Bug#887312: ITP: libtickit -- Terminal Interface Construction KIT

[James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>

* Package name    : libtickit
  Version         : 0.2
  Upstream Author : Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
* URL             : http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libtickit/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Terminal Interface Construction KIT

This library provides an abstracted mechanism for building interactive
full-screen terminal programs. It provides a full set of output drawing
functions, and handles keyboard and mouse input events.
.
Using this library, applications can
.
 * Divide the terminal into a heirarchy of nested, possibly-overlapping
   rectangular windows
 * Render output content and react to input events independently in any
   window region
 * Use fully Unicode-aware string content, including non-BMP, fullwidth
   and combining characters
 * Draw line-art using Unicode box-drawing characters in a variety of
   styles
 * Operate synchronously or asynchronously via file descriptors, or
   abstractly via byte buffers
 * Recognise arbitrary keyboard input, including modifiers*
 * Make use of multiple terminals, if availble, from a single
   application
.
The following terminal features are supported (depending on terminal
support):
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 * Many rendering attributes; bold, italics*, underline, reverse, strikethough*, alternate font*
 * 256 and 24-bit (16million) colours*
 * Mouse including mouse wheel and recognition of position reporting greater than 224 columns*
 * Arbitrary scrolling regions*

This is going to be a dependency of neovim, once required functionality
finishes being implemented.  It will replace the libtermkey usage in
neovim.