Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:32:35 +1030 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hence the proposal of using definite start and end markers: > > echo -e '\x1B43m\x1D wonderful \x1B0m\x1D' | cosmicrays | cat
I see no merit in the idea. Most seriously, there isn't any real-world problem being solved. In addition, it proposes creating yet another type of terminal emulation. If there's something you don't like about VT escape codes, use a different emulation. For example, Televideo terminals used almost exclusively single-character control codes, reducing the scope of being mid-sequence to, well much closer to zero.
You need to make quite clear that your proposal is to discontinue use of VT terminal emulation.
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