Guillermo:
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There is a |curses.h| file in both Void's 'standard' headers
directory and in a subdirectory named '|ncursesw|' (for the narrow
character and wide character versions of the library,
respectively). Normally, that would be |/usr/include/curses.h| and
|/usr/include/ncursesw/curses.h|.
On that score: Those of you who have peeked at 1.38 will possibly have
noticed the manual for the new |console-termio-realizer| command, which
has a section explaining how it realizes onto terminals. I have some
things that I am mulling over.
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The |chkservice| command (also new, and which you might also have
spotted) uses wide character ncurses. I am wondering whether it
should employ |console-termio-realizer|'s mechanism instead.
* The |monitor-fsck-progress| command uses wide character ncurses, but
there is no real use case for it running against a terminal that
does not understand ECMA48 control sequences. I am wondering
whether it should employ |console-termio-realizer|'s mechanism instead.
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The only programs that do not explicitly use /wide-character/
ncurses (and so require the additional slightly different
development tooling) are |service-status|, and the |start|, |stop|,
and |reset| subcommands of |system-control|. And they only employ
it for colourization, which the ncurses and terminfo models aren't
particularly good for in the first place. I am wondering whether
they too should employ |console-termio-realizer|'s mechanism instead.
The general upshot would be that only |console-ncurses-realizer| ends up
using wide character ncurses. Only the one place for patches, and only
the one flavour of curses; with the tradeoffs that are given in the
|console-termio-realizer| manual.
