Re: tgoto(3) says col,row but it seems to be x,col?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
 |On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:40:17PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> and termcap(5) says "ch Move cursor horizontally only to column
 |> %1" and terminfo(5) says "column_address hpa ch horizontal
 |> %position #1, absolute (P)", but when i'm doing
 |> n_termcap_cmd(n_TERMCAP_CMD_ch, w, -1) which translates to
 |> tgoto(cp, a1, a2) then nothing happens, i have to write
 |> tgoto(cp,0,a1) instead.
 |
 |yes, that's right, but puzzling
 |
 |The problem is that tgoto documention refers to "col,row" but
 |two-parameter cursor movement strings conventionally put the row
 |first.  So tgoto has "always" reversed those parameters.
 |
 |Also, tgoto does not pay any attention to the number of parameters
 |a capability uses: it simply reverses all of the col/row to row/col
 |values.

I didn't know that; thank you very much, also for the actual
patch, which is very informative!  (I'm not yet there, the final
version will use the terminfo interface directly when available.)
Ciao,

--steffen