GUILE NCURSES 2.2: Getting a string of characters from the screen

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5.2.25 Getting a string of characters from the screen

Procedure: instr win #:key y x n: This routine returns a unrendered string, extracted starting at the current cursor position in the named window. Attributes are stripped from the characters. If n is specified, it returns a leading substring at most n characters long.