8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
1:56 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated:
On occasion, I still use an editor that I wrote for CP/M and later
ported to DOS. 11KB and it has lots of features that are peculiar to my
preferences. I'd thought about porting it to Linux, but currently, it's
still in assembly and dealing with terminfo or curses is not something
that I look forward to. So I use Joe.
I've come to the conclusion [1] that terminfo and curses aren't needed any
more. If you target VT100 (or Xterm or any other derivative) and directly
write ANSI sequences, it'll just work. It's a few lines of code to get the
current TTY (on any modern Unix system) into raw mode in order to read
characters [2].
-spc (Of course, then you have to deal with escape sequences, which can
get messy ... )
[1] Bias most likely from my own usage. Mileage may vary here on this
list where all sorts of odd-ball systems are still in use 8-P
[2] It's six lines to get an open TTY into raw mode, one line to restore
upon exit. Add in a few more lines to handle SIGWINCH (window
resize). *Much* easier than dealing with curses.