Exploring terminfo

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jan 14 19:49:06 EST 2021


On 14/01/2021 22:11, Grant Edwards wrote:

> Or use a terminfo library:
> 
>   https://github.com/DirectXMan12/py-terminfo
> 
> It _may_ be possible to use ncurses to get the terminfo strings
> required for various functions without actually having ncurses to any
> I/O, but I've never tried that...

That is precisely what the tiXXX family of functions in
the curses module is supposed to enable. I'm just struggling
to get anything other than very basic stuff working!

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