How to read HD44780 LCD programmatically

floresta:

I just see no usefulness to this at all.

When the device was designed, decades ago, there was some usefulness.
I gave the reasons behind the inclusion of this capability two months ago, in the second paragraph of reply # 6.

Don

Shrug

No offense, but write it yourself, then. lol

I did not feel that it was useful enough to spend my time writing it, testing it, debugging it, refining it and maintaining it regardless of your reasons. If you do, then write it...