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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:54:15 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: Cursor manipulation in python/curses
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Leonardo,

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:26:24PM -0200, Leonardo Mesquita wrote:
> this is the first time I am writing to this list, so I apologize if
> this is way off-topic...

No need to apologize -- this post is appropriate for this list.

> Is there any possible way to hide the terminal cursor with curses in 
> cygwin/python?

Sorry, I don't know how to accomplish this -- I don't use this
functionality.

> The curs_set function always returns ERR (as pointed out in several
> examples in the demo files for python), and I wasn't able to generate
> an escape sequence to do such thing.

If this is important to you, then you will have to debug this further.

Jason

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