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* On 2005.09.09, in <20050909195846.GC16084@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.xx.xx>, * "David Cantrell" <david@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote: > > Lots and lots of others too. I kinda assumed that the curses library > should handle all that, but if I read Brother Champion correctly, it's > at least partially up to the application. And if that's the case, some > curses library person needs shootin'. Or at least it can be. I suspect you *can* leave this wholly up to the library, but if so, it's not required. I'm no expert on curses, but I've seen more than one app that just blithely prints \033[34m whenever it wants blue, and I know that curses has a set of routines for judging the terminal's color capabilities -- see curs_color(3,3CURSES,3x,etc), and insert a placeholder hate for all the idiot man command variations and the disagreement on what a "section" means. And, yes, guiltily I have written such applications. Why? Because curses is a PITA, and curses from, say, perl even moreso. And nobody uses my code either. -- -D. dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx NSIT University of ChicagoThere's stuff above here
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