Re: tgoto(3) says col,row but it seems to be x,col?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:49:39AM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
>  |On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:40:17PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>  |> and termcap(5) says "ch Move cursor horizontally only to column
>  |> %1" and terminfo(5) says "column_address hpa ch horizontal
>  |> %position #1, absolute (P)", but when i'm doing
>  |> n_termcap_cmd(n_TERMCAP_CMD_ch, w, -1) which translates to
>  |> tgoto(cp, a1, a2) then nothing happens, i have to write
>  |> tgoto(cp,0,a1) instead.
>  |
>  |yes, that's right, but puzzling
>  |
>  |The problem is that tgoto documention refers to "col,row" but
>  |two-parameter cursor movement strings conventionally put the row
>  |first.  So tgoto has "always" reversed those parameters.
>  |
>  |Also, tgoto does not pay any attention to the number of parameters
>  |a capability uses: it simply reverses all of the col/row to row/col
>  |values.
> 
> I didn't know that; thank you very much, also for the actual
> patch, which is very informative!  (I'm not yet there, the final
> version will use the terminfo interface directly when available.)
> Ciao,

no problem (report bugs)

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