Re: lynx-dev horizontal scrolling stuff

[T.E.Dickey]

> That's not *at all* the same.   This is all still in the text only domain, so 
> it's much much much more comparable.  I don't know about the "multiple 
> windows" 
> part, but I believe you can make a curses "window" larger than the actual 
> screen, then scroll around within it.  (Sort of like the currently viewed 
> part of a grafport.) 
In SVr4 curses (ncurses) that's called a "pad".  There's an example in
the ncurses test program (also named 'ncurses').  That would have to be
ifdef'd to accommodate the older versions of curses (I see that pdcurses
supports this, but doubt that VAX curses did) as well as slang (doubtless
it supports something analogous, but with a different calling interface.


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