you may probably want to look at my r_cons and r_line libraries from r2. i do buffering, autocomplete, screen filling, and works on w32 console, and most of terminals (st, xterm...) without guessing the termcodes. i just hardcode them.
http://radare.org On Feb 9, 2012, at 18:02, Chris Siebenmann <c...@cs.toronto.edu> wrote: > | Writing a saner library than ncurses that knows only st and try to > | convince other terminal emulator writers to do the same: support > | exactly the same sequences. > > Replacing ncurses with a hardcoded library is not a workable approach. > > Unix systems today are accessed from far more environments than simply > X Windows terminal emulators. Even if all such programs were updated > to the new escape sequences, an ncurses-equivalent library that only > supports them would not work for everyone ssh'ing in to Unix systems > from Mac OS X, from Windows, from various smartphones and other devices, > and for those quixotic people who are still using real serial terminals > (or in some cases emulations of them). More precisely, any program that > used this new library would be nonfunctional for such people. > > - cks >
