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author | Nicholas Marriott <nicm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-01-12 23:22:15 +0000 |
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committer | Nicholas Marriott <nicm@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-01-12 23:22:15 +0000 |
commit | 6ee254699bf787d78835419be2b3241fb037d444 (patch) | |
tree | 07fe67dab517e4990f344fe2c00e65cef4d25b81 /lib/libcurses/term.7 | |
parent | 0b62f5dc36fc7203a74cdc812c4234ae188fdfd2 (diff) |
Update to ncurses 5.7, with local changes reapplied.
This is around eight years worth of changes (previously we were around ncurses
5.2), too many to list - many bug fixes and also a few new functions.
A major bump for libcurses, libpanel, libform and libmenu.
ok deraadt
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcurses/term.7')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libcurses/term.7 | 29 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcurses/term.7 b/lib/libcurses/term.7 index e30a1e67df6..cbe38e6d734 100644 --- a/lib/libcurses/term.7 +++ b/lib/libcurses/term.7 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: term.7,v 1.7 2003/05/14 08:55:19 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: term.7,v 1.8 2010/01/12 23:21:59 nicm Exp $ .\" .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * .\" * .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * @@ -28,11 +28,10 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $From: term.7,v 1.12 2000/08/13 01:56:42 tom Exp $ -.\" $OpenBSD: term.7,v 1.7 2003/05/14 08:55:19 jmc Exp $ -.TH TERM 7 +.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.8 2010/01/12 23:21:59 nicm Exp $ +.TH term 7 .ds n 5 -.ds d /usr/share/terminfo +.ds d /usr/share/misc/terminfo .SH NAME term \- conventions for naming terminal types .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -68,16 +67,16 @@ which you wish to override the system default type for your line. .PP Terminal type descriptions are stored as files of capability data underneath \*d. To browse a list of all terminal names recognized by the system, do - +.sp toe | more - +.sp from your shell. These capability files are in a binary format optimized for retrieval speed (unlike the old text-based \fBtermcap\fR format they replace); -to examine an entry, you must use the \fBinfocmp\fR(1) command. Invoke it as -follows: - +to examine an entry, you must use the \fBinfocmp\fR(1) command. +Invoke it as follows: +.sp infocmp \fIentry-name\fR - +.sp where \fIentry-name\fR is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the name of its capability file the subdirectory of \*d named for its first letter). This command dumps a capability file in the text format described by @@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ terminals that also explains how to parse them: First, choose a root name. The root will consist of a lower-case letter followed by up to seven lower-case letters or digits. You need to avoid using punctuation characters in root names, because they are used and interpreted as -filenames, and shell meta-characters (such as !, $, *, ?, etc.) embedded in them +filenames and shell meta-characters (such as !, $, *, ?, etc.) embedded in them may cause odd and unhelpful behavior. The slash (/), or any other character that may be interpreted by anyone's file system (\e, $, [, ]), is especially dangerous (terminfo is platform-independent, and choosing names with special @@ -122,7 +121,7 @@ i.e. \fBlinux\fR, \fBbsdos\fR, \fBfreebsd\fR, \fBnetbsd\fR. It should multi-platform environment! If a model number follows, it should indicate either the OS release level or the console driver release level. .PP -The root name for a terminal emulator (assuming it doesn't fit one of the +The root name for a terminal emulator (assuming it does not fit one of the standard ANSI or vt100 types) should be the program name or a readily recognizable abbreviation of it (i.e. \fBversaterm\fR, \fBctrm\fR). .PP @@ -197,7 +196,7 @@ tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes) .TP 5 /etc/ttys tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes) -.SH "SEE ALSO" +.SH SEE ALSO \fBcurses\fR(3), \fBterminfo\fR(\*n), \fBterm\fR(\*n). .\"# .\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS |