However, those are not widely used.

The name "curses" is a pun on cursor optimization. Sometimes it is incorrectly stated that curses was used by the vi editor; in actuality, the code in curses that optimizes moving the cursor was borrowed from vi, which predated curses.

According to Goodheart, Ken Arnold's original implementation of curses started by reusing functions from the termcap library, and adding to that. A few years later, Mary Ann Horton,

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