Curses-based editing routines

[Don Thomson]

A couple of weeks ago I posted the following query to comp.lang.c.  I received
lots of responses, all of them saying "I'm looking for the same thing, so
please send me whatever you find out", but not a single answer to the
question!  Since there seem to be so many of us looking for the same thing,
I'm posting this to comp.unix.questions instead, hoping to catch a slightly
different (albeit overlapping) audience and perhaps turn up a few suggestions:

> In the spirit of not reinventing the wheel, I'm looking for public domain C
> source on which to base a set of generic editing routines for entering
> fields of data of different types: string, multiple-row text, integer,
> float, choice of scalar values (i.e. Yes/No), etc.  The routines would need
> to be as portable as possible and would presumably be curses based.  The
> string/text fields would allow modification of existing text and choice of
> insert/overtype modes.  The numeric and scalar fields would check for entry
> of legal values (i.e. digits and decimal point) with each key stroke (as
> opposed to verifying legality after pressing <RETURN>).  Any
> recommendations for code that implements these kind of routines well and is
> available via anonymous ftp?  Thanks.
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