In article <20171108210902.ga...@internode.on.net>, Brett Lymn <bl...@internode.on.net> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 01:04:31AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> >> Even if we become bug compatible, we should keep a mode (via environment >> or program setting) that warns when we are asked to do something >> unspecified or different than the standard, or even behaves the way the >> standard mandates. >> > >In theory this would be a good strategy but, unfortunately, we are >talking about a library that is layered over the top of curses. There >really is no sane way of printing something to the screen that will not >either be invisible or mess up the layout of the terminal. We could add >it as a debug but even that is unlikely to be seen.
We can add something that saves the contents of the screen, clears the screen prints the message, waits for a <enter> and then restores the screen. christos
