termkey2 ======== `termkey2' is a library providing an alternative to ncurses' handling of terminal input. ncurses does a really terrible job at that, mainly wrt. mouse support which seems to be utterly broken. If you can drag things in a terminal application, such as in VIM, I can assure you it's not using ncurses for that. Since terminal I/O is really complicated and full of special cases, this project doesn't aspire to also replace the output part of ncurses, but is rather complementary to it. In the end it makes use of its terminfo library. The API isn't stable yet. Tell me what needs to be done so I can fix it first. Building and Installing ----------------------- Build dependencies: GCC/Clang, pkg-config, cmake >= 2.8.5 Optional dependencies: Unibilium (alternative for curses), GLib (for the demos) $ git clone https://github.com/pjanouch/termkey2.git $ mkdir build $ cd build $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local To install the library, you can do either the usual: $ make install Or you can try telling CMake to make a package for you. For Debian it is: $ cpack -G DEB # dpkg -i termkey2-*.deb To see the library in action, you can try running the demos, which are statically linked against the library, and hence they can be run as they are: $ make demos What's Different From the Original termkey? ------------------------------------------- The main change is throwing away any UTF-8 dependent code, making the library capable of handling all unibyte and multibyte encodings supported by iconv on your system. The characters are still presented as Unicode at the end, however, as the other sensible option is wchar_t and that doesn't really work well, see http://gnu.org/software/libunistring/manual/libunistring.html#The-wchar_005ft-mess Another change worth mentioning is the usage of CMake instead of the problematic libtool-based Makefile. Now you can include this project in your other CMake- -based projects and simply import the target. No package maintainer action is needed for you to enjoy the benefits of proper terminal input. The rest is just me going silly over formatting and various unimportant stuff. Oh, and I've deleted the manpages. It needs more Doxygen. :) TBD License ------- `termkey2' is based on the `termkey' library originally written by Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>, with additional changes made by Přemysl Janouch <p.janouch@gmail.com>. You may use the software under the terms of the MIT license, the text of which is included within the package, see the file LICENSE.