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use widely differing codes, and often have their own minor quirks.
+ In a world of X displays, one might ask ``why bother''? It's true
+ that character-cell display rerminals are an obsolete technology, but
+ there are niches in which being able to do fancy things with them are
+ still valuable. One is on small-footprint or embedded Unixes that
+ don't carry an X server. Another is for tools like OS installers
+ and kernel configurators that may have to run before X is available.
+
The curses library hides all the details of different terminals, and
provides the programmer with an abstraction of a display, containing
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functions that take either integer or 1-character-string
arguments; these may be useful in writing more readable tests for
! your command interprers. It also supplies conversion functions
that take either integer or 1-character-string arguments and return
the same type. For example, \function{curses.ascii.ctrl()} returns
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functions that take either integer or 1-character-string
arguments; these may be useful in writing more readable tests for
! your command interpreters. It also supplies conversion functions
that take either integer or 1-character-string arguments and return
the same type. For example, \function{curses.ascii.ctrl()} returns
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This HOWTO didn't cover some advanced topics, such as screen-scraping
! or capturing mouse events from an xterm inatance. But the Python
library page for the curses modules is now pretty complete. You
should browse it next.
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This HOWTO didn't cover some advanced topics, such as screen-scraping
! or capturing mouse events from an xterm instance. But the Python
library page for the curses modules is now pretty complete. You
should browse it next.
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The ncurses FAQ: \url{http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html}
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- Any other suggested references?
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