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Re: [PATCH v3] [grotty]: Use terminfo.


From: Lennart Jablonka
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] [grotty]: Use terminfo.
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 23:57:08 +0000

Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
ACK.  I've gotten a bit sidetracked learning more about terminfo and
ncurses...and a dreaded, predictable thing happened.

I found the existing ncurses documentation frustrating and started
rewriting it.  (This is how groff got stuck with me.)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2023-09/index.html

Fortunately, ncurses is attentively maintained.  So instead of sucking
up a whole bunch of oxygen there as I did with groff, I found that it
behooves me to actually read the X/Open Issue 7 standard for curses.

That is a 420-page document, so it's taking some time to absorb.

Since you wrote this, every now and then I’ve looked at the ncurses-bug archives, scrolling through some of your patches. That’s a little fun.

If you haven’t finished rewriting the ncurses manual yet, are you perchance done absorbing X/Open Curses? You know, just in case you want to take another look at that patch I sent a while ago. For grotty. To use terminfo.



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