[discussion] Why both libtermkey and libncurses?

[ghost]

I am only asking because I am curious.

Unlike libncurses, libtermkey is rarely pre-installed on a system, and everything could have been done with libncurses.

Is that the reason ? With libtermkey the way to go as libncurses can not evolve anymore ?

If one had to start a whole new project, would you recommand libtickit ? There was a depcrecation notice on the libtermkey page pointing at libtickit as a replacement.

[aeosynth]

libtermkey is deprecated, but libtickit is not ready to replace it + curses:

neovim/neovim#5556 (comment)

Ultimately this entire behaviour would become a lot simpler in neovim if it just used libtickit to handle terminal IO; though I'm aware it's not quite ready for that yet.

[erf]

@josuah see #250

[ghost]

Thanks you for pointing me out these issues. Got plenty to read now. :)