From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-06-02T03:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: What happened to clrtoeol?

On 5/31/06, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leslie Viljoen [mailto:leslieviljoen@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:21 PM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: Re: What happened to clrtoeol?
> >
> >
> > On 5/30/06, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Leslie Viljoen [mailto:leslieviljoen@gmail.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:47 PM
> > > > To: ruby-talk ML
> > > > Subject: What happened to clrtoeol?
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > Also, while I'm asking: anyone know why curses on Win32 is so sad?
> > >
> > > I'm going to go out on a limb and guess "crappy shell environment"
> >
> > Well there are functions to move the cursor, set colours and
> > output text... is there anything else needed? If I can get a
> > second I'll do some research on this, but a quick google
> > doesn't show people screaming about curses being broken on
> > win32, so I don't know.
> >
> > Yes, I *would* just go to Linux if I could.
>
> I've never used curses, so I'm not sure what advantages it has overs
> Windows' own console functions.
>
> Have you seen win32_console (on the RAA)?

Oooh, thanks for that! I may just write some kind of bridge layer so
all these curses apps can work nicely.