From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22484 invoked by alias); 1 Jan 2015 23:27:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 19649 Received: (qmail 9791 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2015 23:27:13 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=CoYIqc8G c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=FT8er97JFeGWzr5TCOCO5w==:117 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=q2GGsy2AAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=YNv0rlydsVwA:10 a=hW-Dsym3S4TMkNzB1gAA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 From: Bart Schaefer Message-id: <150101152642.ZM27281@torch.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:26:42 -0800 In-reply-to: <54A5D21F.1090701@eastlink.ca> Comments: In reply to Ray Andrews "Re: print color escapes" (Jan 1, 3:02pm) References: <54A4DF80.7040206@eastlink.ca> <141231223506.ZM26289@torch.brasslantern.com> <54A59EE5.7000601@eastlink.ca> <150101132931.ZM27115@torch.brasslantern.com> <54A5D21F.1090701@eastlink.ca> X-Mailer: OpenZMail Classic (0.9.2 24April2005) To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: print color escapes MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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.