Fwd: RE: ncurses support for Jed

[Tong Sun <mlist4suntong@xxxxxxxxx>]

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--- "Olesen, Mark" <Mark.Olesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "Olesen, Mark" <Mark.Olesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: '- Tong -' <mlist4suntong@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE:  ncurses support for Jed
> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 22:53:17 +0200 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To save John's blood pressure a bit, I figure that I should reply.
> 
> > I know that Jed is normally used by people who don't use X. However,
> 
> I'm not sure of the general statistics, but I personally have very rarely
> use Jed on non-X11 systems in the past 13 years. I mostly use xjed, but
> occasionally use the standard jed in a terminal window (mrxvt). Indeed it
> was Jed that originally got me involved with rxvt.
> 
> > So, I'm wondering how difficult is it for Jed to wrap screen I/O with
> > ncurses, so as to have mouse support under terminals. 
> 
> I haven't looked into it for quite a while, but the xterm mouse
> functionality in the jed/lib/mousex.sl still seems to be intact. Perhaps
> your TERM env variable is set to something funny that is preventing
> mousex.sl from getting loaded?
> Note however, that while the normal mouse selection should work, the mouse
> hilite tracking mode (drag and report mode) may not work with many terminal
> emulators.
> 
> > I.e., Is there
> > any plan to use ncurses in future?
> 
> I really can't imagine that happening very soon (or ever).
> The S-Lang screen management routines provide an alternative interface to
> ncurses. Indeed the routines have (or had) a curses API for porting curses
> applications.
> 
> /mark
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