Re: xterm/gnome-terminal rectangular area sequences

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:36:38AM -0700, xetum wrote:
> 
> Thanks Thomas for your promptly response. Just a last question.
> 
> If rectangle operations aren't widely available, how come does ncurses
> implement e.g. attron?

attron's been in ncurses since the 1990s because it is part of X/Open curses.
ncurses implements this without using rectangle mode.

> The only solution I can think of is to have a backup buffer for the console,
> change attributes for the rectangle of interest leaving characters untouched
> and then reprinting chars+attrs to the console. Am I right?

ncurses does this by storing current and pending screen contents in
buffers (called WINDOW's).

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