Multiline text input possible at all using ncurses?

[Harishankar]

My apologies if this is not the right group to post this question, but I 
couldn't find any other ncurses group that was active and didn't have 
spam.

Is it at all possible to get multiline text input in a scrollable widget 
in ncurses without using a third party library?

I am looking to develop a simple curses application in Python, but the 
python module provides only curses.textpad which is extremely limited and 
doesn't allow a scrollable text editor.

How easy or difficult is it to get multiline text input in an ncurses 
application? Is there any example code which I can find on the internet, 
because I've spent a few days trying to find one, but there are no 
obvious places to look this up. Most of the ncurses tutorials are very 
basic.

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