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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Using gnat & ncurses
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:35:48 +0100
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Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> Warren wrote:
>
>> It just occurred to me that there was some sort
>> of Ada binding in ncurses IIRC. Has anyone here
>> had any experience with it?  Maybe that would
>> circumvent this main program annoyance among other
>> things.
>
> Most distributions don't seem to package the Ada bindings, although they 
> exist since years. Interestingly, libncurses5-dev in Debian contains the 
> docs for them.

Debian 5.0 "Lenny" has libtexttools-dev, 6.0 "Squeeze" has
libtexttools2-dev.  They provide a thick binding to curses with
additional functionality.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.