On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 05:43:36PM +0300, Aapo Vienamo wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 03:00:32PM +0300, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > > I think that a new text editor must be created, with text interface (and > > maybe GUI later).
> No, the current situation with terminals and terminal emulators is > full of suck and there already many editors utilizing it. As discussed > on this mailing list in the past, curses sucks, as does implementing > something that really is a GUI by abusing character displays. Terminal I/O is no easy task. The tty layer in UNIX systems is a messy area. Using curses is pretty much the only option and the most sensible. There's a small lib for text programming[0] but at the moment is in its infancy. Some people have mentioned termobox[1] to me but I have never looked at it. BTW, we have sandy[2] too, which admittedly needs some more love. [0] http://git.r-36.net/libvt100/ [1] https://github.com/nsf/termbox/ [2] http://git.suckless.org/sandy/tree/
