how to enable vertical sync in opengl?

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How do you enable vertical sync?

Is it something simple like glEnable(GL_VSYNC)? (though there's no such thing as GL_VSYNC or anything like it in the options that glEnable accepts).

or is there no standard way to do this in opengl?

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