Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1639 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday March 1 2009, Kai Ponte wrote:
> ...
>
> Not sure what ncurses are. I don't like cursing too much, especially
> around the kids.

Isn't it better that they hear it from their parents???

To add to Carlos' answer: The "curse" part of the name originates 
from "cursor" since it's all about addressing the cursor to produce 
structured presentations on text-only output devices (originally 
terminals and nowadays usually terminal emulators and virtual 
consoles). Examples are Vi / Vim, Emacs, top, htop, Midnight Commander 
and the text-mode form of YaST, among others.


> I did find the du command ...

Just now???


> > > Use The Source, Luke! :)

A proposition with which I cannot agree. Software that wants users 
should be documented. It's preposterous to expect potential users to 
reverse engineer a program's use and operation from its source code.


> ...
> --
> kai


Randall Schulz
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