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33.Dd February 5, 2006
34.Dt CURSES_INSERTCH 3
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm curses_insert ,
38.Nm insch ,
39.Nm winsch ,
40.Nm mvinsch ,
41.Nm mvwinsch
42.Nd curses insert characters routines
43.Sh LIBRARY
44.Lb libcurses
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.In curses.h
47.Ft int
48.Fn insch "chtype ch"
49.Ft int
50.Fn winsch "WINDOW *win" "chtype ch"
51.Ft int
52.Fn mvinsch "int y" "int x" "chtype ch"
53.Ft int
54.Fn mvwinsch "WINDOW *win" "int y" "int x" "chtype ch"
55.Sh DESCRIPTION
56These functions insert characters on
57.Dv stdscr
58or on the specified window.
59.Pp
60The
61.Fn insch
62function inserts the character given in
63.Fa ch
64at the current cursor position on
65.Dv stdscr .
66The cursor is not advanced and wrapping is not performed.
67.Pp
68The
69.Fn winsch
70function is the same as the
71.Fn insch
72function, excepting that the character is inserted on the window specified by
73.Fa win .
74.Pp
75The
76.Fn mvinsch
77and
78.Fn mvwinsch
79functions are the same as the
80.Fn insch
81and
82.Fn insch
83functions, respectively, excepting that
84.Fn wmove
85is called to move the cursor to the position specified by
86.Fa y ,
87.Fa x
88before the character is inserted on the window.
89.Sh RETURN VALUES
90Functions returning pointers will return
91.Dv NULL
92if an error is detected.
93The functions that return an int will return one of the following
94values:
95.Pp
96.Bl -tag -width ERR -compact
97.It Er OK
98The function completed successfully.
99.It Er ERR
100An error occurred in the function.
101.El
102.Sh SEE ALSO
103.Xr curses_addch 3 ,
104.Xr curses_cursor 3 ,
105.Xr curses_delch 3
106.Sh STANDARDS
107The
108.Nx
109Curses library complies with the X/Open Curses specification, part of
110the Single Unix Specification.
111.Sh HISTORY
112The Curses package appeared in
113.Bx 4.0 .
114