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- Subject: Re: [newbie] terminal handling facilities
- From: David Given <dg@...>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:59:59 +0100
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 23:05, Aaron Brown wrote:
> This plus
> knowledge of the terminal's escape sequences for cursor
> positioning etc. (which I believe are fairly standardized on
> modern terminals) is all that's needed to write a
> Curses-style program.
What about SIGWINCH? Without that, your programs will be extremely antisocial.
I know this isn't what you want to hear, but as someone who uses terminals
extensively, *please* use curses! Or at least termcap, which is easier to
interface to, but is much more irritating to use. But either way, you'll
still need --- somehow --- to trap SIGWINCH...
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