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http://verisimilitudes.net/2018-04-04

The ACUTE-TERMINAL-CONTROL library was created to serve my needs when writing an interactive program that creates a more complex terminal interface. In order to clean the source of the aforementioned program a tad, I decided to split the functionality into a library. I also have a large disgust with the use of Curses varieties in Common Lisp programs, as this unnecessarily and substantially complicates using such a program. Risking memory leaks shouldn’t be necessary to control a terminal. This library is named as if an illness, but can also be read as fast control of a terminal device.

This library is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version three.

This library uses the CL-ECMA-48 library to generate its controlling sequences and so currently only targets terminals supporting the ECMA-48 control functions used. This library primarily acts as an abstraction over CL-ECMA-48. While this ensures that the control functions are optimized, as CL-ECMA-48 performs this optimization, it is not possible at this level of abstraction to necessarily send the absolutely optimal combination of control functions; this will be elaborated upon later.