Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Trass3r" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:op.v2zhq60v3ncmek@enigma... > >> I see. You mean using curses if available and falling back to ISO/IEC > >> 6429. So you think that supporting ISO/IEC 6429 terminals is too > >> limited, aren't you? > > > > Well I personally only care about bash and Windoze console. I guess these > > support ISO 6429?! > > Windows console windows don't, oddly enough. Even though MS-DOS did if you > had ANSI.SYS loaded. > > And, maybe I'm wrong, but I would think that shell interpreter wouldn't have > anything to do with whether or not ANSI escape codes are avilable. Isn't > that more a matter of terminal program (ie, xterm, vs...umm, all those > others...)
Yes. The shell has nothing to do with it. As far as I understand it even ncurses uses terminfo to send the appropriate escape sequences. I just will load the library at runtime. But I wonder what's the general interest and whether it makes sense as a module. Jens
