Re: [PATCH v3] [grotty]: Use terminfo.

[Lennart Jablonka]

Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
> ACK.  I've gotten a bit sidetracked learning more about terminfo and
> ncurses...and a dreaded, predictable thing happened.
>
> I found the existing ncurses documentation frustrating and started
> rewriting it.  (This is how groff got stuck with me.)
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2023-09/index.html

Heh.   Please don’t abandon poor Groff’s docs in favor of ncurses.

> Fortunately, ncurses is attentively maintained.  So instead of sucking
> up a whole bunch of oxygen there as I did with groff, I found that it
> behooves me to actually read the X/Open Issue 7 standard for curses.
>
> That is a 420-page document, so it's taking some time to absorb.

Luckily, as grotty needs terminfo only, I didn’t need to read all 
the non-terminfo parts.

> How would you feel if I created a feature branch for grotty-terminfo?

If it somehow helps people to have it in the upstream repo even 
before putting it on master, go ahead.

> I'm traveling this week so my pace is slowed a bit.

ACK