From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53691BC0B for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:11:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp6-g19.free.fr (smtp6-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.36]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0LHBues001039 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:11:57 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (che78-2-82-237-71-191.fbx.proxad.net [82.237.71.191]) by smtp6-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DCB437D9; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:11:56 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45B39EDB.9020907@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:11:55 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Cooper Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] color on linux terminal References: <20070113205636.GB24042@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070113205636.GB24042@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 45B39EDD.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 escapes:01 blabla:01 pet:98 unix:01 caml-list:01 supported:01 color:97 terminal:04 xavier:06 xavier:06 inria:06 long:06 uses:06 linux:06 > This is my biggest "pet peeve" about OCaml. It uses *decimal* escapes > for characters, Hexadecimal is also supported ("\x1b[31m blabla") and highly recommended. > not octal like everywhere else in the UNIX and C-influenced universe. Well, how many fingers do you have? :-) Octal is a left-over from the PDP-11 days and should have been abandoned a long time ago. - Xavier Leroy