Re: [PATCH v2] [grotty]: Use terminfo.

[Lennart Jablonka]

Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
> At 2023-09-01T22:03:54+0000, Lennart Jablonka wrote:
> > In that way, tparm behaves as a variadic function in K&R C.   Now, it
> > doesn’t.   We have a replacement, tiparm;  alas, my OpenBSD box
> > doesn’t have that yet.
> >
> >         char *tiparm(const char *, ...);
> >
> > You haven’t seen it (outside ncurses docs, perhaps) because it was
> > introduced in X/Open Curses Issue 7, which doesn’t seem to be
> > available as “onlinepub.”
>
> I guess OpenBSD uses NetBSD curses then--I'm not aware of OpenBSD having
> its own implementation.  It's _really ugly_ to have to use tparm rather
> than tiparm.  But that's not your problem.

No, since 1996-06-02, OpenBSD uses ncurses.   And old ncurses.  
Don’t worry, it’s not still the same as in 1996;  it’s not up to 
date either, though.   (BSD curses was dropped entirely on 
2015-11-15.

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-openbsd.html

> To sum up, I don't see much remaining to tune in this patch except (1)
> address the OSC 8 test failure and (2) clarifying a comment.  Everything
> else I gripe about I can take on myself, or just add to my list of
> grievances against the universe.

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