It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated:
>
> On occasion, I still use an editor that I wrote for CP/M and later
> ported to DOS. 11KB and it has lots of features that are peculiar to my
> preferences. I'd thought about porting it to Linux, but currently, it's
> still in assembly and dealing with terminfo or curses is not something
> that I look forward to. So I use Joe.
I've come to the conclusion [1] that terminfo and curses aren't needed any
more. If you target VT100 (or Xterm or any other derivative) and directly
write ANSI sequences, it'll just work. It's a few lines of code to get the
current TTY (on any modern Unix system) into raw mode in order to read
characters [2].
-spc (Of course, then you have to deal with escape sequences, which can
get messy ... )
[1] Bias most likely from my own usage. Mileage may vary here on this
list where all sorts of odd-ball systems are still in use 8-P
[2] It's six lines to get an open TTY into raw mode, one line to restore
upon exit. Add in a few more lines to handle SIGWINCH (window
resize). *Much* easier than dealing with curses.
