On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:20:38 +0200
Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote:

> There  are  two  use  cases for two blinking modes: Showing the advanced
> technology of st. If the refactoring works, this shows  the  flexibility
> of  the  st vt100 implementation. It’s a bit like the DEC test sequence.
> Why would it be needed?

Exactly.
 
> The  second  use  case  is to have contrast in an all blinking terminal.
> Maybe an escape sequence could be useful to define the  blinking inter-
> val.
> 
> I’m  against fast blinking. Either apply variable blinking support (with
> fast blinking being a special case) or just keep  the  binary  state  of
> blinking or not blinking.

Given variable-blinking is not in the standard, chosing either of these
possibilities is not that hard.
I'm also against fast blinking.

Cheers

FRIGN

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FRIGN <d...@frign.de>

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