Re: Documentation Suggestion

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Bryan Christ wrote:

> I was thinking in generalities.  Something like "mvcur() may use the
> following terminal capabilities..."

something like that - mvcur works directly.  But it's called from 
doupdate(), which does the bulk of the work for most things, including
scrolling.

> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 21:43 +0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Bryan Christ wrote:
> >
> > > Thomas,
> > >
> > > (As if you had all the free time in the world) One thing I think would
> > > be very helpful in the man pages would be list all of the related
> > > terminfo/caps that might apply to a function.  For example, somehow
> > > indicate that initsrc() and endwin() issue smcup and rmcup when
> > > available.  Does that make sense?
> >
> > There are a few special cases (like the ones you mention).  But scrolling
> > for example, would use a lot of features.  mvcur tries 5 different
> > strategies, choosing the cheapest.
> >
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> > Thomas E. Dickey
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