Re: Colors Suck.

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: Colors Suck.
Date: 17:39 on 09 Sep 2005

* On 2005.09.09, in <20050909162511.GA11740@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.xx.xx>,
*	"David Cantrell" <david@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote:
> 
> And what *I* hate is that even setting TERM=vt100 or similar, which
> should turn off all the colour crap what with vt100s being monochrome,
> generally doesn't because the terminal emulators suck so hard.

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.

Guiltily,
-- 
 -D.    dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx        NSIT    University of Chicago

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David Cantrell 17:25 on 09 Sep 2005
- David Champion 17:39 on 09 Sep 2005
  - Luke Kanies 19:13 on 09 Sep 2005
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Chris Devers 21:02 on 09 Sep 2005
- sabrina downard 21:16 on 09 Sep 2005
David Champion 23:46 on 09 Sep 2005

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