On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 23:07:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
try, esp. if you're dealing with Unix terminals, which are many and varied, and have all sorts of idiosyncrasies that make it a pain to write a generic library that works for everything.
Does anybody really care about everything? Unix has de-facto standardized on vt100 emulators, and among them, there's only a few variants I'd care about: xterm, rxvt, gnu screen, putty, and the linux console.
The differences are now brought way down to size, and we can use some of the more interesting extensions without worrying about lowest common denominator dragging us down.
And then doing Windows (or DOS) is pretty easy to match and perhaps exceed it.
