4 ms·
I think the "Curses"[1] section in the Unix Hater's Handbook[2] applies well[3] here[3] :) [1] A reference to ncurses. [2] The book: http://web.mit.edu/~simso
by winter_blue 13y ago
I think the "Curses"[1] section in the Unix Hater's Handbook[2] applies well[3] here[3] :)
[1] A reference to ncurses.
[2] The book: http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
[3] ... as in why make a UI for a constrained primitive interface such as a console....
- glesica 13y agoSo I can use it over SSH... which I do often. It's not like curses apps are that hard to make, especially with Python.
- mjcohen 13y agoI read the UHH many years ago, and learned a lot of useful information from it. It's a wee bit dated, but still a fun read.
- winter_blue 13y agoIt's amazing how so much of it is still so so relevant today! (The book was published in 1994.)
- anonymous 13y agoThat's not amazing, that's just sad.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- teddyh 13y ago"Curses" actually refers to "curses". "ncurses" is new curses. From Wikipedia: “[…] ncurses is a free software emulation (clone) of the System V Release 4.0 (SVr4) curses, which was itself an enhancement over the discontinued classic 4.4 BSD curses.”