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5.2 The basic curses library: (ncurses curses)

These are the functions in the (ncurses curses) module.

The procedures in the curses library closely follow the functions in the C-language API. Most of the procedures in the library have approximately the same name and arguments as the functions in the C-language API.

• Overview:  
• Features determined at compile time:  
• Curses screen initialization and manipulation routines:  
• Errors and Exceptions:  
• Making rendered characters:  
• Adding characters:  
• Adding strings of characters and attributes:  
• Character and window attribute control routines:  
• Bell and screen flash routines:  
• Window background manipulation routines:  
• Borders and lines:  
• Clearing windows and parts of window:  
• Color manipulation routines:  
• Deleting the character under the cursor:  
• Deleting and inserting lines:  
• Getting characters from the keyboard:  
• Handling unmapped keys:  
• Receiving strings from the keyboard:  
• Cursor location and window coordinates:  
• Getting a rendered character from the window:  
• Getting a string of characters and attributes from a window:  
• Input options:  
• Inserting a character before the cursor:  
• Inserting a string before the cursor:  
• Getting a string of characters from the screen:  
• Low-level routines:  
• Mouse handling:  
• Moving the cursor :  
• Output options:  
• Overlay and manipulate overlapped windows:  
• Create and display pads:  
• Print data to a terminal-attached ports:  
• Refresh windows and lines:  
• Reading and writing a curses screen to a file:  
• Scroll a window:  
• Terminal attributes:  
• Refresh routines:  
• Miscellaneous utilities:  
• Window creation:  
• Terminal resizing:  
• Querying the terminfo database:  

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