Terminfo is a library and database that enables programs to use display terminals in a device-independent manner. Mary Ann Horton implemented the first...

device drivers rather than a terminal database. Most implementations use terminfo; some use termcap. Curses has the advantage of back-portability to character-cell...

makes use of terminal capabilities. Depending on the system, tput uses the terminfo or termcap database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal...

curses. ncurses can use either terminfo (with extensible data) or termcap. Other implementations of curses generally use terminfo; a minority use termcap. Few...

process of writing portable text mode applications. It was superseded by the terminfo database used by ncurses, tput, and other programs. Bill Joy wrote the...

configured by a system administrator and accessed from programs via the terminfo library (which supersedes the older termcap library), upon which in turn...

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POSIX computer operating systems such as Linux or Mac OS X. It uses the terminfo library, but it can also be compiled using a bundled copy of the GNU termcap...

other systems such as KolibriOS. Depending on the system, clear uses the terminfo or termcap database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal...

color by its number?  Rather than using the color support in termcap and terminfo introduced in SVr3.2 (1987), the S-Lang library (version 0.99-32, June...

Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode, and...

checking. Support for the X clipboard. Smart terminal handling based on terminfo. Searchable command history. Web-based configuration (fish_config). Free...

using the appropriate control codes; In Unix-like systems the termcap or terminfo files, the stty utility, and the TERM environment variable would be used;...

keymaps for different terminal types (associating either literal strings or terminfo capability names) Hexadecimal editing mode Editing of mmap'd files or devices...

environment variable (and, optionally for the termcap and terminfo libraries, the TERMCAP and TERMINFO environment variables, respectively). This variable is...

function keys, macros, and improved performance by replacing termcap with terminfo. Up to version 3.7 of vi, created in October 1981, UC Berkeley was the...

tmux is an open-source terminal multiplexer for Unix-like operating systems. It allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in a single...

autoconf, its developers improved the adaptability by making it work with terminfo or curses—again improving portability. Other changes, such as localization...

set of targets, most of them were Linux specific: fbdev, X, aa, vcsa, terminfo and some pseudo targets such as tile, multi, palemu and trueemu. The GGI...

vile is a text editor that combines aspects of the Emacs and vi editors. These editors are traditionally located on opposing sides of the editor wars,...

because Unix had problems with coping with the key sequences required (terminfo/termcap was incomplete compared to the proprietary "VTM".). This is still...