Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library
John Goerzen left as an exercise for the reader:
> Very cool! (and apologies for missing it in the readme)
no problem at all; i merely wanted to highlight its existence,
as it has a great deal of information (i'm trying to properly
bear the torch of Thomas E. Dickey, who as ncurses maintainer
has written one of the all-time great bits of software
documentation in his NCURSES FAQ).
> I have been rather annoyed at the increasing number of curses-like
> libraries that only work with ANSI terminals. It is refreshing to see a
> new one that properly supports terminfo!
you can credit Mr. Dickey with this. i was inspired to start
work on notcurses last November after reading Lexi Summer Hale's
essay "On Temrinal Emulators" (http://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html).
one of the things i disagreed with her on was the value of
terminfo support, something Mr. Dickey states numerous times in
his FAQ.
> I own a number of actual serial terminals from the 80s and 90s and
> actively use them in various projects. They of course know nothing of
> Unicode (another challenge) or color, but otherwise are still quite
> functional.
i am the owner of no such devices, and any testing you can
perform on them would be invaluable to me :D. i will eagerly
move to fix problems you run into. so long as you're not
providing supraASCII characters for output, you needn't worry
about them being emitted.
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