I've recently been hacking a little on the curses library.  In addition to
Brett Lymn's nodelay() and notimeout(), I've also added wtimeout().

While testing, I noticed an oddity.  Basically, calling noecho() without
either raw() or cbreak() leaves the terminal in canonical mode, so wgetch
only returns when EOL (presumably EOF too) is pressed.  This seems a little
strange ('violates the principle of least astonishment'?).

Looking at getch.c (lines 64-68), cbreak() is automatically set if noecho()
hasn't been called.  Shouldn't cbreak() be set regardless of echo()/noecho().

J

PS.  If anyone wants a copy of the modified library, let me know and I'll
put it up for ftp somewhere.

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