In article <[email protected]> you wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 03:07:16PM +0100, tech-lists wrote: > [...] > > thanks for the pointers. Does slang have any advantages over ncurses though? I > have both, and use slang in slrn. There is ncurses in the OS and a later > version is in ports (FreeBSD)
slang is a scripting language and can be extended, if you are a power user you can extend programs using the embeded slang interpreter. curses/ncurses is used by most unix terminal programs, it's universal in unix systems.
