X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Finfocmp.1m;h=a7feb4495766c8c83e3b71524a53f085e4b231ba;hp=1bf6498032e2c8a51c82080aa8756248e8e9d5d5;hb=027ae42953e3186daed8f3882da73de48291b606;hpb=55ccd2b959766810cf7db8d1c4462f338ce0afc8 diff --git a/man/infocmp.1m b/man/infocmp.1m index 1bf64980..a7feb449 100644 --- a/man/infocmp.1m +++ b/man/infocmp.1m @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ '\" t .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2003,2004 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 * @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: infocmp.1m,v 1.39 2004/08/28 22:43:49 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: infocmp.1m,v 1.43 2006/05/13 15:14:01 tom Exp $ .TH infocmp 1M "" .ds n 5 .ds d @TERMINFO@ @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ G\ I\ L\ T\ +U\ V\ c\ d\ @@ -82,15 +83,15 @@ terminal's \fItermnames\fR. If a capability is defined for only one of the terminals, the value returned will depend on the type of the capability: \fBF\fR for boolean variables, \fB-1\fR for integer variables, and \fBNULL\fR for string variables. - +.PP The \fB-d\fR option produces a list of each capability that is different between two entries. This option is useful to show the difference between two entries, created by different people, for the same or similar terminals. - +.PP The \fB-c\fR option produces a list of each capability that is common between two entries. Capabilities that are not set are ignored. This option can be used as a quick check to see if the \fB-u\fR option is worth using. - +.PP The \fB-n\fR option produces a list of each capability that is in neither entry. If no \fItermnames\fR are given, the environment variable \fBTERM\fR will be used for both of the \fItermnames\fR. This can be used as a quick @@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ check to see if anything was left out of a description. .SS Source Listing Options [-I] [-L] [-C] [-r] The \fB-I\fR, \fB-L\fR, and \fB-C\fR options will produce a source listing for each terminal named. - +. .TS center tab(/) ; l l . @@ -107,27 +108,27 @@ l l . \fB-C\fR/use the \fBtermcap\fR names \fB-r\fR/when using \fB-C\fR, put out all capabilities in \fBtermcap\fR form .TE - +.PP If no \fItermnames\fR are given, the environment variable \fBTERM\fR will be used for the terminal name. - +.PP The source produced by the \fB-C\fR option may be used directly as a \fBtermcap\fR entry, but not all parameterized strings can be changed to the \fBtermcap\fR format. \fBinfocmp\fR will attempt to convert most of the parameterized information, and anything not converted will be plainly marked in the output and commented out. These should be edited by hand. - +.PP All padding information for strings will be collected together and placed at the beginning of the string where \fBtermcap\fR expects it. Mandatory padding (padding information with a trailing '/') will become optional. - +.PP All \fBtermcap\fR variables no longer supported by \fBterminfo\fR, but which are derivable from other \fBterminfo\fR variables, will be output. Not all \fBterminfo\fR capabilities will be translated; only those variables which were part of \fBtermcap\fR will normally be output. Specifying the \fB-r\fR option will take off this restriction, allowing all capabilities to be output in \fItermcap\fR form. - +.PP Note that because padding is collected to the beginning of the capability, not all capabilities are output. Mandatory padding is not supported. Because \fBtermcap\fR strings are not as flexible, it is not always possible to convert @@ -135,10 +136,10 @@ a \fBterminfo\fR string capability into an equivalent \fBtermcap\fR format. A subsequent conversion of the \fBtermcap\fR file back into \fBterminfo\fR format will not necessarily reproduce the original \fBterminfo\fR source. - +.PP Some common \fBterminfo\fR parameter sequences, their \fBtermcap\fR equivalents, and some terminal types which commonly have such sequences, are: - +. .TS center tab(/) ; l c l @@ -163,27 +164,27 @@ entries into a terminal's description. Or, if two similar terminals exist, but were coded at different times or by different people so that each description is a full description, using \fBinfocmp\fR will show what can be done to change one description to be relative to the other. - +.PP A capability will get printed with an at-sign (@) if it no longer exists in the first \fItermname\fR, but one of the other \fItermname\fR entries contains a value for it. A capability's value gets printed if the value in the first \fItermname\fR is not found in any of the other \fItermname\fR entries, or if the first of the other \fItermname\fR entries that has this capability gives a different value for the capability than that in the first \fItermname\fR. - +.PP The order of the other \fItermname\fR entries is significant. Since the terminfo compiler \fBtic\fR does a left-to-right scan of the capabilities, specifying two \fBuse=\fR entries that contain differing entries for the same capabilities will produce different results depending on the order that the entries are given in. \fBinfocmp\fR will flag any such inconsistencies between the other \fItermname\fR entries as they are found. - +.PP Alternatively, specifying a capability \fIafter\fR a \fBuse=\fR entry that contains that capability will cause the second specification to be ignored. Using \fBinfocmp\fR to recreate a description can be a useful check to make sure that everything was specified correctly in the original source description. - +.PP Another error that does not cause incorrect compiled files, but will slow down the compilation time, is specifying extra \fBuse=\fR fields that are superfluous. \fBinfocmp\fR will flag any other \fItermname use=\fR fields that @@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ of the capability name, followed by a colon and space, followed by a printable expansion of the capability string with sections matching recognized actions translated into {}-bracketed descriptions. Here is a list of the DEC/ANSI special sequences recognized: - +i. .TS center tab(/) ; l l @@ -275,26 +276,26 @@ SC/save cursor RC/restore cursor LL/home-down RSR/reset scroll region - += DECSTR/soft reset (VT320) S7C1T/7-bit controls (VT220) - += ISO DEC G0/enable DEC graphics for G0 ISO UK G0/enable UK chars for G0 ISO US G0/enable US chars for G0 ISO DEC G1/enable DEC graphics for G1 ISO UK G1/enable UK chars for G1 ISO US G1/enable US chars for G1 - += DECPAM/application keypad mode DECPNM/normal keypad mode DECANSI/enter ANSI mode - += ECMA[+-]AM/keyboard action mode ECMA[+-]IRM/insert replace mode ECMA[+-]SRM/send receive mode ECMA[+-]LNM/linefeed mode - += DEC[+-]CKM/application cursor keys DEC[+-]ANM/set VT52 mode DEC[+-]COLM/132-column mode @@ -308,7 +309,7 @@ DEC[+-]ARM/auto-repeat mode It also recognizes a SGR action corresponding to ANSI/ISO 6429/ECMA Set Graphics Rendition, with the values NORMAL, BOLD, UNDERLINE, BLINK, and REVERSE. All but NORMAL may be prefixed with `+' (turn on) or `-' (turn off). - +.PP An SGR0 designates an empty highlight sequence (equivalent to {SGR:NORMAL}). .TP 5 \fB-l\fR @@ -365,6 +366,12 @@ tells \fBtic\fP to discard commented-out capabilities. Normally when translating from terminfo to termcap, untranslatable capabilities are commented-out. .TP 5 +\fB-U\fR +tells \fBinfocmp\fP to not post-process the data after parsing the source file. +This feature helps when comparing the actual contents of two source files, +since it excludes the inferences that \fBinfocmp\fP makes to fill in missing +data. +.TP 5 \fB-V\fR reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits. .TP 5 @@ -401,16 +408,22 @@ The \fB-q\fR and \fB-t\fR options are not supported in SVr4 curses. - +.PP The \fB-r\fR option's notion of `termcap' capabilities is System V Release 4's. Actual BSD curses versions will have a more restricted set. To see only the 4.4BSD set, use \fB-r\fR \fB-RBSD\fR. .SH BUGS The \fB-F\fR option of \fBinfocmp\fR(1M) should be a \fBtoe\fR(1M) mode. .SH SEE ALSO -\fBinfocmp\fR(1M), \fBcaptoinfo\fR(1M), \fBinfotocap\fR(1M), -\fBtic\fR(1M), \fBtoe\fR(1M), -\fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBterminfo\fR(\*n). +\fB@CAPTOINFO@\fR(1M), +\fB@INFOTOCAP@\fR(1M), +\fB@TIC@\fR(1M), +\fB@TOE@\fR(1M), +\fBcurses\fR(3X), +\fBterminfo\fR(\*n). +.PP +This describes \fBncurses\fR +version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@). .SH AUTHOR Eric S. Raymond and