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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: print color escapes
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:26:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <150101152642.ZM27281@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54A5D21F.1090701@eastlink.ca>

On Jan 1,  3:02pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} But terminal will always grab ESC 'hard' will it not?  That is to say 
} that no matter how you dress it up, the terminal always sees it 
} verbatim.

Yes, but ESC only means something to the terminal when it is followed
"soon enough" (temporally) by the series of characters that forms a
terminal escape.  (Sometimes that's only one character.)

} And I'd expect that that convention is now written in stone.

It's an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard dating
back a few decades, so yeah, not likely to change.

} BTW too bad in some fonts '' looks almost exactly like ".

Sometimes I just get tired of typing ellipses.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-01 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-01  5:47 Ray Andrews
2015-01-01  6:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-01 19:24   ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-01 21:29     ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-01 23:02       ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-01 23:26         ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2015-01-02  2:30           ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02  2:45             ` Kurtis Rader
2015-01-02  3:50               ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02  4:18                 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-02 17:43                   ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02  1:21         ` Kurtis Rader
2015-01-02  2:39           ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02  2:58             ` Kurtis Rader
2015-01-02  3:48               ` Ray Andrews

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