On Oct 25, 2017, at 6:03 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> Warren Young writes:
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>> As for the portability of ANSI terminal escape codes, it’s still best to
>> delegate such things to curses or libraries like it, despite the near
>> ubiquity of ANSI-family terminal emulators.
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> Does anyone really
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, Warren Young wrote:
This thread is about color. My Link MC3+ doesn’t even *have* color,
but it will do bold, underline, and blink. Why should Autoconf care
what my terminal can do? The operating system has a database
mapping what my terminal can do to a common API. Le
On Oct 27, 2017, at 7:19 AM, Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
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> On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, Warren Young wrote:
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>> The operating system has a database mapping what my terminal can do to a
>> common API. Let the library handle it.
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> I should point out that the "operating system" does not necessarily ha
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, Warren Young wrote:
On Oct 27, 2017, at 7:19 AM, Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, Warren Young wrote:
The operating system has a database mapping what my terminal can do to a common
API. Let the library handle it.
I should point out that the "operating s
