Replacing curses

Thomas Dickey dickey at saltmine.radix.net
Thu Feb 9 06:43:02 EST 2006


Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:

> I'm going to look at the Mined text editor for some terminal behavior

mined_2000 (there's more than one program named mined, and the other
doesn't do UTF-8).

> detection code.  Mined is able to produce good UTF-8 output on a variety
> of terminals, and it links agains ncurses, not ncursesw...  Interesting.

It's probably using termcap (and the wide-character functions declared
in wchar.h).

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