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From: | Lennart Jablonka |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH v3] [grotty]: Use terminfo. |
Date: | Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:26:09 +0000 |
Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
ACK. I've gotten a bit sidetracked learning more about terminfo and ncurses...and a dreaded, predictable thing happened. I found the existing ncurses documentation frustrating and started rewriting it. (This is how groff got stuck with me.) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2023-09/index.html
Heh. Please don’t abandon poor Groff’s docs in favor of ncurses.
Fortunately, ncurses is attentively maintained. So instead of sucking up a whole bunch of oxygen there as I did with groff, I found that it behooves me to actually read the X/Open Issue 7 standard for curses. That is a 420-page document, so it's taking some time to absorb.
Luckily, as grotty needs terminfo only, I didn’t need to read all the non-terminfo parts.
How would you feel if I created a feature branch for grotty-terminfo?
If it somehow helps people to have it in the upstream repo even before putting it on master, go ahead.
I'm traveling this week so my pace is slowed a bit.
ACK
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