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Re: problem with trivial piece of code
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: problem with trivial piece of code |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:11:42 -0500 (EST) |
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I found the problem: there was a \r in the text that I printed. As soon as
> wprintw finds this \r, the line is cleared.
yes - actually the code says ncurses moves the cursor to the beginning of
the line (it may not be cleared).
Checking, though, I don't see it documented properly in the manpage (and
that raises the issue of what other implementations do). I'll check on
that and document it properly.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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