cs00jec@unccvax.uncc.edu (Jim Cain v2.0.1) (11/04/90)
I am writing a screen editor as a senior project (please no evangilizations on vi/emacs/etc). What terminals should it support, just in case I don't use standard termcaps and instead write my own? (I will most likely use curses etc but just in case) All we use here are Wyse 60's (and a few awful TVI 920's in a corner somewhere). Have most places moved up to the more modern terminals, such as the Wyse, TVI 955, etc.? I really don't know because I'm not familiar with anywhere other than school. (We did use TVI 925's in high school, and they were testing Wyse terms for purchase when I graduated, but that was eons ago.) Thanks in advance for input.
hitz@auspex.auspex.com (Dave Hitz) (11/04/90)
In article <2908@unccvax.uncc.edu> cs00jec@unccvax.uncc.edu (Jim Cain v2.0.1) writes: > I am writing a screen editor as a senior project (please no evangilizations > on vi/emacs/etc). What terminals should it support, just in case I don't > use standard termcaps and instead write my own? (I will most likely use > curses etc but just in case) The file /etc/termcap contains a list of terminals your editor should support. Consider this an argument in favor of using termcap(3) or curses(3). -- Dave Hitz work: 408-492-0900 UUCP: {uunet,mips,sun,bridge2}!auspex!hitz home: 408-739-7116
paul@ixi.uucp (Paul Davey) (11/09/90)
In article <4241@auspex.auspex.com> hitz@auspex.auspex.com (Dave Hitz) writes: In article <2908@unccvax.uncc.edu> cs00jec@unccvax.uncc.edu (Jim Cain v2.0.1) writes: > I am writing a screen editor as a senior project (please no evangilizations > on vi/emacs/etc). What terminals should it support, just in case I don't > use standard termcaps and instead write my own? (I will most likely use > curses etc but just in case) The file /etc/termcap contains a list of terminals your editor should support. Consider this an argument in favor of using termcap(3) or curses(3). You might also include X terminals - ie give full X support, not just running it in an Xterm. -- Regards, pd@x.co.uk IXI Limited Paul Davey pd@ixi.uucp 62-74 Burleigh St. ...!uunet!ixi!pd Cambridge U.K. "These are interesting times" +44 223 462 131 CB1 1OJ
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (11/10/90)
In article <PAUL.90Nov8174414@cheshire.ixi.uucp> paul@ixi.uucp (Paul Davey) writes: > Consider this an argument in favor of using termcap(3) or curses(3). > You might also include X terminals - ie give full X support, not just > running it in an Xterm. Use STDWIN or some other high-level portable window interface and you get curses, X, MacOS, Windows, etc... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com