Re: Using ncurses only for terminfo (no I/O)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2021-01-18, Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com> wrote:

> tmux has been stripping padding from the result of tiget*() and writing
> it itself for 10 years now and I have had no problems reported
> whatsoever.

That's what my code currently does. One thing I'm wondering about is
what happens when a terminal control sequence contains a string like
$<5> that looks like a delay specification? Is that escaped somehow in
the database and then unescaped by putp() or tputs() when the padding
is added?

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Grant