X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fterminfo.head;h=7455675ab953cd7d661320e62ec65c74a828b97a;hp=398170fffda59b9cdaaff3581b45c9c8bfe1e169;hb=7b2974498fac39a3ffde257c92f572234d529239;hpb=55ccd2b959766810cf7db8d1c4462f338ce0afc8;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/man/terminfo.head b/man/terminfo.head index 398170ff..7455675a 100644 --- a/man/terminfo.head +++ b/man/terminfo.head @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2004 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 * @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.12 2004/09/25 19:07:11 tom Exp $ -.TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats" +.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.16 2007/03/04 00:09:46 tom Exp $ +.TH terminfo 5 "" "" "File Formats" .ds n 5 .ds d @TERMINFO@ .SH NAME @@ -45,11 +45,13 @@ and libraries such as describes terminals by giving a set of capabilities which they have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences. +This describes \fBncurses\fR +version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@). .PP Entries in .I terminfo consist of a sequence of `,' separated fields (embedded commas may be -escaped with a backslash or notated as \e054). +escaped with a backslash or notated as \\054). White space after the `,' separator is ignored. The first entry for each terminal gives the names which are known for the terminal, separated by `|' characters. @@ -60,14 +62,14 @@ 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) +While comment lines are legal at any point, the output of \fB@CAPTOINFO@\fP +and \fB@INFOTOCAP@\fP (aliases for \fB@TIC@\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. +The \fB@INFOCMP@\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions: +the result can be read by \fB@TIC@\fP. .PP Terminal names (except for the last, verbose entry) should be chosen using the following conventions.