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Swap PDCurses for ncurses#357

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Swap PDCurses for ncurses#357
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@skeeto skeeto commented Mar 19, 2026

This was figured out by Claude Code working autonomously over ~12 hours. It works, but overall it's worse than PDCurses. I cannot tell the difference in ccmake, but in gdb:

  • Background colors, like line numbers being highlighted (slightly better)
  • No support for C-a or C-e (big downgrade)
  • Unrecognized modified keys are treated as unmodified, .e.g. M-f is f. PDCurses ignores M-f. (slightly worse)
  • Neither can actually handle wide characters. (no change)

I wanted to capture this somewhere, and perhaps some of this could be addressed in the future.

This was figured out by Claude Code working autonomously over ~12 hours.
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