Re: [PATCH 13/30] man/*: Migrate terminology from "row" to "line".

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 07:17:59AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> ...for consistency with other usage and particularly with the global and
> environment variables "lines" and "LINES".
> 
> The form and menu libraries also use the terms "columns" and "rows", but
> until I dig deeper into their programming models I don't know if it
> makes sense to alter their usage similarly--possibly not, since FORM and
> MENU data structures are not WINDOWs or SCREENs (or TERMINALs).

They have associated windows:

       form_win                win(3FORM)
       form_sub                win(3FORM)

       menu_sub               win(3MENU)
       menu_win               win(3MENU)

but "rows" refer to a data structure, while "lines" are displayed.

(ncurses displays rows in lines on the screen :-)

For whatever reason, columns don't have that distinction.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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