Re: problem with trivial piece of code

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Folkert van Heusden wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> I found the problem: there was a \r in the text that I printed. As soon as
> wprintw finds this \r, the line is cleared.

yes - actually the code says ncurses moves the cursor to the beginning of
the line (it may not be cleared).

Checking, though, I don't see it documented properly in the manpage (and
that raises the issue of what other implementations do).  I'll check on
that and document it properly.

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