Blank lines in terminal

[Dylan Lukes]

I have an IRC bot I wrote, and I would like to have it so that in the
console window, the bottom one or two lines are always blank.

In other words, I want puts/print to output to the second line from the
bottom instead of the bottommost line.

I am aware that this could be done with curses/ncurses, but I have been
unable to find any decent documentation for them in Ruby.

If possible I would like to avoid the need to use (n)curses.
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[Martin DeMello]

May I ask why you want to avoid ncurses? It is, in general, a hard
problem to do this sort of thing portably across platforms and
terminals, and this is the exact problem curses is meant to solve.

martin

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

Dylan Lukes wrote:
> I have an IRC bot I wrote, and I would like to have it so that in the
> console window, the bottom one or two lines are always blank.
>
> In other words, I want puts/print to output to the second line from the
> bottom instead of the bottommost line.
>
> I am aware that this could be done with curses/ncurses, but I have been
> unable to find any decent documentation for them in Ruby.

60 seconds of Google searching, and behold:

http://github.com/eclubb/ncurses-ruby

A quick stop at rdoc.info, and:
http://rdoc.info/projects/eclubb/ncurses-ruby

>
> If possible I would like to avoid the need to use (n)curses.

You probably won't easily be able to.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
mar...@marnen.org