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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[PATCH 13/19] README: Correct location of ncurses intro document. |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:45:48 -0500 |
Fortunately, it's been wrong only since 5_0_20000311.
Also wrap some long lines; except for the Ada-style comment header, the
file _seems_ to mostly use a fill column of 78, so use that. Add vile
modeline to assist with this.
---
README | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 4e4e0da0..ebea9361 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and
install ncurses.
See the file NEWS for a release history and bug-fix notes.
See the file TO-DO for things that still need doing, including known bugs.
-Browse the file misc/ncurses-intro.html for narrative descriptions of how
+Browse the file doc/html/ncurses-intro.html for narrative descriptions of how
to use ncurses and the panel, menu, and form libraries.
Browse the file doc/html/hackguide.html for a tour of the package internals.
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ code for these lives in the `ncurses', `panel', `menu', and
`form' directories
respectively.
In the `c++' directory, you'll find code that defines an interface to the
-curses, forms, menus and panels library packaged as C++ classes, and a demo
program in C++
-to test it. These class definition modules are not installed by the 'make
-install.libs' rule as libncurses++.
+curses, forms, menus and panels library packaged as C++ classes, and a demo
+program in C++ to test it. These class definition modules are not installed
+by the 'make install.libs' rule as libncurses++.
In the `Ada95' directory, you'll find code and documentation for an
Ada95 binding of the curses API, to be used with the GNAT compiler.
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ for documentation of the binding.
To do its job, the ncurses code needs your terminal type to be set in the
environment variable TERM (normally set by your OS; under UNIX, getty(1)
-typically does this, but you can override it in your .profile); and, it needs a
-database of terminal descriptions in which to look up your terminal type's
+typically does this, but you can override it in your .profile); and, it needs
+a database of terminal descriptions in which to look up your terminal type's
capabilities.
In older (V7/BSD) versions of curses, the database was a flat text file,
@@ -116,10 +116,10 @@ second form.
In the `misc' directory, there is a text file terminfo.src, in editable
terminfo format, which can be used to generate the terminfo binaries (that's
what make install.data does). If the package was built with the
---enable-termcap option enabled, and the ncurses library cannot find a terminfo
-description for your terminal, it will fall back to the termcap file supplied
-with your system (which the ncurses package installation leaves strictly
-alone).
+--enable-termcap option enabled, and the ncurses library cannot find a
+terminfo description for your terminal, it will fall back to the termcap file
+supplied with your system (which the ncurses package installation leaves
+strictly alone).
The utilities are as follows:
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ Eric S. Raymond:
xterm mouse support, and the ncurses test program.
Juergen Pfeifer
- The menu and form libraries, C++ bindings for ncurses, menus, forms and
- panels, as well as the Ada95 binding. Ongoing support for panel.
+ The menu and form libraries, C++ bindings for ncurses, menus, forms
+ and panels, as well as the Ada95 binding. Ongoing support for panel.
CONTRIBUTORS:
@@ -215,3 +215,5 @@ BUGS:
See the INSTALL file for bug and developer-list addresses.
The Hacker's Guide in the doc directory includes some guidelines
on how to report bugs in ways that will get them fixed most quickly.
+
+-- vile:txtmode fc=78
--
2.30.2
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