From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15100 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2001 09:03:16 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Dec 2001 09:03:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 20917 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2001 09:03:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 16296 Received: (qmail 20906 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2001 09:03:08 -0000 To: Zsh Subject: Slang instead ncurses Message-Id: Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 10:14:30 +0100 From: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado Reply-To: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado Sender: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado X-Mailer: DervishD TWiSTiNG Mailer 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 :) Raúl