Editing Ncurses (section)

===curses===
{{Main|Curses (programming library)}}
The first curses library was developed at the University of California at Berkeley, for a [[BSD]] operating system, around 1980 to support [[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]], a text-based adventure game. It originally used the [[termcap]] library, which was used in other programs, such as the [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] editor.<ref name="ncurses Raymond">{{cite magazine
 |last1=Raymond |first1=Eric S. |author1-link=Eric S. Raymond
 |date=September 1995
 |url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1124
 |title=ncurses: Portable Screen-Handling for Linux
 |magazine=Linux Journal
}}</ref>

The success of the BSD curses library prompted [[Bell Labs]] to release an enhanced curses library in their System V Release 2 [[Unix]] systems. This library was more powerful and instead of using termcap, it used [[terminfo]]. However, due to [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]]'s policy regarding the distribution of source code, the improved curses library was not widely adopted in the BSD community.<ref name="ncurses Raymond"/>