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33.Dd February 5, 2006
34.Dt CURSES_INSERTLN 3
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm curses_insertln ,
38.Nm insertln ,
39.Nm winsertln
40.Nd curses insert single line routines
41.Sh LIBRARY
42.Lb libcurses
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.In curses.h
45.Ft int
46.Fn insertln "void"
47.Ft int
48.Fn winsertln "WINDOW *win"
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50These functions insert a single line on
51.Dv stdscr
52or on the specified window.
53.Pp
54The
55.Fn insertln
56function inserts a blank line before the current line on
57.Dv stdscr .
58The current line and all lines below are moved down one line away from
59the cursor and the bottom line of the window is lost.
60.Pp
61The
62.Fn winsertln
63function is the same as the
64.Fn insertln
65function, excepting that the line is inserted on the window
66.Fa win .
67.Pp
68If a scrolling region has been set with the
69.Fn setscrreg
70or
71.Fn wsetscrreg
72functions and the current cursor position is inside the scrolling region,
73then only the lines from the current line to the bottom of the scrolling
74region are moved down and the bottom line of the scrolling region lost.
75.Pp
76The functions
77.Fn insertln
78and
79.Fn winsertln win
80are equivalent to
81.Fn insdelln 1
82and
83.Fn winsdelln win 1 ,
84respectively.
85.Sh RETURN VALUES
86Functions returning pointers will return
87.Dv NULL
88if an error is detected.
89The functions that return an int will return one of the following
90values:
91.Pp
92.Bl -tag -width ERR -compact
93.It Er OK
94The function completed successfully.
95.It Er ERR
96An error occurred in the function.
97.El
98.Sh SEE ALSO
99.Xr curses_deleteln 3 ,
100.Xr curses_insdelln 3 ,
101.Xr curses_scroll 3
102.Sh STANDARDS
103The
104.Nx
105Curses library complies with the X/Open Curses specification, part of
106the Single Unix Specification.
107.Sh HISTORY
108The Curses package appeared in
109.Bx 4.0 .
110