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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:52:33 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:52:33 +0000
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parentReleasing progress-linux version 4.22.0-1~progress7.99u1. (diff)
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Merging upstream version 4.23.0.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/scanw.3ncurses b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/scanw.3ncurses
index 3339458b..55993621 100644
--- a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/scanw.3ncurses
+++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/scanw.3ncurses
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey *
.\" Copyright 1998-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
.\" *
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
.\" authorization. *
.\"***************************************************************************
.\"
-.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.47 2023/12/23 14:41:50 tom Exp $
-.TH scanw 3NCURSES 2023-12-23 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
+.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.53 2024/04/20 19:18:18 tom Exp $
+.TH scanw 3NCURSES 2024-04-20 "ncurses 6.5" "Library calls"
.ie \n(.g \{\
.ds `` \(lq
.ds '' \(rq
@@ -97,16 +97,18 @@ upon failure and otherwise a count of successful conversions;
this quantity may be zero.
.PP
In
-.I \%ncurses,
+.IR \%ncurses ,
failure occurs if \fI\%vsscanf\fP(3) returns
\fBEOF\fP,
or if the window pointer
.I win
is null.
.PP
-Functions with a \*(``mv\*('' prefix first perform a cursor movement
-using \fB\%wmove\fP,
-and fail if the position is outside the window.
+Functions prefixed with \*(``mv\*('' first perform cursor movement and
+fail if the position
+.RI ( y ,
+.IR x )
+is outside the window boundaries.
.SH NOTES
No wide character counterpart functions are defined by the
\*(``wide\*(''
@@ -124,7 +126,8 @@ respectively.
implements \fI\%vsscanf\fP(3) internally if it is unavailable when the
library is configured.
.SH PORTABILITY
-X/Open Curses, Issue 4, describes these functions.
+X/Open Curses,
+Issue 4 describes these functions.
It specifies no error conditions for them.
.PP
.I \%ncurses
@@ -133,13 +136,15 @@ legacy applications.
However,
the latter is obsolete.
.bP
-X/Open Curses, Issue 4, Version 2 (1996),
+X/Open Curses,
+Issue 4 Version 2 (1996),
marked \fB\%vwscanw\fP as requiring \fI\%varargs.h\fP and
\*(``TO BE WITHDRAWN\*('',
and specified \fB\%vw_scanw\fP using the \fI\%stdarg.h\fP interface.
.bP
-X/Open Curses, Issue 5, Draft 2
-(December 2007) marked \fB\%vwscanw\fP (along with
+X/Open Curses,
+Issue 5,
+Draft 2 (December 2007) marked \fB\%vwscanw\fP (along with
\fB\%vwscanw\fP and the \fItermcap\fP interface) as withdrawn.
After incorporating review comments,
this became
@@ -162,7 +167,7 @@ this may have been an editorial solecism introduced by X/Open,
rather than an intentional change.
.bP
This implementation retains compatibility with SVr4
-.I curses.
+.IR curses .
As of 2018,
NetBSD
.I curses
@@ -202,7 +207,7 @@ In 1991
and after the C standard was published),
other developers updated the library,
using \fI\%stdarg.h\fP internally in 4.4BSD
-.I curses.
+.IR curses .
Even with this improvement,
BSD
.I curses