Re: Documentation Suggestion

[Bryan Christ]

I was thinking in generalities.  Something like "mvcur() may use the
following terminal capabilities..."


On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 21:43 +0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Bryan Christ wrote:
> 
> > Thomas,
> >
> > (As if you had all the free time in the world) One thing I think would
> > be very helpful in the man pages would be list all of the related
> > terminfo/caps that might apply to a function.  For example, somehow
> > indicate that initsrc() and endwin() issue smcup and rmcup when
> > available.  Does that make sense?
> 
> There are a few special cases (like the ones you mention).  But scrolling
> for example, would use a lot of features.  mvcur tries 5 different
> strategies, choosing the cheapest.
> 
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