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Re: Documentation Suggestion


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Documentation Suggestion
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:54:52 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Bryan Christ wrote:

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

something like that - mvcur works directly. But it's called from doupdate(), which does the bulk of the work for most things, including
scrolling.



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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