Hey, thanks for the contact. That's an interesting observation. I'm curious -- what sort of terminal support ANSI-like attributes (color, bold etc.) but not the ANSI escape sequences? I.e. if I output ANSI directly, I'm running the risk of breaking what?
At Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:30:01 +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > but the latter will also work on other terminals. It's horrible when > commands hard-code ANSI escape sequences, e.g. the otherwise good > dstat(1). I think it's pretty common these days, though. I took a quick peek and ls, grep, colordiff and git all hard-code ANSI. -- Leonardo Boiko—SI http://www.ime.usp.br/~leoboiko
