Re: curses apps on MS Windows?

2021-06-14 Thread Eryk Sun
On 6/13/21, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Are there examples of popular curses applications for Windows? I don't think are any popular examples. The port of the "nano" editor uses ncurses. https://github.com/lhmouse/nano-win IIRC, PDCurses has better support -- e.g. 256 colors and blinking under Win

Re: curses apps on MS Windows?

2021-06-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On 6/13/21 11:44 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > There's been a surprising amount of discussion lately about using > curses libraries on Windows OS. I'm surprised by this, because I don't > think I've ever even seen a Windows curses application. > > Are there examples of popular curses applications for

Re: curses apps on MS Windows?

2021-06-14 Thread jak
Il 13/06/2021 19:44, Grant Edwards ha scritto: There's been a surprising amount of discussion lately about using curses libraries on Windows OS. I'm surprised by this, because I don't think I've ever even seen a Windows curses application. Are there examples of popular curses applications for Wi

Re: curses apps on MS Windows?

2021-06-14 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/13/2021 1:44 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: Does windows have a terminfo/termcap subsystem to deal with different terminal types? No. AFAIK Or do the apps only work with the built-in terminal windows implemented by command.com/cmd.exe? The windows console is implemented by separate code.