Re: Bug#1053963: RFS: termpaint/0.3.0-3 [RC] -- low level terminal access - headers

2023-10-17 Thread Martin Hostettler
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 06:51:51AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > Likewise, it uses xterm's documentation (and source code) extensively > (such as in termquery.cpp) without mentioning the source of the information. Yes, termquery.cpp is a testing helper shipped in the source that has the need

Re: Bug#1053963: RFS: termpaint/0.3.0-3 [RC] -- low level terminal access - headers

2023-10-17 Thread Martin Hostettler
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 04:51:47AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 02:23:28AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > Could you improve the description? > > > > What does this do? > > > > For me low level access is ioctl, write or similar… > > no - in this case "low level" is a

Re: Bug#1053963: RFS: termpaint/0.3.0-3 [RC] -- low level terminal access - headers

2023-10-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 04:51:47AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 02:23:28AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > Could you improve the description? (needs some work :-) > Unlike the last one on this topic, it uses the terminology of ncurses > without using the word

Re: Bug#1053963: RFS: termpaint/0.3.0-3 [RC] -- low level terminal access - headers

2023-10-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 02:23:28AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > Could you improve the description? > > What does this do? > > For me low level access is ioctl, write or similar… no - in this case "low level" is a synonym for "hard-coded" It's just another of the programs written with the