Re: [Gm2] WindowsDevices and ncurses

[john o goyo]

On 3 Oct 2013, at 17:02, Gaius Mulley wrote (in part):

> ROBERT SOLOMON <address@hidden> writes:
> [...]
> > Why is that better than using the ncurses input routines?
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> it probably isn't - you could use those if you wished.  The ncurses
> routines look pretty thorough - and you could still bundle them up
> to produce a:
>
> PROCEDURE Read (VAR ch: CHAR) ;
>
> and push this procedure onto the ReadInput.  Then use standard M2
> input routines,

I am not convinced that this would work.  Curses is well named and is  
very finicky, not to mention takes over all terminal i/o.

john