On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 11:30:23AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> ncurses(3X) says:
>      --with-termlib
>           Provide ncurses’s lower‐level terminal interface functions
>           (those that do not depend on the SCREEN and WINDOW
>           abstractions) in a library named tinfo.
> ...
>           The following pages document curses functions provided by
>           tinfo.

...and most of the functions in that manpage are in tinfo

> ...
>           •   inopts(3X) - curses input options

echo/noecho still fall into the description "curses input options"
 
> And inopts(3X) says:
>      int echo(void);
>      int noecho(void);
> 
> ...but these symbols are not in the tinfo library.

...a paragraph explaining that these are actually high-level curses
functions because they're tied to wgetch, would be fine.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net

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