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| author | wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org> | 2017-07-03 21:28:48 +0000 |
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| committer | wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org> | 2017-07-03 21:28:48 +0000 |
| commit | 56b14ee00121a3a960d2fbe103c85e147ac57103 (patch) | |
| tree | 05478e811140b3d30b452dcff8e4df8bdab6e3f8 /lib/libform | |
| parent | 7c0084bd3e3114326ae5e7336142439f1d2a10e1 (diff) | |
Remove workaround for ancient HTML generation code.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libform')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libform/forms.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libform/forms.3 b/lib/libform/forms.3 index 6be7ae3a7fe..e715110fd56 100644 --- a/lib/libform/forms.3 +++ b/lib/libform/forms.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: forms.3,v 1.16 2004/11/24 12:09:13 wiz Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: forms.3,v 1.17 2017/07/03 21:32:50 wiz Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2001 .\" Brett Lymn - blymn@baea.com.au, brett_lymn@yahoo.com.au @@ -184,18 +184,18 @@ request passed to it. .Xr menus 3 .Sh NOTES This implementation of the forms library does depart in behavior -subtly from the original AT\*[Am]T implementation. +subtly from the original AT&T implementation. Some of the more notable departures are: .Pp .Bl -tag -width "The TAB character" -compact .It field wrapping For multi-line fields the data will be wrapped as it is entered, this -does not happen in the AT\*[Am]T implementation. +does not happen in the AT&T implementation. .It buffer 0 In this implementation, the contents of buffer 0 are always current regardless of whether the field has been validated or not. .It circular fields -In the AT\*[Am]T implementation fields are circular on a page, that is, a +In the AT&T implementation fields are circular on a page, that is, a next field from the last field will go to the first field on the current page. In this implementation a next field request on the last @@ -203,11 +203,11 @@ field of a page will result in the forms library positioning the cursor on the first field of the next page. If the field is the last field in the form then going to the next field will be denied, in the -AT\*[Am]T it would result in the cursor being placed on the first field of +AT&T it would result in the cursor being placed on the first field of the first page. .It buffer returns In this implementation only the data entered by the user in the form -field will be returned, unlike the AT\*[Am]T library which would return the +field will be returned, unlike the AT&T library which would return the contents of the field padded to the size of the field with the pad character. .It The TAB character @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ implementations. In ncurses attempting to set a field contents with a string containing a TAB will result in an error and will not allow a TAB to be entered into a field. -The AT\*[Am]T library statically +The AT&T library statically converts tabs to the equivalent number of spaces when the field buffer is set but the form driver will not allow a TAB to be inserted into the field buffer. |
