Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-03 Thread Nick Black
John Goerzen left as an exercise for the reader: > 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 might also be pleased to learn that notcurses, unlike so m

Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-03 Thread Nick Black
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

Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
Very cool! (and apologies for missing it in the readme) 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! I own a number of actual serial terminals from the 80s and

Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-03 Thread Nick Black
Your questions are answered in the README.md, I believe: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses Yes, it is powered by (and requires) Terminfo. It ought work, more or less, with all terminals capable of cursor-based addressing ("cup" Terminfo capability). It quantizes color down at the moment i

Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
Hi Nick, This is interesting. Out of curiosity, does notcurses still support terminfo and provide a functional implementation on non-ANSI terminals? (eg, IBM3151, etc) On Sun, Feb 02 2020, Nick Black wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Nick Black > > * Package name: not

Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-02 Thread Nick Black
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nick Black * Package name: notcurses Version : 1.1.4 Upstream Author : Nick Black * URL : https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/notcurses * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C, C++, Python Description :