Re: A colouring api that doesn't suck

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 07:42:45PM +0000, Elijah wrote:
> /This is causing people to stop using ncurses./  Partly, they are using 
> alternatives such as termbox (https://github.com/nsf/termbox), but more 

by the way, applications using hard-coded escapes are not topical.

> frequently what I see (and have to write all too often) is something 
> like this (pseudocode):

This is addressed in the FAQ -

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#backlog

(you can certainly write and maintain an add-on library to do what's suggested)

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