20 Jun
2003
20 Jun
'03
10:01 a.m.
"Simon Marlow"
[SimpleLineEditor]
Hmm. I'm highly dubious that this can be done portably enough to be worthwhile. The only way to get information about the terminal is by consulting termcap or terminfo, otherwise you're just guessing.
I'm pretty sure that even termcap/terminfo does not contain the sort of information we need. There are just too many layers of environment to worry about.
Isn't this just a pile of bug reports waiting to happen? Or a neverending maintenance headache?
Yes, I expect so. But someone did have a plea that even some small editing functionality would be better than nothing. So in the spirit of "worse is better"... Regards, Malcolm