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Has anybody got a working example of using the curses.textpad.Textbox widget to edit existing text? This is, of course, in a Linux terminal (e.g. xterm).
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The stdscr object returned by the initscr() function is a window object that covers the entire screen. Many programs may need only this single window, but you might wish to divide the screen into smaller windows, in order to redraw or clear them separately.
The curses library itself offers only very simple input mechanisms. Python's support adds a text-input widget that makes up some of the lack. The most common way to get input to a window is to use its getch() method. getch() pauses and waits for the user to hit a key, displaying it if echo() has been called earlier.
The curses package comes with the Python standard library. In Linux and Mac, the curses dependencies should already be installed so there is no extra steps needed. On Windows, you need to install one special Python package, windows-curses available on PyPI to add support.
textpad.Textbox(win, insert_mode=True) provides basic insert support. Backspace needs to be added though.
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