ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210306

[ncurses.git] / man / tput.1

diff --git a/man/tput.1 b/man/tput.1
index bc2acaabb2d3d69438edaf45f140d65ae6365a20..8e4a565842c403939dd104018cae08b112d0c232 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tput.1
+++ b/man/tput.1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                     *
+.\" 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  *
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: tput.1,v 1.63 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tput.1,v 1.66 2021/03/06 15:56:23 tom Exp $
 .TH @TPUT@ 1 ""
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
 .ds n 1
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ named \fBinit\fP has a more well-established use.
 .PP
 Besides the special commands (e.g., \fBclear\fP),
 @TPUT@ treats certain terminfo capabilities specially:
-\fBlines\fP and \fBcolumns\fP.
+\fBlines\fP and \fBcols\fP.
 @TPUT@ calls \fBsetupterm\fP(3X) to obtain the terminal size:
 .bP
 first, it gets the size from the terminal database
@@ -547,6 +547,9 @@ A few platforms such as FreeBSD recognize termcap names rather
 than terminfo capability names in their respective \fBtput\fP commands.
 Since 2010, NetBSD's \fBtput\fP uses terminfo names.
 Before that, it (like FreeBSD) recognized termcap names.
+.IP
+Beginning in 2021, FreeBSD uses the ncurses \fBtput\fP,
+configured for both terminfo (tested first) and termcap (as a fallback).
 .PP
 Because (apparently) \fIall\fP of the certified Unix systems
 support the full set of capability names, the reasoning for documenting
@@ -590,8 +593,8 @@ to either ncurses or X/Open.
 \fBstty\fR(1),
 \fB@TABS@\fR(\*n),
 \fB@TSET@\fR(\*n),
-\fBterminfo\fR(5),
-\fBcurs_termcap\fR(3X).
+\fBcurs_termcap\fR(3X),
+\fBterminfo\fR(5).
 .PP
 This describes \fBncurses\fR
 version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).