menu_name(3MENU)

💖 menu_name — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is menu_name(3MENU), from the ncurses library calls era, and honestly? it's a lil baby page but it's iconic and we're gonna stan it properly.

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✨ NAME ✨

item_name, item_description — the girls that go get you the menu item's name and description fields 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <menu.h>

const char *item_name(const ITEM *item);
const char *item_description(const ITEM *item);

like. two functions. that's the whole vibe. we love a minimal queen 👑

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so item_name hands you back the name part of the item you passed in. that's it. that's the job.

and item_description does the same lil trick but for the description part of the given item. 🎀

they're literally just getters. no drama, no side quests, no chaos. just reading fields off an ITEM. periodt. ✨

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🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

these routines return a pointer — and lowkey, that pointer may be NULL, so like, vibe check it before you go dereferencing bestie, fr fr. 😭

and the important bit: they do not set errno. nope. not touching it. not their business. 💀

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🧚 PORTABILITY 🧚

these routines emulate the System V menu library. that's the energy they're giving.

they were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions — so if you're kicking it old-school BSD, sorry babe, no menu name for you 🙈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Juergen Pfeifer. 💜

Manual pages and adaptation for new curses by Eric S. Raymond.

(genuinely, thank you to both of them, absolute main character energy from the ncurses crew, no cap 🫶)

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• ncurses(3NCURSES)
• menu(3MENU)

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bestie reminder: this whole page is a two-function situation, so if you're expecting 40 options you came to the wrong party — but everything that was here is here, so we're good. 💖

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🌸 that's the page! brought to you by ncurses 6.6, dated 2024-12-28, filed under menu_name(3MENU). mwah 💋 slay, go read your menu items. ✨🎀🦋