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Ncurses is an interesting interface with ANSI. Different terminal emulaters show the characters and colors in a different way, and
sometimes the ESC key doesn't work, so I have to use 'ctrl + [' .

Different question, Is Midnight Commander relying on NCurses? I found it very unstable under iTerm2 on MacOS. lot of CTRL+L to refresh the damn thing.

I was always blaming Ncurses for that as I found also some different apps that rely on it and are not always compatible with my still favorite terminal emulator

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On 09 Oct 2025, hollowone said the following...

Ncurses is an interesting interface with ANSI. Different terminal emulaters show the characters and colors in a different way, and sometimes the ESC key doesn't work, so I have to use 'ctrl + [' .

Different question, Is Midnight Commander relying on NCurses? I found it very unstable under iTerm2 on MacOS. lot of CTRL+L to refresh the damn thing.

I was always blaming Ncurses for that as I found also some different
apps that rely on it and are not always compatible with my still
favorite terminal emulator

the entire purpose of ncurses (besides just making it easier to write textmode apps) is to ask terminfo/termcap how to manage your screen so it works on a wide variety of terminals

that that's gotten messed up is either annoying from the distro side (so i guess apple?) or annoying because you broke it somehow? haha

i kid i kid.. but really, that's a story as old as *nix itself :)

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Re: Re: ansi art software lin
By: hollowone to bbsing on Thu Oct 09 2025 07:08:00

Ncurses is an interesting interface with ANSI. Different terminal emulaters show the characters and colors in a different way, and

Different question, Is Midnight Commander relying on NCurses? I found it very unstable under iTerm2 on MacOS. lot of CTRL+L to refresh the damn

Yes midnight commander on linux systems is relying on curses/ncurses library.

Depending on what terminal being used to access the system and its specific settings the ctrl keys and alt key sequenes often don't work the same. Even the window curses paints may not look the same through different terminal programs. I've also found sometimes when connecting to a remote system that system may not recieve your terminal settings (vt100, vt102), for the TERM variable.

below is a partial list of dependencies: URL:https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/doc/INSTALL ----------------------------------------
Build requirements for GNU Midnight Commander
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- glibc or uClibc or musl
- https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
- https://uclibc.org
- https://www.musl-libc.org
- gcc or clang
- https://gcc.gnu.org
- https://clang.llvm.org
- make
- https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
- autoconf >= 2.64
- https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
- automake >= 1.14
- https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
- libtool
- https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
- pkg-config (optional)
- https://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/
- glib2 >= 2.32
- https://www.gtk.org
- slang2 or ncurses screen library

that rely on it and are not always compatible with my still favorite terminal emulator

What is your favorite terminal emulator?

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