[SOLVED] Differences between ncurses library and termios struct w.r.t Keyboard reading
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"curses" is relatively high-level; "termio" is extremely low-level.
If you're talking about one low-level key input in one specific part of your program, and termio gives you what you want - then go for it.
If you want generalized, cross-platform, "text mode screen handling" capabilities, then ncurses is generally an excellent choice.
If you just want to read the raw, binary input of a specific key or key combination and you can get away with standard "printf" and "scanf" type input for the rest of your program, then "termio" might be the better choice.
I'm sure others have different opinions, but here's my take. If you want much of what ncurses offers (character-oriented windows, subwindows, menus, and the like), use ncurses. Otherwise, stick with struct termios, so you don't add needless complexity to your program's functionality.
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A note: termios(2) won't read anything, read(2) will. Decoding/interpreting escape sequences is no way trivial; for example midnight commander does some interesting dark magic so that Shift+F5 would work as F15 (instead of F17 or whatnot.)
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