On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 05:46:57PM +0000, Robin Haberkorn via Bug reports for ncurses, the GNU implementation of curses wrote: > On Thu Jan 22, 2026 at 06:30:19 GMT +01, Jared Finder wrote: > > Looking at https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html, I > > think more terminals could list support for Smol and Rmol to toggle > > overline mode. I have tested locally that the following terminals > > support overline and are not listed as such: > > ... > > Are these capabilities exposed by ncurses as well (A_TOP)? > Is there any terminal where we could actually box texts with > A_LEFT, A_RIGHT, A_ROW and A_TOP?
not to my knowledge :-) imho those were generated by a committee. > btw. Some terminals nowadays have squiggles and strike-through > as well. I always wondered why this didn't make it right through > to ncurses. a few do, but look at the allocated bits (adding stuff would be an ABI change) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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