Ken wrote: > But it occurs to me that we shouldn't actually do any of this for a > "don't count this" format escape, because that stuff should live > outside of the normal string handling routines in fmt_scan(). Also, > I'm with Tom that I'm not so crazy about putting knowledge of ANSI > escape sequences directly into fmt_scan(), because who knows if your > terminal supports them?
Agreed. > David, do you want to implement this? Will do. Any suggestions on what to call the escape function? "esc" was might first thought but it might be confusing to talk about/describe in the man page. "fmtesc"? "invisible"? David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
