X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fncurses.3x;h=0c0c2ef39747762071c7600f03e82c282b6ed6e4;hp=6a5aa7c0c2feb6987310ee5bea3596c8ea2e8427;hb=ef2d99350e0d3e4606171b5b1466ab92ec440205;hpb=7517964d4343789c36b7ded32feb81961b03b725 diff --git a/man/ncurses.3x b/man/ncurses.3x index 6a5aa7c0..0c0c2ef3 100644 --- a/man/ncurses.3x +++ b/man/ncurses.3x @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: ncurses.3x,v 1.112 2013/07/20 19:29:59 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: ncurses.3x,v 1.115 2014/03/08 22:07:02 tom Exp $ .hy 0 .TH ncurses 3X "" .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq @@ -760,14 +760,6 @@ The following environment symbols are useful for customizing the runtime behavior of the \fBncurses\fR library. The most important ones have been already discussed in detail. .TP 5 -BAUDRATE -The debugging library checks this environment variable when the application -has redirected output to a file. -The variable's numeric value is used for the baudrate. -If no value is found, \fBncurses\fR uses 9600. -This allows testers to construct repeatable test-cases -that take into account costs that depend on baudrate. -.TP 5 CC When set, change occurrences of the command_character (i.e., the \fBcmdch\fP capability) @@ -778,6 +770,14 @@ Because this name is also used in development environments to represent the C compiler's name, \fBncurses\fR ignores it if it does not happen to be a single character. .TP 5 +BAUDRATE +The debugging library checks this environment variable when the application +has redirected output to a file. +The variable's numeric value is used for the baudrate. +If no value is found, \fBncurses\fR uses 9600. +This allows testers to construct repeatable test-cases +that take into account costs that depend on baudrate. +.TP 5 COLUMNS Specify the width of the screen in characters. Applications running in a windowing environment usually are able to @@ -868,6 +868,17 @@ about the colors, set this to "\-1,\-1". To make it green-on-black, set it to "2,0". Any positive value from zero to the terminfo \fBmax_colors\fR value is allowed. .TP 5 +NCURSES_CONSOLE2 +This applies only to the MinGW port of ncurses. +.IP +The \fBConsole2\fP program's handling of the Microsoft Console API call +\fBCreateConsoleScreenBuffer\fP is defective. +Applications which use this will hang. +However, it is possible to simulate the action of this call by +mapping coordinates, +explicitly saving and restoring the original screen contents. +Setting the environment variable \fBNCGDB\fP has the same effect. +.TP 5 NCURSES_GPM_TERMS This applies only to ncurses configured to use the GPM interface. .IP @@ -1131,6 +1142,16 @@ the wide-character library's headers should be installed last, to allow applications to be built using either library from the same set of headers. .TP 5 +\-\-with\-pthread +The configure script renames the library. +All of the library names have a "t" appended to them +(before any "w" added by \fB\-\-enable\-widec\fP). +.IP +The global variables such as \fBLINES\fP are replaced by macros to +allow read-only access. +At the same time, setter-functions are provided to set these values. +Some applications (very few) may require changes to work with this convention. +.TP 5 \-\-with\-shared .TP \-\-with\-normal