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    Terminfo is a library and database that enables programs to use display terminals in a device-independent manner. Mary Ann Horton implemented the first...
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  • configured by a system administrator and accessed from programs via the terminfo library (which supersedes the older termcap library), upon which in turn...
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    process of writing portable text mode applications. It was superseded by the terminfo database used by ncurses, tput, and other programs. A termcap database...
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    Ncurses (category Terminfo)
    curses. ncurses can use either terminfo (with extensible data) or termcap. Other implementations of curses generally use terminfo; a minority use termcap. Few...
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    device drivers rather than a terminal database. Most implementations use terminfo; some use termcap. Curses has the advantage of back-portability to character-cell...
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  • environment variable (and, optionally for the termcap and terminfo libraries, the TERMCAP and TERMINFO environment variables, respectively). This variable is...
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  • makes use of terminal capabilities. Depending on the system, tput uses the terminfo or termcap database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal...
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    POSIX computer operating systems such as Linux or Mac OS X. It uses the terminfo library, but it can also be compiled using a bundled copy of the GNU termcap...
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    TidBITS Publishing, Inc. ISBN 9781933671550. "nsterm - AppKit Terminal.app", terminfo.src, retrieved June 7, 2013 "Use Spotlight from the Command Line with mdfind"...
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    color by its number?  Rather than using the color support in termcap and terminfo introduced in SVr3.2 (1987), the S-Lang library (version 0.99-32, June...
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    other systems such as KolibriOS. Depending on the system, clear uses the terminfo or termcap database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal...
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    Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode, and...
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    using the appropriate control codes; In Unix-like systems the termcap or terminfo files, the stty utility, and the TERM environment variable would be used;...
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    Tin (newsreader) (category Terminfo)
    autoconf, its developers improved the adaptability by making it work with terminfo or curses—again improving portability. Other changes, such as localization...
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    Tmux (category Terminfo)
    tmux is an open-source terminal multiplexer for Unix-like operating systems. It allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in a single...
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    function keys, macros, and improved performance by replacing termcap with terminfo. Up to version 3.7 of vi, created in October 1981, UC Berkeley was the...
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    keymaps for different terminal types (associating either literal strings or terminfo capability names) Hexadecimal editing mode Editing of mmap'd files or devices...
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    checking. Support for the X clipboard. Smart terminal handling based on terminfo. Searchable command history. Web-based configuration (fish_config). Free...
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  • set of targets, most of them were Linux specific: fbdev, X, aa, vcsa, terminfo and some pseudo targets such as tile, multi, palemu and trueemu. The GGI...
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  • because Unix had problems with coping with the key sequences required (terminfo/termcap was incomplete compared to the proprietary "VTM".). This is still...
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  • Vile (text editor) (category Terminfo)
    vile is a text editor that combines aspects of the Emacs and vi editors. These editors are traditionally located on opposing sides of the editor wars,...
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