[PATCH 086/177] man/curs_clear.3x: Copy admonition from bkgd(3X) re: immedok().

[G. Branden Robinson]

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 man/curs_clear.3x | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/curs_clear.3x b/man/curs_clear.3x
index fb1e3328f..de85fbfca 100644
--- a/man/curs_clear.3x
+++ b/man/curs_clear.3x
@@ -114,11 +114,23 @@ .SH PORTABILITY
 X/Open Curses Issue\ 4 describes these functions.
 It specifies no error conditions for them.
 .PP
-The SVr4.0 manual says that these functions could return
-\*(``or a non-negative integer if \fB\%immedok\fP is set\*('',
-referring to the return-value of \fBwrefresh\fP.
-In that implementation, \fBwrefresh\fP would return a count of
-the number of characters written to the terminal.
+SVr4 documentation
+.\" SVID 4, vol. 3, p. 485
+says that these functions return
+.I OK
+\*(``or a non-negative integer if
+.I \%immedok() \" Courier roman in source
+is set\*('',
+referring to the return value from
+.IR \%wrefresh ","
+which in SVr4 returns a count of characters
+written to the window if its
+.I \%immedok
+property is set;
+.\" ...though its wrefresh() man page says nothing about immedok()...
+in
+.IR \%ncurses ","
+it does not.
 .PP
 Some historic curses implementations had, as an undocumented feature, the
 ability to do the equivalent of \fBclearok(..., 1)\fP by saying
-- 
2.30.2

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