Fix el_{w,}getc documentation (Ingo Schwarze)
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.\" $NetBSD: editline.3,v 1.86 2016/02/24 18:28:54 christos Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: editline.3,v 1.87 2016/02/24 19:45:48 christos Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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@ -173,6 +173,16 @@ library (which needs the
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library).
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Programs should be linked with
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.Fl ledit ltermcap .
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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library respects the
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.Dv LC_CTYPE
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locale set by the application program and never uses
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.Xr setlocale 3
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to change the locale.
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The only locales supported are UTF-8 and the default C or POSIX locale.
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If any other locale is set, behaviour is undefined.
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.Sh LINE EDITING FUNCTIONS
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The line editing functions use a common data structure,
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.Fa EditLine ,
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The return value may not remain valid across calls to
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.Fn el_gets
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and must be copied if the data is to be retained.
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.It Fn el_wgetc
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Read a wide character from the tty, respecting the current locale,
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or from the input stream written by
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.Fn el_wpush
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and
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.Fn el_push
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if that is not empty, and store it in
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.Fa ch .
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If an invalid or incomplete character is found, it is discarded,
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.Va errno
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is set to
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.Dv EILSEQ ,
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and the next character is read and stored in
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.Fa ch .
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Returns 1 if a valid character was read, 0 on end of file, or -1 on
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.Xr read 2
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failure.
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In the latter case,
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.It Fn el_getc
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Read a character from the tty.
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.Fa ch
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is modified to contain the character read.
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Returns the number of characters read if successful, \-1 otherwise,
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in which case
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.Dv errno
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can be inspected for the cause.
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Read a wide character as described for
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.Fn el_wgetc
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and return 0 on end of file or -1 on failure.
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If the wide character can be represented as a single-byte character,
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convert it with
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.Xr wctob 3 ,
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store the result in
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.Fa ch ,
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and return 1; otherwise, set
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.Va errno
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to
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.Dv ERANGE
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and return -1.
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In the C or POSIX locale, this simply reads a byte, but for any other
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locale, including UTF-8, this is rarely useful.
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.It Fn el_push
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Pushes
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.Fa str
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