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diff --git a/doc/html/man/curs_outopts.3x.html b/doc/html/man/curs_outopts.3x.html index 75175d194bb0..a860b1bb1291 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/curs_outopts.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/curs_outopts.3x.html @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ * sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written * * authorization. * **************************************************************************** - * @Id: curs_outopts.3x,v 1.30 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp @ + * @Id: curs_outopts.3x,v 1.33 2020/10/03 22:04:09 tom Exp @ --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ </PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE> <STRONG>clearok</STRONG>, <STRONG>idlok</STRONG>, <STRONG>idcok</STRONG>, <STRONG>immedok</STRONG>, <STRONG>leaveok</STRONG>, <STRONG>setscrreg</STRONG>, <STRONG>wsetscrreg</STRONG>, - <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG>, <STRONG>nl</STRONG>, <STRONG>nonl</STRONG> - <STRONG>curses</STRONG> output options + <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG> - <STRONG>curses</STRONG> output options </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE> @@ -59,11 +59,10 @@ <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>idcok(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <EM>bf</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG> <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>immedok(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <EM>bf</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>leaveok(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <EM>bf</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG> + <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>scrollok(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <EM>bf</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG> + <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>setscrreg(int</STRONG> <EM>top</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>bot</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wsetscrreg(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>top</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>bot</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG> - <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>scrollok(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>bool</STRONG> <EM>bf</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG> - <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>nl(void);</STRONG> - <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>nonl(void);</STRONG> </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE> @@ -118,7 +117,17 @@ cursor motions. -</PRE><H3><a name="h3-setscrreg">setscrreg</a></H3><PRE> +</PRE><H3><a name="h3-scrollok">scrollok</a></H3><PRE> + The <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG> option controls what happens when the cursor of a window + is moved off the edge of the window or scrolling region, either as a + result of a newline action on the bottom line, or typing the last char- + acter of the last line. If disabled, (<EM>bf</EM> is <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>), the cursor is left + on the bottom line. If enabled, (<EM>bf</EM> is <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>), the window is scrolled + up one line (Note that to get the physical scrolling effect on the ter- + minal, it is also necessary to call <STRONG>idlok</STRONG>). + + +</PRE><H3><a name="h3-setscrreg_wsetscrreg">setscrreg/wsetscrreg</a></H3><PRE> The <STRONG>setscrreg</STRONG> and <STRONG>wsetscrreg</STRONG> routines allow the application programmer to set a software scrolling region in a window. The <EM>top</EM> and <EM>bot</EM> param- eters are the line numbers of the top and bottom margin of the @@ -132,57 +141,37 @@ line capability, they will probably be used by the output routines.) -</PRE><H3><a name="h3-scrollok">scrollok</a></H3><PRE> - The <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG> option controls what happens when the cursor of a window - is moved off the edge of the window or scrolling region, either as a - result of a newline action on the bottom line, or typing the last char- - acter of the last line. If disabled, (<EM>bf</EM> is <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>), the cursor is left - on the bottom line. If enabled, (<EM>bf</EM> is <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>), the window is scrolled - up one line (Note that to get the physical scrolling effect on the ter- - minal, it is also necessary to call <STRONG>idlok</STRONG>). - - -</PRE><H3><a name="h3-nl_-nonl">nl, nonl</a></H3><PRE> - The <STRONG>nl</STRONG> and <STRONG>nonl</STRONG> routines control whether the underlying display device - translates the return key into newline on input, and whether it trans- - lates newline into return and line-feed on output (in either case, the - call <STRONG>addch('\n')</STRONG> does the equivalent of return and line feed on the - <EM>virtual</EM> <EM>screen</EM>). Initially, these translations do occur. If you dis- - able them using <STRONG>nonl</STRONG>, <STRONG>curses</STRONG> will be able to make better use of the - line-feed capability, resulting in faster cursor motion. Also, <STRONG>curses</STRONG> - will then be able to detect the return key. - - </PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE> - The functions <STRONG>setscrreg</STRONG> and <STRONG>wsetscrreg</STRONG> return <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon success and <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> - upon failure. All other routines that return an integer always return + The functions <STRONG>setscrreg</STRONG> and <STRONG>wsetscrreg</STRONG> return <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon success and <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> + upon failure. All other routines that return an integer always return <STRONG>OK</STRONG>. X/Open Curses does not define any error conditions. - In this implementation, those functions that have a window pointer will - return an error if the window pointer is null. + In this implementation, - <STRONG>wclrtoeol</STRONG> - returns an error if the cursor position is about to wrap. + <STRONG>o</STRONG> those functions that have a window pointer will return an error if + the window pointer is null - <STRONG>wsetscrreg</STRONG> - returns an error if the scrolling region limits extend out- - side the window. + <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>wsetscrreg</STRONG> returns an error if the scrolling region limits extend + outside the window. - X/Open does not define any error conditions. This implementation re- + X/Open does not define any error conditions. This implementation re- turns an error if the window pointer is null. </PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE> These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. - The XSI Curses standard is ambiguous on the question of whether <STRONG>raw</STRONG> - should disable the CRLF translations controlled by <STRONG>nl</STRONG> and <STRONG>nonl</STRONG>. BSD - curses did turn off these translations; AT&T curses (at least as late - as SVr1) did not. We choose to do so, on the theory that a programmer - requesting raw input wants a clean (ideally 8-bit clean) connection - that the operating system will not alter. + From the outset, ncurses used <STRONG>nl</STRONG>/<STRONG>nonl</STRONG> to control the conversion of new- + lines to carriage return/line-feed on output as well as input. XSI + Curses documents only the use of these functions for input. This dif- + ference arose from converting the <EM>pcurses</EM> source (which used <STRONG>ioctl</STRONG> + calls with the <STRONG>sgttyb</STRONG> structure) to termios (i.e., the POSIX terminal + interface). In the former, both input and output were controlled via a + single option <STRONG>CRMOD</STRONG>, while the latter separates these features. Be- + cause that conversion interferes with output optimization, <STRONG>nl</STRONG>/<STRONG>nonl</STRONG> were + amended after ncurses 6.2 to eliminate their effect on output. Some historic curses implementations had, as an undocumented feature, the ability to do the equivalent of <STRONG>clearok(...,</STRONG> <STRONG>1)</STRONG> by saying <STRONG>touch-</STRONG> @@ -201,8 +190,8 @@ </PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE> - Note that <STRONG>clearok</STRONG>, <STRONG>leaveok</STRONG>, <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG>, <STRONG>idcok</STRONG>, <STRONG>nl</STRONG>, <STRONG>nonl</STRONG> and <STRONG>setscrreg</STRONG> may - be macros. + Note that <STRONG>clearok</STRONG>, <STRONG>leaveok</STRONG>, <STRONG>scrollok</STRONG>, <STRONG>idcok</STRONG>, and <STRONG>setscrreg</STRONG> may be + macros. The <STRONG>immedok</STRONG> routine is useful for windows that are used as terminal em- ulators. @@ -227,9 +216,8 @@ <li><a href="#h3-idcok">idcok</a></li> <li><a href="#h3-immedok">immedok</a></li> <li><a href="#h3-leaveok">leaveok</a></li> -<li><a href="#h3-setscrreg">setscrreg</a></li> <li><a href="#h3-scrollok">scrollok</a></li> -<li><a href="#h3-nl_-nonl">nl, nonl</a></li> +<li><a href="#h3-setscrreg_wsetscrreg">setscrreg/wsetscrreg</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li> |