Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2007-05-09, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Towards a better solution: how straightforward do you think it'll be to >> talk the ncurses guys into adding support for some of screen's >> extensions? AFAIK, the only one I care about is the xterm mouse support; >> another interesting one is a boolean "supports ansi >> setforeground/setbackground codes"; but I usually infer this (if >> necessary) from the presence of setaf/setbf (not a given, but...). > > "The ncurses guys" is Thomas Dickey, who frequents a number of lists > and newsgroups, and who would probably be willing to discuss it > with you. Contact information is here: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ > > Look for "Who's Who and What's What". You might also consider > joining the bug-ncurses-request mailing list, which is "open to > anyone interested in helping with the development and testing of > this package."
Thanks for that! > I would imagine the process would be more a matter of convincing > Thomas to accept the concept, the design, and any patches you would > submit, rather than "the ncurses guys" adding this support > themselves. Fair enough. :) -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/
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