aliases for \fB@TIC@\fP)
+will move comments so they occur only between entries.
+.PP
+Newlines and leading tabs may be used for formatting entries for readability.
+These are removed from parsed entries.
+The \fB@INFOCMP@\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions:
+the result can be read by \fB@TIC@\fP.
+.PP
 Terminal names (except for the last, verbose entry) should
 be chosen using the following conventions.
 The particular piece of hardware making up the terminal should