X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fterminfo.head;h=398170fffda59b9cdaaff3581b45c9c8bfe1e169;hp=3869cca0babe066fd9fdc1c4524bae1c713f6638;hb=55ccd2b959766810cf7db8d1c4462f338ce0afc8;hpb=46722468f47c2b77b3987729b4bcf2321cccfd01 diff --git a/man/terminfo.head b/man/terminfo.head index 3869cca0..398170ff 100644 --- a/man/terminfo.head +++ b/man/terminfo.head @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2004 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 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.10 2002/08/17 23:37:10 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.12 2004/09/25 19:07:11 tom Exp $ .TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats" .ds n 5 .ds d @TERMINFO@ @@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ 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 \fIcaptoinfo\fP +and \fIinfotocap\fP (aliases for \fItic\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 \fIinfocmp\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions: +the result can be read by \fItic\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