[PATCH 28/43] man/ncurses.3x: Relocate material.

[G. Branden Robinson]

Mention much earlier the new ceiling on a COLUMNS (or LINES) value read
from the environment.
---
 man/ncurses.3x | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/ncurses.3x b/man/ncurses.3x
index b5d787b0a..8d48b271a 100644
--- a/man/ncurses.3x
+++ b/man/ncurses.3x
@@ -1149,6 +1149,8 @@ .SS "\fICOLUMNS\fP"
 This variable specifies the width of the screen in characters.
 Applications running in a windowing environment usually are able to
 obtain the width of the window in which they are executing.
+.I \%ncurses
+enforces an upper limit of 512 when reading the value.
 If
 .I \%COLUMNS
 is not defined and the terminal's screen size is not available from the
@@ -1179,8 +1181,6 @@ .SS "\fICOLUMNS\fP"
 and
 .I \%LINES
 variables may be specified independently.
-.I \%ncurses
-enforces an upper limit of 512 on each when reading the value.
 This property is useful to circumvent misfeatures of legacy terminal
 type descriptions;
 \fI\%xterm\fP(1) descriptions specifying 65 lines were once notorious.
-- 
2.30.2

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