If we're going to issue smcup to switch to the alternate screen,
flush immediately after doing so. Otherwise, subsequent output
prior to the first render can be swept away. See growlight issue
75: https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/issues/75. In the
demo, we now get this output either (a) at the beginning (if smcup
is inhibited) or (b) at the end (default). Only perform our pause
on startup in case (a).
With this, we can finally build Python Debian packages. Of course,
it wrecks our standard Python installation capabilities. I'll need
fix that. I'm talking on #debian-python IRC now.
We were drawing a dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique lintian
warning. I've eliminated the duplicate Apache-2.0 text, combining
the sections. Furthermore, I've relicensed the Debian files
under Apache-2.0 mainly to reduce complexity.
Introduce the new type 'ncdirect', a stripped-down 'notcurses'
suitable for inline modification of regular output. Used the new
type because otherwise there were going to be if(directmode) checks
everywhere. Direct mode encompasses only colorizing and styling.
Add new man page notcurses_directmode(3). Add new section to README.
Add new PoC using direct mode RGB. Update demo table summary to use
direct mode.
As it turns out, we can't portably load the initial terminal contents
(there are some hacks of various EXTREME nature, but none of them are
worth it for the rather limited benefit). The O(1)-time damage
inference requires knowledge of what was previously present to
inibit unnecessary draws. We would then need some special cell value
indicating "not yet written to" to distinguish a purposeful null
cell from an initial cell. Again, we could do this, but for what value?
Finally, the idea of clearing new area on SIGWINCH was always flawed,
as we can't do that from a signal handler.
With the advent of direct mode #77, the reason for this largely goes
away in any case.
