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On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:13:56PM -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, David Champion wrote:
> > Not just the emulators. A curses application using vt100 should never
> > emit color codes. So many of them just presume that ANSI sequences are
> > valid.
> /me looks around guiltily
> Is that how I should determine it? I like colors, and so few people use
> the code that I write (which is too bad, currently, since I'm running a
> software startup) that I haven't bothered to handle that appropriately.
> VT100, huh?
Lots and lots of others too. I kinda assumed that the curses library
should handle all that, but if I read Brother Champion correctly, it's
at least partially up to the application. And if that's the case, some
curses library person needs shootin'.
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David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information
It's my experience that neither users nor customers can articulate
what it is they want, nor can they evaluate it when they see it
-- Alan Cooper
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