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Termbox is a library that provides minimalistic API which allows the
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programmer to write text-based user interfaces.
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It is based on a very simple abstraction. The main idea is viewing
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terminals as a table of fixed-size cells and input being a stream of
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structured messages.
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The model is inspired by the windows console API.
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The abstraction itself is not perfect and it may create problems in
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certain areas. The most sensitive ones are copy & pasting and wide
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characters (mostly Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) characters).
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When it comes to copy & pasting, the notion of cells is not really
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compatible with the idea of text. And CJK runes often require more
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than one cell to display them nicely.
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Termbox is aimed at pseudo-graphical user interfaces.
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