Re: readline-like program

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, James Strother wrote:

> This sets the WINDOW size to the physical screen size, which is not
> what I want.  I want the rest of the terminal to be unaffected with
> just a single terminal-input line at the end.  I tried (and tried..)
> various combinations of setupterm and newwin, but I couldn't quite
> get it to work.  Is there a "curses" way to do this or am I stuck
> using termcap?

Generally curses deals with full-screen stuff (in part because some 
terminals used to behave radically different in full-screen vs 
command-line).  It does implement a function "filter()", which tells
ncurses to limit itself to a single line.  There's an example in the
ncurses sources (test/filter.c) which demonstrates this.

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