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authorXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2014-02-28 19:18:07 +0000
committerXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2014-02-28 19:18:07 +0000
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Redo import of ncurses 5.9 (stripped).vendor/ncurses/5.9-20110404_stripped
Notes
Notes: svn path=/vendor/ncurses/dist/; revision=262617 svn path=/vendor/ncurses/5.9-20110404_stripped/; revision=262631; tag=vendor/ncurses/5.9-20110404_stripped
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2010 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 *
@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@
.\" authorization. *
.\"***************************************************************************
.\"
-.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.14 2006/12/24 16:05:49 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.17 2010/12/04 18:40:45 tom Exp $
.TH curs_scanw 3X ""
.SH NAME
\fBscanw\fR,
\fBwscanw\fR,
\fBmvscanw\fR,
\fBmvwscanw\fR,
-\fBvwscanw\fR, \fBvw_scanw\fR - convert formatted input from a \fBcurses\fR window
+\fBvwscanw\fR, \fBvw_scanw\fR \- convert formatted input from a \fBcurses\fR window
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fB#include <curses.h>\fR
.sp
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ number of fields scanned on success.
Applications may use the return value from the \fBscanw\fR, \fBwscanw\fR,
\fBmvscanw\fR and \fBmvwscanw\fR routines to determine the number of fields
which were mapped in the call.
+.PP
+Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
+\fBwmove\fP, and return an error if the position is outside the window,
+or if the window pointer is null.
.SH PORTABILITY
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions. The function
\fBvwscanw\fR is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function
@@ -89,9 +93,3 @@ One possible way to get useful results would be to use a "%n" conversion
at the end of the format string to ensure that something was processed.
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBcurs_getstr\fR(3X), \fBcurs_printw\fR(3X), \fBscanf\fR(3)
-.\"#
-.\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS
-.\"# Local Variables:
-.\"# mode:nroff
-.\"# fill-column:79
-.\"# End: