Couldn't seem to get #VimClassic to compile on #FreeBSD.
But then I realized the only thing I used it for is sncli, because it does something funny with the terminal when it hands it off to nvi, such that the cursor becomes invisible. But then, it's just a !reset to fix it, so I might as well just stick with nvi. ;)
Ah.
I tried to write a shell script that ran reset, then vi, then reset again. It helped vi, but sncli was totally unusable afterward.
!reset is good enough, I guess. ;)
It would have to be more complex than that: a tool that sets cursor addressing mode and non-canonical input mode back up after nvi exits (which is when nvi tears down cursor addressing mode and all that stuff).
reset actually does the opposite of that.
Sadly, #ncurses, which #urwid can be layered on top of, is quite capable of switching between 'prog' and 'shell' modes; but this is simply not used by urwid and is not even the urwid underpinning that is chosen by #sncli anyway.
Yeah, it sounds pretty dodgy (urwid).
One thing I like to do occasionally is run TUIs through trickle to see which ones are efficient, and which ones are redrawing everything tons of times for no good reason.
Yeah, it's not much fun at 1200 baud. It's redrawing every single character onscreen, even the blank ones. But not when moving the selection bar, so at least there's that.
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