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[Ashish <eraser029@xxxxxxxxx>]

As part of my gsoc project, I've been doing developments on the curses based
UI for boots. My work is available in the branch
lp:~ashishsharma/boots/cui-main .

In this part I am now working out the way in which I should handle the
buffer in terminal. In which way should I keep the buffer contents so that
scrolling through it is efficient. I was recently looking at the
gnome-terminal to see how it handles its buffer.
I did the following experiment, I opened a small terminal window, did
*ls*sometimes. After that I maximized it. Then I did ls some more
times and
then un-maximized it. shot1.png is of maximized window and shot2.png is of
un-maximized window. I found that the gnome-terminal maintains a *buffer of
fixed-size line* .

So in curses UI also I'm planning to create a buffer that will store
fixed-size lines. On terminal resize the contents of the buffer already
create shall not be changed according to new line size of terminal. The
display will show contents of buffer lines that can be shown (i.e, suppose
you currently have 80 char long lines, ls prints in two lines. Now when a
resize occurs and line size becomes 160 char, then this previous ls output
will not be formatted again.).

Comments and feedback on this understanding of mine how terminal works will
be highly appreciated.

Best regards,
Ashish Sharma (_buck)
http://www.google.com/profiles/eraser029

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