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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!delos.dra.hmg.gb!server1.netnews.ja.net!warwick!news.ncl.ac.uk!aire.ncl.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: "J.D.Coleman" <J.D.Coleman@ncl.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: ncurses ??? Date: 18 Jun 1997 09:44:23 GMT Organization: Computing Service, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <5o8aln$bvc@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> References: <33A4F87D.167E@luna.net> <87rae2ney2.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: aire.ncl.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6132 I wrote: > So why not develop 4.4 curses further? J Wunsch (j@ida.interface-business.de) replied: : It lacks the entire keyboard handling machine, and the graphics : capabilities are fairly inferior. It can't even draw a box with the : alternate characterset. Yes. These things can be added. It also doesn't have support for text attributes (apart from bold/standout) but that wasn't too difficult to add. I'm not sure that using the alternate character set is useful - but then a fair number of current terminals are vt100 based, so it could be nice for them. : OTOH, ncurses IMHO suffers creeping featurism, and has been shooting : far beyond its goal to produce a SysV-curses lookalike. The last : detail i stumpled across when debugging Mutt's resize problem was that : it installs a SIGWINCH handler -- something SysV never does. Sounds like a good reason to work on curses to me! J