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42<H1 class="no-header">curs_move 3x 2024-04-27 ncurses 6.5 Library calls</H1>
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44<STRONG><A HREF="curs_move.3x.html">curs_move(3x)</A></STRONG>                    Library calls                   <STRONG><A HREF="curs_move.3x.html">curs_move(3x)</A></STRONG>
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49</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
50       <STRONG>move</STRONG>, <STRONG>wmove</STRONG> - move cursor in a <EM>curses</EM> window
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53</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
54       <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
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56       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>move(int</STRONG> <EM>y</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>x</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
57       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wmove(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>y</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>x</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
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61       <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>  relocates  the  cursor  associated with the <EM>curses</EM> window <EM>win</EM> to
62       line <EM>y</EM> and column  <EM>x</EM>.   The  terminal's  cursor  does  not  move  until
63       <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>  is  called.   The position (<EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>) is relative to the upper
64       left-hand  corner  of  the  window,  which  has   coordinates   (0, 0).
65       <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG> describes the <STRONG>move</STRONG> variant of this function.
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68</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
69       These functions return <STRONG>OK</STRONG> on success and <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> on failure.
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71       They fail if the position (<EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>) is outside the window boundaries.
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73       <STRONG>wmove</STRONG> fails if its <EM>WINDOW</EM> pointer argument is <STRONG>NULL</STRONG>.
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77       <STRONG>move</STRONG> may be implemented as a macro.
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80</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
81       X/Open Curses, Issue 4 describes these functions.
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84</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
85       <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>
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89ncurses 6.5                       2024-04-27                     <STRONG><A HREF="curs_move.3x.html">curs_move(3x)</A></STRONG>
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