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code pretty, too: * Use styles, color, and maybe a little positioning without necessarily clearing the whole screen first. * Leave more than one screenful of scrollback in the buffer after your program exits, like a well-behaved command-line app should. * Get rid of all those noisy, C-like calls to tigetstr and tparm, so your code doesn't get crowded out by terminal bookkeeping. * Act intelligently when somebody redirects your output to a file, omitting the terminal control codes the user doesn't want to see (optional).
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Blessings lifts several of curses' limiting assumptions, and it makes your
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code pretty, too:
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* Use styles, color, and maybe a little positioning without necessarily
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clearing the whole screen first.
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* Leave more than one screenful of scrollback in the buffer after your program
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exits, like a well-behaved command-line app should.
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* Get rid of all those noisy, C-like calls to tigetstr and tparm, so your code
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doesn't get crowded out by terminal bookkeeping.
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* Act intelligently when somebody redirects your output to a file, omitting
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the terminal control codes the user doesn't want to see (optional).
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