On 2026-09-16 04:48, Pádraig Brady wrote:
I'll think so more about it.
More food for thought: I ran into this problem in a different way just
now, when running on Fedora 44. I ran emacs, then typed 'M-x man RET cat
RET'. My screen ended up containing text that looks like the following,
which was offputting (and was particularly embarrassing as I was demoing
Emacs for a student...).
Could we simply disable this stuff for now, when outputting to a
non-tty? If we come up with something better later that's fine, but in
the meantime the downsides of these escape sequences seem to outweigh
the upsides, at least for me.
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DESCRIPTION
Concatenate FILE(s) to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
^[]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cat-A^[\-A,
--show-all^[]8;;^[\
equivalent to -vET
^[]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cat-b^[\-b,
--number-nonblank^[]8;;^[\
number nonempty output lines, overrides -n
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