On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:25:19AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote
> Escape sequences have been designed for communication with peripheral
> devices, not for markup or as a storage format.
>
> Also "future colorful display" generally won't be portabe because
> escape sequences depend on the setting of the TERM variable. (And
> again, software that emits them with TERM=dumb or TERM unset is
> broken.)
Similar to...
USE="foo bar" emerge blah blah blah
...can the average user do something like...
TERM="dumb" emerge blah blah blah
I don't believe very many users or admins babysit an entire 2 hour
"emerge --deep --update @world" session, hitting {CTRL-S} when some
colour pops up. In my case, I examine /var/log/portage/elog after the
emerge finishes, successfully or unsuccessfully. And I don't use an
"editor" to view log files. I use mc (Midnight Commander) which views
plain text, but doesn't decode ANSI. A nice feature of mc is that I can
sort the file list by various options. When looking at emerge output in
/var/log/portage/elog, I want to sort by file-modify-time, so I can
easily see which files were output in the most recent emerge run.
--
Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
