On 29/06/2014, Dimitris Papastamos <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
The deeper problem here is that emulating a typewriter loses. > Some people have mentioned termobox[1] to me but I > have never looked at it. Mind: https://github.com/nsf/termbox/commit/66c3f91b14e24510319bce6b5cc2fecf8cf5abff#commitcomment-3790714 > BTW, we have sandy[2] too, which admittedly needs some more love. I use this. Yep, it's quite rough. I have some local modifications, some which I shall post here.
