Announcing vty, a very simple terminal interface library. In <150 non-blank non-comment lines of Haskell (and 7 lines of C) vty provides: * Automatic handling of suspend/resume (SIGTSTP+SIGCONT) * Automatic handling of window resizes * Automatic computation of minimal differences * Minimizes repaint area, thus virtually eliminating the flicker problem that plagues ncurses programs * Automatically decodes keyboard keys into (key,[modifier]) tuples * Automatically supports refresh on Ctrl-L. * Automatically supports timeout after 50ms for lone ESC (a barely noticable delay) * Interface is designed for relatively easy compatible extension. Current disadvantages: * No current support for non-ANSI terminals. * Minimal support for special keys on terminals other than the linux-console. (F1-5 and arrow keys should work, but anything shifted isn't likely to.) * Uses the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl to find the current window size, which appears to be limited to Linux and *BSD. darcs get --tag=rel-1.0 http://members.cox.net/stefanor/vty http://members.cox.net/stefanor/vty/dist/vty-1.0.tar.gz To compile the demonstration program: ghc --make Test.hs gwinsz.c