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curs_inopts(3)							curs_inopts(3)

NAME
       curs_inopts, cbreak, nocbreak, echo, noecho, halfdelay, intrflush, key‐
       pad, meta, nodelay, qiflush, noqiflush, raw, noraw, timeout,  notimeut,
       wtimeout,  typeahead  -	Curses	routines  that	control terminal-input
       options

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curses.h>

       int cbreak(
	       void ); int nocbreak(
	       void ); int echo(
	       void ); int noecho(
	       void ); int halfdelay(
	       int tenths ); int intrflush(
	       WINDOW *win,
	       bool bf ); int keypad(
	       WINDOW *win,
	       bool bf ); int meta(
	       WINDOW *win,
	       bool bf ); int nodelay(
	       WINDOW *win,
	       bool bf ); int raw(
	       void ); int noraw(
	       void ); void qiflush(
	       void ); void noqiflush(
	       void ); void timeout(
	       int delay ); int notimeout(
	       WINDOW *win,
	       bool bf ); void wtimeout(
	       WINDOW *win,
	       int delay ); int typeahead(
	       int fd );

LIBRARY
       Curses Library (libcurses)

STANDARDS
       Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry	 stan‐
       dards as follows:

       cbreak,	nocbreak,  echo,  noecho,  halfdelay, intrflush, keypad, meta,
       nodelay, qiflush, noqiflush, raw, noraw, timeout, notimeout,  wtimeout,
       typeahead:  XCURSES4.2

       Refer  to  the  standards(5)  reference page for more information about
       industry standards and associated tags.

DESCRIPTION
       The cbreak and nocbreak routines put  the  terminal  into  and  out  of
       cbreak  mode, respectively.  In this mode, characters typed by the user
       are immediately available to the program, and erase/kill character-pro‐
       cessing is not performed. When out of this mode, the tty driver buffers
       the typed characters until the user types a newline or carriage return.
       Interrupt and flow-control characters are unaffected by this mode. Ini‐
       tially, the terminal may or may not be in cbreak mode, as the  mode  is
       inherited;  therefore, a program should call cbreak or nocbreak explic‐
       itly. Most interactive programs using Curses set the cbreak mode.

       Note that cbreak overrides raw.	(See curs_getch(3) for a discussion of
       how these routines interact with echo and noecho.)

       The  echo  and  noecho routines control whether characters typed by the
       user are echoed by getch as they are typed. Echoing by the  tty	driver
       is  always disabled, but initially getch is in echo mode, so characters
       are echoed as they are typed.  Authors  of  most	 interactive  programs
       prefer  to  do  their own echoing in a controlled area of the screen or
       not to echo at all, so they disable echoing  by	calling	 noecho.  (See
       curs_getch(3)  for  a  discussion  of  how these routines interact with
       cbreak and nocbreak.)

       The halfdelay routine sets half-delay mode, which is similar to	cbreak
       mode  in that characters typed by the user are immediately available to
       the program. However, after blocking  for  tenths  tenths  of  seconds,
       halfdelay  returns  ERR if nothing has been typed.  The value of tenths
       must be a number between 1 and 255. Applications call the nocbreak rou‐
       tine to leave half-delay mode.

       If the intrflush routine enables or disables the intrflush option. When
       intrflush is enabled (bf is set to TRUE), all output in the tty	driver
       queue  is  flushed  when	 the user presses an interrupt key (interrupt,
       break, or quit). This  flush  operation	gives  the  effect  of	faster
       response	 to the interrupt but causes Curses to have the wrong image of
       what is on the screen. Disabling the intrflush option  (setting	bf  to
       FALSE)  prevents output in the tty driver queue from being flushed. The
       default for the intrflush option is inherited from the tty driver  set‐
       tings.  The window argument is ignored.

       The keypad routine enables the keypad option associated with the user's
       terminal. If the keypad option is enabled (bf is set to TRUE), the user
       can  press  a  function key (such as an arrow key) and wgetch returns a
       single value representing the function key, as in KEY_LEFT. If the key‐
       pad  is	disabled  (bf is set to FALSE), Curses does not treat function
       keys specially, and the program has to interpret the escape  sequences.
       If  the	keypad in the terminal can be turned on (made to transmit) and
       off (made to work locally), enabling the keypad option causes the  ter‐
       minal  keypad  to be turned on when wgetch is called. The default value
       for keypad is false.

       Initially, whether the terminal returns 7  or  8	 significant  bits  on
       input  depends  on the control mode of the tty driver (see termios(4)).
       To force 8 bits to be returned, applications call meta(win,  TRUE).  To
       force  7	 bits  to be returned, applications call meta(win, FALSE). The
       window argument, win, is always ignored. If the terminfo database capa‐
       bilities smm (meta_on) and rmm (meta_off) are defined for the terminal,
       smm is sent to the terminal when meta(win, TRUE) is called and  rmm  is
       sent when meta(win, FALSE) is called.

       The  nodelay routine enables and disables no delay mode. When this mode
       is enabled (bf is set to TRUE), the call causes getch to be a nonblock‐
       ing  call. In this case, if no input is ready, getch returns ERR. If no
       delay mode is disabled (bf  is  FALSE),	getch  waits  until  the  user
       presses a key.

       While  interpreting an input escape sequence, wgetch sets a timer while
       waiting for the next character. If the application calls notimeout(win,
       TRUE),  then wgetch does not set a timeout interval. The purpose of the
       timeout is to differentiate between sequences received from a  function
       key and those typed by a user.

       The  raw	 and noraw routines place the terminal in and out of raw mode.
       Raw mode is similar to cbreak mode in that  the	typed  characters  are
       immediately  passed through to the user program. The difference is that
       in raw mode, the interrupt, quit, suspend, and flow control  characters
       do  not	generate  a signal but are all passed through uninterpreted to
       the application. The behavior of the Break key depends on other bits in
       the tty driver that are not set by Curses.

       When  applications  use	the  noqiflush routine, Curses sets the NOFLSH
       condition in the tty driver to disable queue flushing. In  this	state,
       the normal flushing of input and output queues associated with the quit
       and interrupt characters is not done. (see termios(4)). When the appli‐
       cation  calls  qiflush,	Curses	flushes	 the  queues when the quit and
       interrupt characters are read.

       The timeout and wtimeout routines set blocking or nonblocking read  for
       a  given	 window.  If delay is negative, blocking read is set; that is,
       the read operation waits indefinitely for input. If delay is zero, then
       nonblocking  read is set; that is, the read operation returns ERR if no
       input is waiting. If delay is positive, then the read operation	blocks
       for  delay  milliseconds,  then returns ERR if there is still no input.
       Therefore, the timeout and wtimeout routines provide the same function‐
       ality  as  nodelay, plus (where delay is positive) the additional capa‐
       bility of being able to block for only a specified number of  millisec‐
       onds.

       Curses  performs	 “line-breakout	 optimization” by looking periodically
       for typeahead input while updating the screen. If input is  found,  and
       it  is  coming  from  a	tty,  Curses postpones the screen update until
       refresh or doupdate is called again. This  optimization	allows	faster
       response	 to  commands  typed in advance. To do the typeahead checking,
       Curses normally uses the input FILE pointer passed to newterm, or stdin
       if initscr was called.  The typeahead routine tells Curses to check for
       typeahead input by using the specified file descriptor, fd.  If	fd  is
       -1, then Curses performs no typeahead checking.

NOTES
       The  header  file  <curses.h>  automatically  includes  the header file
       <stdio.h>.

       Note that echo, noecho, and timeout may be macros.

RETURN VALUES
       All routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure and OK upon
       successful  completion, unless otherwise noted in the preceding routine
       descriptions.

SEE ALSO
       Functions: curses(3), curs_getch(3), curs_initscr(3)

       Files: termios(4)

       Others: standards(5)

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