On 10/27/2016 1:49 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>:
On 10/26/2016 8:33 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Maybe there should be some way to get the raw events from the PTY.
PTY? Must be Linux-specific. Most beginners are not on Linux.
A PTY is an emulated console (<URL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoterminal>). I don't know Windows but
I would guess cmd.exe does something similar there.
Also, I have no statistics on most beginning programmers operating
systems.
But what would be wrong in a GUI PTY API? No windowing,
'No windowing'? Python normally runs in a text widget in a window,
programmed to emulate a dumb terminal.
Must be Windows-specific.
Not as I meant the above.
When I used unix in the 1980s, the full screen ran csh until one started
another full screen application. MSDOS was the same. Every contemporary
photo of modern Linux or Mac I have seen has a desktop with windows just
like Windows. Do people on Linux still commonly use full-screen, no
window text editors like the one I had? On Windows, there are full
screen games, but I have never seen a full-screen, no-window text
application.
Since modern screen are pixel graphics screens, rather than character
screens, there must be a widget, whether standard with the OS or custom
to the console, that emulates the old fixed-pitch character screens. At
least on Windows, C Programs that run with the console still get
characters entered by users and send characters to be displayed.
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