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Re: %s and %c in parameterized terminfo strings?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: %s and %c in parameterized terminfo strings? |
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Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:42:56 -0400 |
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 04:05:36PM -0400, Anmol Sethi wrote:
> I'm reading the terminfo man page and I noticed that parameterized strings
> can have %s in them which pops the stack and prints the value with printf
> using %s. why is there both %c and %s? as far as I can tell, you can't push
> an actual string onto the stack, only characters/integers.
Actually tparm accepts strings (and a few entries use those, e.g., for
function-key labels).
Probably both %c and %s are there because (30 years ago) someone wanted
to make it more like printf, and also because emitting a single character
is done frequently in terminfo.
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