On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:36:00 +0000, druck wrote:
> On 09/01/2021 15:49, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> Curses is purest C - it sits on top of the termcap functions and adds
>> capabilities like pop-up subwindows
>
> It also uses y,x coordinates which drives me up the wall!
>
But so does termcap - no getting away from that if you want simple and
formatted output direct to the console
-unless you're going to follow TNP's lead and just spit HTML text at Lynx
or the web browser of your choice.
- or use PHP to do pretty much the same thing, though this will probably
result in a more complex program structure if what it does is
non-trivial.
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