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* python wrappers by igo95862 (<igo95862@yandex.ru>)
for more information, see [dankwiki](https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses)
and the [man pages](https://notcurses.com/notcurses). there's also a reference
[in this repo](USAGE.md). in addition, there is
and the [man pages](https://notcurses.com/notcurses). in addition, there is
[Doxygen](https://nick-black.com/notcurses/html/) output. there is a
[mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/notcurses) which can be reached
via notcurses@googlegroups.com. i wrote a coherent
@ -33,9 +32,7 @@ and [src/pocpp/](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/tree/master/src/pocpp
found in [src/demo/](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/tree/master/src/demo).
**If you're running Notcurses applications in a Docker, please consult
"[Environment notes](#environment-notes)" below.** I track some
[capabilities of terminal emulators](TERMINALS.md), and also maintain a list of
[other TUI libraries](OTHERS.md).
"[Environment notes](#environment-notes)" below.**
![Linux](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Linux-grey?logo=linux)
![FreeBSD](https://img.shields.io/badge/-FreeBSD-grey?logo=freebsd)
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* [Requirements](#requirements)
* [Building](#building)
* [Included tools](#included-tools)
* [Differences from NCURSES](#differences-from-ncurses)
* [Features missing relative to NCURSES](#features-missing-relative-to-ncurses)
* [Documentation](#documentation)
* [Differences from Curses](#differences-from-curses)
* [Adapting NCURSES programs](#adapting-ncurses-programs)
* [Environment notes](#environment-notes)
* [TrueColor detection](#TrueColor-detection)
* [Fonts](#fonts)
* [FAQs](#faqs)
* [Supplemental material](#supplemental-material)
* [Useful links](#useful-links)
* [History](#history)
* [Thanks](#thanks)
* [Useful links](#useful-links)
## Introduction
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`notcurses-tester` expects `../tests/` to exist, and be populated with the
necessary data files. It can be run by itself, or via `make test`.
## Differences from NCURSES
## Documentation
* Per-release [News](NEWS.md) for packagers, developers, and users.
* The `TERM` environment variable and [various terminal emulators](TERMINALS.md).
* Notes on [contributing](doc/CONTRIBUTING.md) and [hacking](doc/HACKING.md).
* There's a semi-complete [reference guide](USAGE.md).
* A list of [other TUI libraries](doc/OTHERS.md).
* Abbreviated [history](doc/HISTORY.md) and thanks.
## Differences from Curses
The biggest difference, of course, is that Notcurses is not an implementation
of X/Open (aka XSI) Curses, nor part of SUS4-2018.
The detailed differences between Notcurses and NCURSES probably can't be fully
enumerated, and if they could, no one would want to read them. With that said,
some design decisions might surprise NCURSES programmers:
The detailed differences between Notcurses and NCURSES (a high-quality, ubiquitous
implementation of Curses) probably can't be fully enumerated, and if they
could, no one would want to read them. With that said, some design decisions
might surprise NCURSES programmers:
* There is no distinct `PANEL` type. The z-buffer is a fundamental property,
and all drawable surfaces are ordered along the z axis. There is no
@ -185,18 +189,10 @@ some design decisions might surprise NCURSES programmers:
* It is an error in NCURSES to print to the bottommost, rightmost coordinate of
the screen when scrolling is disabled (because the cursor cannot be advanced).
Failure to advance the cursor does not result in an error in Notcurses (but
attempting to print at the cursor when it has been advanced off the plane
*does*).
### Features missing relative to NCURSES
This isn't "features currently missing", but rather "features I do not intend
to implement".
* There is no support for soft labels (`slk_init()`, etc.).
* There is no concept of subwindows which share memory with their parents.
* There is no tracing functionality ala `trace(3NCURSES)`. Superior external
tracing solutions exist, such as `bpftrace`.
attempting to print at the cursor when it has been advanced off the plane *does*).
* Notcurses has no support for soft labels (`slk_init()`, etc.), subwindows
which share memory with their parents, nor the NCURSES tracing functionality
(`trace(3NCURSES)`).
### Adapting NCURSES programs
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* **Q:** Can I avoid manually exporting `COLORTERM=24bit` everywhere? **A:** Sure. Add `SendEnv COLORTERM` to `.ssh/config`, and `AcceptEnv COLORTERM` to `sshd_config` on the remote server.
## Supplemental material
### Useful links
## Useful links
* [BiDi in Terminal Emulators](https://terminal-wg.pages.freedesktop.org/bidi/)
* [The Xterm FAQ](https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html)
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* [Emoji: how do you get from U+1F355 to 🍕?](https://meowni.ca/posts/emoji-emoji-emoji/)
* [Glyph Hell: An introduction to glyphs, as used and defined in the FreeType engine](http://chanae.walon.org/pub/ttf/ttf_glyphs.htm)
#### Useful man pages
### Useful man pages
* Linux: [console_codes(4)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/console_codes.4.html)
* Linux: [termios(3)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/termios.3.html)
* Linux: [ioctl_tty(2)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_tty.2.html)
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* Portable: [terminfo(5)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/terminfo.5.html)
* Portable: [user_caps(5)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/user_caps.5.html)
### History
### Grotesque vanity and meaningless metrics
* 2021-02-06: [Lightning talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq963c6Fl5E) at [FOSDEM 2021](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/notcurses/).
* 2021-01-11: Notcurses is [accepted into DragonFly BSD](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/1121).
* 2020-12-13: Notcurses [2.1.0 "rubberband man"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v2.1.0).
* 2020-11-23: [Invited presentation](https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org/talks/6-notcurses-making-terminals-do-things-that-were-never-intended/) at [DebMiniConf #2](https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org/).
* 2020-10-12: Notcurses [2.0.0 "stankonia"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v2.0.0).
* A stable API! This API will be supported going forward. [Hype video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYhZ7myXyyg)!
* 2020-08-30: Notcurses [1.7.0 "don't pull the bang out"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.7.0).
* 2020-07-04: Notcurses [1.6.0 "aquemini"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.6.0).
* 2020-07-03: Notcurses is [accepted into Alpine Edge](https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/9924).
* 2020-06-08: Notcurses [1.5.0 "ghetto bird"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.5.0).
* 2020-05-13: Notcurses is [accepted into Fedora Core](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822971).
* 2020-05-10: Notcurses [1.4.0 "the saga continues"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.4.0).
* 2020-05-09: Notcurses is [accepted into FreeBSD](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/575).
* 2020-04-19: Notcurses is [accepted into Debian](https://bugs.debian.org/950492).
* 2020-04-12: Notcurses [1.3.0 "hypnotize"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.3.0).
* 2020-04-08: The Notcurses book [is published](https://amazon.com/dp/B086PNVNC9).
* 2020-03-23: Notcurses is featured on [Linux World News](https://lwn.net/Articles/815811/).
* 2020-02-17: Notcurses [1.2.0 "check the résumé, my record's impeccable"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.2.0).
* 2019-01-19: Notcurses [1.1.0 "all the hustlas they love it just to see one of us make it"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.1.0).
Much better video support, pulsing planes, palette256.
* The new [hype video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H1WkopWJNMk) gets a lot of attention.
* 2019-01-04: Notcurses [1.0.0 "track team, crack fiend, dying to geek"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.0.0)
is released, six days ahead of schedule. 147 issues closed. 702 commits.
* 2019-12-18: Notcurses [0.9.0 "You dig in! You dig out! You get out!"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v0.9.0),
and also the first contributor besides myself (@grendello). Last major pre-GA release.
* 2019-12-05: Notcurses [0.4.0 "TRAP MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v0.4.0),
the first generally usable Notcurses.
* I prepare a [demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEv2YRyiEVM), and release it on YouTube.
* November 2019: I begin work on [Outcurses](https://github.com/dankamongmen/ncreels).
Outcurses is a collection of routines atop NCURSES, including ncreels.
I study the history of NCURSES, primarily using Thomas E. Dickey's FAQ and
the mailing list archives.
* 2019-11-14: I file [Outcurses issue #56](https://github.com/dankamongmen/ncreels/issues/56)
regarding use of TrueColor in outcurses. This is partially inspired by
Lexi Summer Hale's essay [everything you ever wanted to know about terminals](http://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html).
I get into contact with Thomas E. Dickey and confirm that what I'm hoping
to do doesn't really fit in with the codified Curses API.
* 2019-11-16: I make the [first commit](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/commit/635d7039d79e4f94ba645e8cb601e3a6d82a6b30)
to Notcurses.
* September 2019: I extracted fade routines from Growlight and Omphalos, and
offered them to NCURSES as extensions. They are not accepted, which is
understandable. I mention that I intend to extract ncreels, and offer to
include them in the CDK (Curses Development Kit). [Growlight issue #43](https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/issues/43)
is created regarding this extraction. A few minor patches go into NCURSES.
* 2011, 2013: I develop [Growlight](https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight)
and [Omphalos](https://github.com/dankamongmen/omphalos), complicated TUIs
making extensive use of NCURSES.
### Thanks
* Notcurses could never be what it is without decades of tireless, likely
thankless work by Thomas E. Dickey on NCURSES. His FAQ is a model of
engineering history. He exemplifies documentation excellence and
conservative, thoughtful stewardship. The free software community owes
Mr. Dickey a great debt.
* Robert Edmonds provided tremendous assistance Debianizing the package,
and David Cantrell did likewise for Fedora. Both are hella engineers.
* Justine Tunney, one of my first friends at Google NYC, was always present
with support, and pointed out the useful memstream functionality of
POSIX, eliminating the need for me to cons up something similar.
* I one night read the entirety of Lexi Summer Hale's [essays](http://xn--rpa.cc/irl/index.html),
and began implementing her vision the next morning.
* NES art was lifted from [The Spriters Resource](https://www.spriters-resource.com/nes/)
and [NES Sprite](http://nes-sprite.resampled.ru/), the kind of sites that
make the Internet great. It probably violates any number of copyrights. C'est la vie.
* Mark Ferrari, master of the pixel, for no good reason allowed me to reproduce
his incredible and groundbreaking color-cycling artwork. Thanks Mark!
* The world map image was made by [Vecteezy](https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/world-map),
and is used according to the terms of their License.
* Finally, the [demoscene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene) and general
l33t scene of the 90s and early twenty-first century endlessly inspired a
young hax0r. There is great joy in computing; no one will drive us from
this paradise Turing has created!
[![stargazers over time](https://starcharts.herokuapp.com/dankamongmen/notcurses.svg)](https://starcharts.herokuapp.com/dankamongmen/notcurses)
> “Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times
very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was
@ -450,7 +372,3 @@ insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our
techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and
habits they are creating, make it a certainty that _profound changes are
impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful_.” —Paul Valéry
### Grotesque vanity and meaningless metrics
[![stargazers over time](https://starcharts.herokuapp.com/dankamongmen/notcurses.svg)](https://starcharts.herokuapp.com/dankamongmen/notcurses)

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# History
* 2021-02-06: [Lightning talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq963c6Fl5E) at [FOSDEM 2021](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/notcurses/).
* 2021-01-28: Notcurses 2.1.7 introduces the extracted `notcurses-core` library, to allow packaging/linking without multimedia dependencies.
* 2021-01-11: Notcurses is [accepted into DragonFly BSD](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/1121).
* 2020-12-13: Notcurses [2.1.0 "rubberband man"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v2.1.0).
* 2020-11-23: [Invited presentation](https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org/talks/6-notcurses-making-terminals-do-things-that-were-never-intended/) at [DebMiniConf #2](https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org/).
* 2020-10-12: Notcurses [2.0.0 "stankonia"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v2.0.0).
* A stable API! This API will be supported going forward. [Hype video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYhZ7myXyyg)!
* 2020-08-30: Notcurses [1.7.0 "don't pull the bang out"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.7.0).
* 2020-07-04: Notcurses [1.6.0 "aquemini"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.6.0).
* 2020-07-03: Notcurses is [accepted into Alpine Edge](https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/9924).
* 2020-06-08: Notcurses [1.5.0 "ghetto bird"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.5.0).
* 2020-05-13: Notcurses is [accepted into Fedora Core](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822971).
* 2020-05-10: Notcurses [1.4.0 "the saga continues"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.4.0).
* 2020-05-09: Notcurses is [accepted into FreeBSD](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/575).
* 2020-04-19: Notcurses is [accepted into Debian](https://bugs.debian.org/950492).
* 2020-04-12: Notcurses [1.3.0 "hypnotize"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.3.0).
* 2020-04-08: The Notcurses book [is published](https://amazon.com/dp/B086PNVNC9).
* 2020-03-23: Notcurses is featured on [Linux World News](https://lwn.net/Articles/815811/).
* 2020-02-17: Notcurses [1.2.0 "check the résumé, my record's impeccable"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.2.0).
* 2019-01-19: Notcurses [1.1.0 "all the hustlas they love it just to see one of us make it"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.1.0).
Much better video support, pulsing planes, palette256.
* The new [hype video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H1WkopWJNMk) gets a lot of attention.
* 2019-01-04: Notcurses [1.0.0 "track team, crack fiend, dying to geek"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v1.0.0)
is released, six days ahead of schedule. 147 issues closed. 702 commits.
* 2019-12-18: Notcurses [0.9.0 "You dig in! You dig out! You get out!"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v0.9.0),
and also the first contributor besides myself (@grendello). Last major pre-GA release.
* 2019-12-05: Notcurses [0.4.0 "TRAP MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG"](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v0.4.0),
the first generally usable Notcurses.
* I prepare a [demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEv2YRyiEVM), and release it on YouTube.
* November 2019: I begin work on [Outcurses](https://github.com/dankamongmen/ncreels).
Outcurses is a collection of routines atop NCURSES, including ncreels.
I study the history of NCURSES, primarily using Thomas E. Dickey's FAQ and
the mailing list archives.
* 2019-11-14: I file [Outcurses issue #56](https://github.com/dankamongmen/ncreels/issues/56)
regarding use of TrueColor in outcurses. This is partially inspired by
Lexi Summer Hale's essay [everything you ever wanted to know about terminals](http://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html).
I get into contact with Thomas E. Dickey and confirm that what I'm hoping
to do doesn't really fit in with the codified Curses API.
* 2019-11-16: I make the [first commit](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/commit/635d7039d79e4f94ba645e8cb601e3a6d82a6b30)
to Notcurses.
* September 2019: I extracted fade routines from Growlight and Omphalos, and
offered them to NCURSES as extensions. They are not accepted, which is
understandable. I mention that I intend to extract ncreels, and offer to
include them in the CDK (Curses Development Kit). [Growlight issue #43](https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/issues/43)
is created regarding this extraction. A few minor patches go into NCURSES.
* 2011, 2013: I develop [Growlight](https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight)
and [Omphalos](https://github.com/dankamongmen/omphalos), complicated TUIs
making extensive use of NCURSES.
# Thanks
* Notcurses could never be what it is without decades of tireless, likely
thankless work by Thomas E. Dickey on NCURSES. His FAQ is a model of
engineering history. He exemplifies documentation excellence and
conservative, thoughtful stewardship. The free software community owes
Mr. Dickey a great debt.
* Robert Edmonds provided tremendous assistance Debianizing the package,
and David Cantrell did likewise for Fedora. Both are hella engineers.
* Justine Tunney, one of my first friends at Google NYC, was always present
with support, and pointed out the useful memstream functionality of
POSIX, eliminating the need for me to cons up something similar.
* I one night read the entirety of Lexi Summer Hale's [essays](http://xn--rpa.cc/irl/index.html),
and began implementing her vision the next morning.
* NES art was lifted from [The Spriters Resource](https://www.spriters-resource.com/nes/)
and [NES Sprite](http://nes-sprite.resampled.ru/), the kind of sites that
make the Internet great. It probably violates any number of copyrights. C'est la vie.
* Mark Ferrari, master of the pixel, for no good reason allowed me to reproduce
his incredible and groundbreaking color-cycling artwork. Thanks Mark!
* The world map image was made by [Vecteezy](https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/world-map),
and is used according to the terms of their License.
* Finally, the [demoscene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene) and general
l33t scene of the 90s and early twenty-first century endlessly inspired a
young hax0r. There is great joy in computing; no one will drive us from
this paradise Turing has created!

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