ncurses
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ncurses (new curses) is a programming library for creating textual user interfaces (TUIs) that work across a wide variety of terminals. It is written in a way that attempts to optimize the commands that are sent to the terminal, to reduce the latency experienced when updating the displayed content.
Key facts
- Software.name
- ncurses
- Software.screenshot
- Linux-menuconfig.png
- Software.caption
- ncurses-based menuconfig
- Software.developer
- Thomas E. Dickey, Juergen Pfeifer, Eric S. Raymond, Alexander V Lukyanov, Philippe Blain, Sven Verdoolaege, Nicolas Boulenguez et al.
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- POSIX
- Software.genre
- Widget toolkit
- Software.license
- X11
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- curses
- pcurses
- ncurses
- Terminal database
- License
- Programs using ncurses
- See also
- References
- External links
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library for creating textual user interfaces (TUIs) that work across a wide variety of terminals. It is written in a way that attempts to optimize the commands that are sent to the terminal, to reduce the latency experienced when updating the displayed content.
ncurses is a free and open-source software emulation of curses from System V Release 4.0 (SVr4).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ncurses” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.