Re: Colors Suck.

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: Colors Suck.
Date: 19:13 on 09 Sep 2005
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.
>
> Guiltily,

/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?

-- 
One of the Ten Commandments for Technicians
        (7) Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy
            fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and
            console her in other ways.
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