In article <20191007084346.gc24...@bastion.zyxst.net> you wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 03:07:16PM +0100, tech-lists wrote:
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> 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.