From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jared Finder" <jared@finder.org>,
"G . Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] TIOCLINUX.2const: Restructure documentation for TIOCL_SETSEL selection modes
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:30:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250330143038.4184-4-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250330143038.4184-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com>
* Indent the documented selection modes into tagged paragraphs.
* Document constants from the header file (tiocl.h) instead of numbers.
* Clarify expansion semantics as suggested by Jared Finder.
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
---
man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
index c0acdd0ea..f2c8d0720 100644
--- a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
+++ b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
@@ -65,11 +65,26 @@ are the ending
column and row.
(Upper left corner is row=column=1.)
.I sel_mode
-is 0 for character-by-character selection,
-1 for word-by-word selection,
-or 2 for line-by-line selection.
-The indicated screen characters are highlighted and saved
-in a kernel buffer.
+may be one of the following operations:
+.RS
+.TP
+.B TIOCL_SELCHAR
+Select character-by-character.
+The indicated screen characters are highlighted
+and saved in a kernel buffer.
+.TP
+.B TIOCL_SELWORD
+Select word-by-word,
+expanding the selection outwards to align with word boundaries.
+The indicated screen characters are highlighted
+and saved in a kernel buffer.
+.TP
+.B TIOCL_SELLINE
+Select line-by-line,
+expanding the selection outwards to select full lines.
+The indicated screen characters are highlighted
+and saved in a kernel buffer.
+.RE
.IP
Since Linux 6.7, using this subcode requires the
.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
--
2.49.0
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-30 14:30 [PATCH v4 0/2] TIOCLINUX.2const: Document TIOCL_SETSEL selection modes Günther Noack
2025-03-30 14:30 ` Günther Noack [this message]
2025-03-30 14:30 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] TIOCLINUX.2const: Document missing " Günther Noack
2025-03-31 8:15 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] TIOCLINUX.2const: Document " Alejandro Colomar
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