Hello zsh-workers :)) I haven't took a deep look at the code, but I think that ncurses is used only in the terminfo module and, obviously, in the few screen handling routines of zsh, and I will make a suggestion: how about switching to slang? I think that it's fully ncurses compatible, less bloated and full featured. I don't know if it is really needed, because I don't know the use of ncurses throughout the zsh code, but IMHO slang is far better. Moreover: how is curses used in zsh? Is *really* needed to make zsh dependent of the curses library or could it statically link the few needed parts? I keep on with my idea of putting zsh into a tiny embedded system O:))) Thanks in advance for you opinion :) Raśl