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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!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!tnt.premier.net!news.uni-c.dk!uninett.no!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: ncurses ??? Date: 21 Jun 1997 16:50:09 -0400 Organization: Panix Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5oheq1$pr4@panix2.panix.com> References: <33A4F87D.167E@luna.net> <87rae2ney2.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> <5o8aln$bvc@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Newsposter: trn 4.0-test55 (26 Feb 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6146 In article <5o8aln$bvc@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>, J.D.Coleman <J.D.Coleman@ncl.ac.uk> wrote: >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. So you've already done that? >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! Well, you let us know when you have the code in a reasonable state, and we'll be glad to review it for inclusion in the tree. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com "American culture, Disneyland freak show -- screen in your living room a window for your tomb -- you can't compare to the world sitting there, repress your insecurities, watching it scared..." -Operation Ivy