X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fcurs_touch.3x;h=e53207896529db531f2c0e697e729f8ec7785492;hp=8d4a88cb0cfb7c1b4c7ae3867dedd98ea24dd0af;hb=349761f30e7fc0b4bf2718f7fc3da34e09ea6735;hpb=8d3ea9021573747ecd129228ba7782a03243f62c;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/man/curs_touch.3x b/man/curs_touch.3x index 8d4a88cb..e5320789 100644 --- a/man/curs_touch.3x +++ b/man/curs_touch.3x @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2015,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright 2018,2020 Thomas E. Dickey * +.\" Copyright 1998-2015,2017 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: curs_touch.3x,v 1.20 2017/11/25 16:19:42 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: curs_touch.3x,v 1.22 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $ .TH curs_touch 3X "" .na .hy 0 @@ -57,10 +58,12 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION The \fBtouchwin\fR and \fBtouchline\fR routines throw away all optimization information about which parts of the window have been -touched, by pretending that the entire window has been drawn on. This +touched, by pretending that the entire window has been drawn on. +This is sometimes necessary when using overlapping windows, since a change to one window affects the other window, but the records of which lines -have been changed in the other window do not reflect the change. The +have been changed in the other window do not reflect the change. +The routine \fBtouchline\fR only pretends that \fIcount\fR lines have been changed, beginning with line \fIstart\fR. .PP