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33.Dd August 12, 2002
34.Dt CURSES_DELETELN 3
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm curses_deleteln ,
38.Nm deleteln ,
39.Nm wdeleteln
40.Nd curses delete single line routines
41.Sh LIBRARY
42.Lb libcurses
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Fd #include \*[Lt]curses.h\*[Gt]
45.Ft int
46.Fn deleteln "void"
47.Ft int
48.Fn wdeleteln "WINDOW *win"
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50These functions delete a single line from
51.Dv stdscr
52or from the specified window.
53.Pp
54The
55.Fn deleteln
56function deletes the screen line containing the cursor in the
57.Dv stdscr .
58The
59.Fn wdeleteln
60function is the same as the
61.Fn deleteln
62function, excepting that the line is deleted from the window specified by
63.Fa win .
64.Pp
65All lines following the deleted line are moved up one line toward the cursor.
66The last line of the window is cleared.
67The cursor position is unchanged.
68.Pp
69If a scrolling region has been set with the
70.Fn setscrreg
71or
72.Fn wsetscrreg
73functions and the current cursor position is inside the scrolling region,
74then only the lines from the current line to the bottom of the scrolling
75region are moved up and the bottom line of the scrolling region cleared.
76.Pp
77The functions
78.Fn deleteln
79and
80.Fn wdeleteln win
81are equivalent to
82.Fn winsdelln stdscr \-1
83and
84.Fn winsdelln win \-1
85respectively.
86.Sh RETURN VALUES
87Functions returning pointers will return
88.Dv NULL
89if an error is detected.
90The functions that return an int will return one of the following
91values:
92.Pp
93.Bl -tag -width ERR -compact
94.It Er OK
95The function completed successfully.
96.It Er ERR
97An error occurred in the function.
98.El
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Xr curses_insdelln 3 ,
101.Xr curses_insertln 3 ,
102.Xr curses_scroll 3
103.Sh STANDARDS
104The
105.Nx
106Curses library complies with the X/Open Curses specification, part of the
107Single Unix Specification.
108.Sh HISTORY
109The Curses package appeared in
110.Bx 4.0 .
111