From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2010-05-11T00:58:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Any future for curses applications/toolkits like rbcurse ?

On 10 May 2010 17:44, R. Kumar <sentinel.2001@gmx.com> wrote:
> Thomas Sawyer wrote:
>> On May 10, 10:31�am, "R. Kumar" <sentinel.2...@gmx.com> wrote:
>>> Could you clarify that, i did not understand about "console apps that
>>> are not curses based". Do you mean the general command line programs --
>>> apps without a screen interface - such as ri, or gem, or rake, etc ?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> But I think botp makes a fair point about admin consoles. Though I
>> suspect even that won't last for ever.
>
> Thanks for your replies.
>
> Anyway, I will probably keep updating or improving rbcurse to keep in
> touch with ruby. I'll try simplifying, cleaning up, and adding more
> keyboard power to the components.

Thanks, curses interface is nice and certainly useful.

Still I would like to see an extension that supports utf-8, and I am
not sure that is even reasonably possible in ruby 1.8.

Thanks

Michal