Bob Miller
Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:55:02 -0800
Neil Parker wrote: > By the way, if you've ever used any full-screen software on the text > screen (or xterm/konsole/gnome-terminal window), chances are it does its > full-screen stuff by using the "curses" library. Well, apparently the > original version of the curses library was also written by Bill Joy, and > he made it by ripping his screen-handling code out of vi and wrapping it > up as a separate library.
It was my understanding that wnj wrote termcap vi, but Ken Arnold pulled the screen handling parts of vi out to form curses. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug