+ <dt><a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt420_lrmm">
+ vt420+lrmm</a>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>add smglp and smgrp</dd>
+
+ <dt><a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt420">
+ vt420</a>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>use vt420+lrmm</dd>
+
+ <dt><a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm-new">
+ xterm-new</a>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>add nel</dd>
+
+ <dt><a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm-vt52">
+ xterm-vt52</a>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>use vt52+keypad</dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <p>A few entries use extensions (user-defined terminal
+ capabilities):</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>add shifted Linux console keys in <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-linux_sfkeys">
+ linux+sfkeys</a> entry for <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-screen.linux">
+ screen.linux</a></li>
+
+ <li>add Smulx to <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-alacritty">
+ alacritty</a></li>
+
+ <li>add kbeg to <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_keypad">
+ xterm+keypad</a> to accommodate termcap applications</li>
+
+ <li>add extensions in <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_tmux">
+ xterm+tmux</a> and <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-ecma_strikeout">
+ ecma+strikeout</a> to <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-ms-terminal">
+ ms-terminal</a>, but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms
+ capabilities</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3><a name="h3-documentation" id=
+ "h3-documentation">Documentation</a></h3>
+
+ <p>As usual, this release</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>improves documentation by describing new features,</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>attempts to improve the description of features which
+ users have found confusing</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>fills in overlooked descriptions of features which were
+ described in the <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html">NEWS</a>
+ file but treated sketchily in manual pages.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>In addition to providing background information to explain
+ these features and show how they evolved, there are corrections,
+ clarifications, etc.:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Corrections:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>make <em>opts</em> extension for <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_getcchar.3x.html#h3-getcchar">
+ <tt>getcchar</tt></a> work as documented for <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce-6.1.html#h4-new-library">
+ ncurses 6.1</a>, adding “<tt>-g</tt>” flag to
+ <em>demo_new_pair</em> to illustrate.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tset.1.html">tset</a>
+ “-q” option to refrain from modifying
+ terminal modes, to match the documentation.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>New/improved history and portability sections:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>improve documentation for <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/terminfo.5.html#h3-Parameterized-Strings">
+ tparm</a> and static/dynamic variables.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>add history note to <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_scanw.3x.html#h2-HISTORY">
+ curs_scanw.3x</a> for <stdarg.h> and
+ <varargs.h></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>add history note to <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_printw.3x.html#h2-HISTORY">
+ curs_printw.3x</a> for <stdarg.h> and
+ <varargs.h></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>add portability note to <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/ncurses.3x.html#h3-Header-files">
+ ncurses.3x</a> regarding <stdarg.h></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>add historical notes to <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tput.1.html#h2-HISTORY">
+ tput</a>, <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h2-HISTORY">
+ curses-terminfo</a> and <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_color.3x.html#h2-HISTORY">
+ curses-color</a> manpages based on source-code for SVr2,
+ SVr3 and SVr4.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>improve history section for <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tset.1.html#h2-HISTORY">
+ tset</a> manpage based on the 1BSD tarball, which
+ preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three
+ years.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Other improvements:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>explain in <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/ncurses.3x.html#h2-ALTERNATE-CONFIGURATIONS">
+ ncurses.3x</a> that functions in the tinfo library do not
+ rely upon wide-characters.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>improve manual page for <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/panel.3x.html#h2-PORTABILITY">
+ panel</a> library, extending the portability section as
+ well as documenting error-returns.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>add section on margins to <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/terminfo.5.html#h3-Margins">
+ terminfo.5</a>, adapted from X/Open Curses.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>improve <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/term.5.html#h3-LEGACY-STORAGE-FORMAT">
+ man/term.5</a> section on legacy storage format.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>add a note in <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/terminfo.5.html#h3-Predefined-Capabilities">
+ terminfo.5</a> explaining that no-parameter strings such
+ as <em><tt>sgr0</tt></em> or <em><tt>cnorm</tt></em>
+ should not be used with tparm.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>improve description of BSD-style padding in <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_termcap.3x.html#h2-BUGS">
+ curs_termcap.3x</a></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>improve discussion of padding versus <tt>tparm</tt>
+ and <tt>tputs</tt> in <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h3-Formatting-Output">
+ man/curs_terminfo.3x</a></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>add a note in manual page to explain <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_getch.3x.html#h3-Ungetting-characters">
+ ungetch</a> vs <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_get_wch.3x.html#h3-unget_wch">
+ unget_wch</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>improve description of error-returns in <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_addch.3x.html#h2-RETURN-VALUE">
+ waddch</a> and <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_addstr.3x.html#h2-RETURN-VALUE">
+ waddnstr</a> manual pages.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>There are no new manual pages (all of the manual page updates
+ are to existing pages).</p>
+
+ <p>Some of the improvements are more subtle, relating to the way
+ the information is presented. For instance, hyphenation is
+ suppressed in the HTML files generated from manual pages because
+ an upgrade to <em>groff</em> gave noticeably poorer results,
+ interfering with the process of creating links between the
+ resulting webpages.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="h3-bug-fixes" id="h3-bug-fixes">Interesting
+ bug-fixes</a></h3>
+
+ <p>While there were many bugs fixed during development of ncurses
+ 6.3, only a few (the reason for this release) were both important
+ and interesting. Most of the bug-fixes were for local issues
+ which did not affect compatibility across releases. Since those
+ are detailed in the <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20211018">NEWS</a>
+ file no elaboration is needed here.</p>
+
+ <p>The interesting bugs were:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>modify <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_bkgd.3x.html#h3-bkgd">
+ wbkgd</a> and <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_bkgrnd.3x.html#h3-bkgrnd">
+ wbkgrnd</a> to avoid storing a null in the background
+ character, because it may be used in cases where the
+ corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null.</p>
+
+ <p>This was a regression introduced in ncurses 6.2 (<a href=
+ "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-03/msg00000.html">reported</a>
+ on the mailing list), for which the workaround was to specify
+ a blank for the background character.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>remove output-related checks for <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_outopts.3x.html">
+ nl/nonl</a> (also <a href=
+ "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-09/msg00018.html">
+ reported</a> on the mailing list).</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>improve tparm implementation of <tt>%P</tt> and
+ <tt>%g</tt>, more closely matching SVr4 terminfo. Those
+ denote <em>static</em> and <em>dynamic</em> variables in
+ terminfo expressions.</p>
+
+ <p>Exactly what those terms meant was never documented before
+ in any implementation of curses, aside from source code.
+ Unlike the other two fixes, the problem was discovered while
+ studying OpenBSD's version of <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-openbsd.html#issue_tput">
+ tset</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3><a name="h3-config-config" id=
+ "h3-config-config">Configuration changes</a></h3>
+
+ <h4><a name="h4-config-major" id="h4-config-major">Major
+ changes</a></h4>
+
+ <p>There are no major changes. Several new options were added to
+ ease integration of packages with systems using different
+ versions of <em>GNAT</em> and <em>ncurses</em>. Also,
+ improvements were made to configure checks.</p>
+
+ <h4><a name="h4-config-options" id=
+ "h4-config-options">Configuration options</a></h4>
+
+ <p>There are a few new/modified configure options:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt><tt>--enable-fvisibility</tt>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>new configure option and check for <em>gcc</em>
+ <tt>-fvisibility=hidden</tt> feature</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><tt>--enable-leaks</tt>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>corrected to allow turning leak-checking off later in a
+ set of options.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><tt>--enable-stdnoreturn</tt>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>new configure option makes the <code>_Noreturn</code>
+ keyword optional to ease transition.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><tt>--disable-pkg-ldflags</tt>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>revised option also controls whether <code>$LDFLAGS</code>
+ from the build is provided in “<tt>-config</tt>”
+ and “<tt>.pc</tt>” files.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><tt>--disable-root-access</tt>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>add configure option which tells ncurses to disallow most
+ file-opens by setuid processes.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><tt>--disable-wattr-macros</tt>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>changed default to help packagers who reuse wide ncursesw
+ header file with non-wide ncurses library.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><tt>--with-pkg-config-libdir</tt>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>revised option uses the actual search path from
+ <em>pkg-config</em> or <em>pkgconf</em> using the output from
+ <tt>--debug</tt>.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><tt>--with-ada-libname</tt><br>
+ <tt>--with-form-libname</tt><br>
+ <tt>--with-menu-libname</tt><br>
+ <tt>--with-panel-libname</tt>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>new several <tt>--with-<em>xxx</em>-libname</tt> options,
+ to help with pkgsrc</p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h3><a name="h3-portability" id="h3-portability">Portability</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Many of the portability changes are implemented via the
+ configure script:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>add a special case in the configure script to work around
+ one of the build-time breakages reported for <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-openbsd.html">OpenBSD
+ 6</a> here:</p>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ <p><a href=
+ "https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html">
+ https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html</a></p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify configure check for <em>libtool</em> to prevent
+ accidental use of an OpenBSD program which uses the same
+ name.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to
+ use <em>AC_CHECK_TOOL</em>. That can still be overridden by
+ <tt>--with-tic-path</tt> and <tt>--with-infocmp-path</tt>
+ when fallbacks are used, but even if not using fallbacks, the
+ improved check may help with cross-compiling.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>relax modification-time comparison in
+ <em>CF_LINK_FUNCS</em> to allow it to accept link() function
+ with NFS filesystems which change the mtime on the link
+ target, e.g., several BSD systems.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of
+ <em>clang</em> to use its <tt>-std</tt> option instead,
+ because some platforms, in particular macOS, do not provide
+ workable c89/c99 aliases.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify <em>CF_NCURSES_CONFIG</em> to work around
+ <em>Xcode</em>'s c99 "-W" option, which conflicts with
+ conventional use for passing linker options.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of
+ _XOPEN_SOURCE, e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500,
+ but 600 is needed for ncursesw.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Here are some of the other portability fixes:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>change configure-check and source-code for gcc's noreturn
+ attribute to assume it is a prefix rather than suffix,
+ matching c11's _Noreturn convention.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure
+ option.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>build-fix for termsort module when configured with
+ termcap.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify configure script and makefiles to support ".PHONY"
+ make program feature.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>amend <em>libtool</em> configuration to add dependency for
+ install.tic, etc., in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level
+ libraries.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file
+ given as parameter rather than to the standard output,
+ allowing builds with MinGW.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's
+ absence.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops
+ integration with gprbuild.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>correct configure version-check/warning for g++ to allow
+ for 10.x</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <hr>
+
+ <h2><a name="h2-features" id="h2-features">Features of
+ <span class="main-name">ncurses</span></a></h2>
+
+ <p>The <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> package is fully
+ upward-compatible with SVr4 (System V Release 4) curses:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>All of the SVr4 calls have been implemented (and are
+ documented).</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><span class="main-name">ncurses</span> supports all of the
+ for SVr4 curses features including keyboard mapping, color,
+ forms-drawing with ACS characters, and automatic recognition
+ of keypad and function keys.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><span class="main-name">ncurses</span> provides these SVr4
+ add-on libraries (not part of X/Open Curses):</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>the panels library, supporting a stack of windows with
+ backing store.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>the menus library, supporting a uniform but flexible
+ interface for menu programming.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>the form library, supporting data collection through
+ on-screen forms.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><span class="main-name">ncurses</span>'s terminal database
+ is fully compatible with that used by SVr4 curses.</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><span class="main-name">ncurses</span> supports
+ user-defined capabilities which it can see, but which are
+ hidden from SVr4 curses applications using the
+ <em>same</em> terminal database.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>It can be optionally configured to match the format
+ used in related systems such as AIX and Tru64.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Alternatively, <span class="main-name">ncurses</span>
+ can be configured to use hashed databases rather than the
+ directory of files used by SVr4 curses.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> utilities have
+ options to allow you to filter terminfo entries for use with
+ less capable <em>curses</em>/<em>terminfo</em> versions such
+ as the HP-UX and AIX ports.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> package also has
+ many useful extensions over SVr4:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>The API is 8-bit clean and base-level conformant with the
+ X/OPEN curses specification, XSI curses (that is, it
+ implements all <em>BASE</em> level features, and most
+ <em>EXTENDED</em> features). It includes many function calls
+ not supported under SVr4 curses (but portability of all calls
+ is documented so you can use the SVr4 subset only).</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Unlike SVr3 curses, <span class="main-name">ncurses</span>
+ can write to the rightmost-bottommost corner of the screen if
+ your terminal has an insert-character capability.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Ada95 and C++ bindings.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Support for mouse event reporting with X Window xterm and
+ FreeBSD and OS/2 console windows.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Extended mouse support via Alessandro Rubini's gpm
+ package.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The function <code>wresize</code> allows you to resize
+ windows, preserving their data.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The function <code>use_default_colors</code> allows you to
+ use the terminal's default colors for the default color pair,
+ achieving the effect of transparent colors.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The functions <code>keyok</code> and
+ <code>define_key</code> allow you to better control the use
+ of function keys, e.g., disabling the <span class=
+ "main-name">ncurses</span> KEY_MOUSE, or by defining more
+ than one control sequence to map to a given key code.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Support for direct-color terminals, such as modern
+ xterm.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Support for 256-color terminals, such as modern xterm.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Support for 16-color terminals, such as <em>aixterm</em>
+ and <em>modern xterm</em>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Better cursor-movement optimization. The package now
+ features a cursor-local-movement computation more efficient
+ than either BSD's or System V's.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Super hardware scrolling support. The screen-update code
+ incorporates a novel, simple, and cheap algorithm that
+ enables it to make optimal use of hardware scrolling,
+ line-insertion, and line-deletion for screen-line movements.
+ This algorithm is more powerful than the 4.4BSD curses
+ <code>quickch</code> routine.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Real support for terminals with the magic-cookie glitch.
+ The screen-update code will refrain from drawing a highlight
+ if the magic- cookie unattributed spaces required just before
+ the beginning and after the end would step on a non-space
+ character. It will automatically shift highlight boundaries
+ when doing so would make it possible to draw the highlight
+ without changing the visual appearance of the screen.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>It is possible to generate the library with a list of
+ pre-loaded fallback entries linked to it so that it can serve
+ those terminal types even when no terminfo tree or termcap
+ file is accessible (this may be useful for support of
+ screen-oriented programs that must run in single-user
+ mode).</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tic.1m.html"><span class="part-name">
+ tic</span></a>/<a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo</a>
+ utility provided with <span class="main-name">ncurses</span>
+ has the ability to translate many termcaps from the XENIX,
+ IBM and AT&T extension sets.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>A BSD-like <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tset.1.html"><span class="part-name">
+ tset</span></a> utility is provided.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> library and
+ utilities will automatically read terminfo entries from
+ $HOME/.terminfo if it exists, and compile to that directory
+ if it exists and the user has no write access to the system
+ directory. This feature makes it easier for users to have
+ personal terminfo entries without giving up access to the
+ system terminfo directory.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>You may specify a path of directories to search for
+ compiled descriptions with the environment variable
+ TERMINFO_DIRS (this generalizes the feature provided by
+ TERMINFO under stock System V.)</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>In terminfo source files, use capabilities may refer not
+ just to other entries in the same source file (as in System
+ V) but also to compiled entries in either the system terminfo
+ directory or the user's $HOME/.terminfo directory.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The table-of-entries utility <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/toe.1m.html"><span class="part-name">
+ toe</span></a> makes it easy for users to see exactly what
+ terminal types are available on the system.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>The library meets the XSI requirement that every macro
+ entry point has a corresponding function which may be linked
+ (and will be prototype-checked) if the macro definition is
+ disabled with <code>#undef</code>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Extensive documentation is provided (see the <em><a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#additional_reading">
+ Additional Reading</a></em> section of the <em><a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html"><span class="main-name">
+ ncurses</span> FAQ</a></em> for online documentation).</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2><a name="h2-who-uses" id="h2-who-uses">Applications using
+ <span class="main-name">ncurses</span></a></h2>
+
+ <p>The <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> distribution
+ includes a selection of test programs (including a few games).
+ These are available separately as <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html">ncurses-examples</a></p>
+
+ <p>The ncurses library has been tested with a wide variety of
+ applications including:</p>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ <dl>
+ <dt><span class="part-name">aptitude</span>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>FrontEnd to Apt, the debian package manager</p>
+
+ <p><a href=
+ "https://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude">https://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude</a></p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><span class="part-name">cdk</span>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Curses Development Kit</p>
+
+ <p><a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/cdk/">https://invisible-island.net/cdk/</a><br>
+
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><span class="part-name">ded</span>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>directory-editor</p>
+
+ <p><a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/ded/">https://invisible-island.net/ded/</a></p>
+ </dd>