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Shugo Maeda
Shugo Maeda
@shugomaeda

The Creator of Textbringer, a Ruby committer, Director of Network Applied Communication Laboratory, and Secretary general of the Ruby Association

Terminal curses

Terminal programming with curses is useful and fun, but it sometimes brings terminal curses.

This talk shows basics of terminals (e.g., real text terminals, terminal emulators, the controlling terminal, /dev/tty and con, pty, control characters, escape sequences, termcap/terminfo, terminal mode), pros and cons of text-based user interfaces, an introduction to curses.gem, its applications, and issues you'll face when programming with curses.

Recorded video