On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:15:42PM -0800, Joey Hess was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to > > actually > > catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it). So (a) if curses > > (and > > slang?) were modified to handle this, most programs would inherit the > > changes, > > and (b) even among the programs that do their own termcap handling, most > > wouldn't be affected. > > Hm, I've written slang programs that catch escape, not to mention jed > catches escape, and there are certianly a large number of curses programs > that do - all falvors of vi (of course!), dialog, and probably a slew more.
Oops, you're right. It still seems, though, that Curses should be able to buffer the programs from the fact that the hypothetical "xterm-sane" escapes escape this way.. Daniel -- "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect." -- "The Princess Bride"