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Re:Writing Programs with Ncurses by tspivey on Monday August 30, 2021 @11:23PM (#28363622)
Somewhere useful depends on the app. In an editor, it's the line of text I'm editing. In a file manager, it's the currently focused file.

The hardware cursor is where it will start reading when I press read current line, word, etc.

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Re:Writing Programs with Ncurses by caf on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:21AM (#28402735)
That makes sense. It's a little harder to determine where it should go for something like a chat client where the UI changes asynchronously.
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