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Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by inetknght »

theamk wrote: post #7

That’s pretty nasty - this article is factually incorrect in probably the worst way: the code will work on author’s computer, but not for other people [0] Not to mention that it is missing “good citizen” features like turning off colors when stdout is not a tty. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18125374

> “good citizen” features like turning off colors when stdout is not a tty.

Better solution: do not detect whether your output is a tty or not.

Let the user decide they want colors or not by using `--color=always` or `--color=never` or similar.

There's few things worse than writing a script and getting different output just because you're no longer running the program interactively.

Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by 8fGTBjZxBcHq »

ablekh wrote: post #10

The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.

why is it disturbing it reads fine to me

Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by n3t »

theamk wrote: post #7

That’s pretty nasty - this article is factually incorrect in probably the worst way: the code will work on author’s computer, but not for other people [0] Not to mention that it is missing “good citizen” features like turning off colors when stdout is not a tty. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18125374

> (...) the code will work on author’s computer, but not for other people

Is it actually the case?

The comment you cite says the code won't work on xterm or gnome-terminal.

I've checked with what I had available: XTerm(330) and GNOME Terminal 3.30.1 using VTE 0.54.1. On both terminals the last code sample from the post works perfectly fine as far as I can tell.

What terminal should I use to see improper behavior of the program?

Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by brian_cloutier »

ablekh wrote: post #10

The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.

What is ridiculous and disturbing about using lowercase letters at the beginning of your sentences? In a world where this trend continues your eye will become used to it and it will no longer be a distracting shock from what your eye is used to.

Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by ropers »

ablekh wrote: post #10

The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.

Here are a few seventh bits (01000000, \100, 64, 0x40) for your ANDing pleasure, so you can pull a Timothy Dexter and peper and solt it as you plese: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by jjoonathan »

brian_cloutier wrote: post #14
ablekh wrote: post #10

The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.

What is ridiculous and disturbing about using lowercase letters at the beginning of your sentences? In a world where this trend continues your eye will become used to it and it will no longer be a distracting shock from what your eye is used to.

In a world where everyone has terrible body odor, your nose will become used to it and it will no longer be a distracting shock.

Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by jjoonathan »

ropers wrote: post #15
ablekh wrote: post #10

The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.

Here are a few seventh bits (01000000, \100, 64, 0x40) for your ANDing pleasure, so you can pull a Timothy Dexter and peper and solt it as you plese: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

> for your ANDing pleasure

Oh?

Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by ropers »

jjoonathan wrote: post #17
ropers wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here are a few seventh bits (01000000, \100, 64, 0x40) for your ANDing pleasure, so you can pull a Timothy Dexter and peper and solt it as you plese: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

> for your ANDing pleasure Oh?

It turns out I'm an idiot. I should have provided sixth bits (00100000, \040, 32, 0x20) for your XORing pleasure:

%20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20

My mistake.

Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by ablekh »

ropers wrote: post #15
ablekh wrote: post #10

The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.

Here are a few seventh bits (01000000, \100, 64, 0x40) for your ANDing pleasure, so you can pull a Timothy Dexter and peper and solt it as you plese: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Perhaps, I'm dumb as rock, but what does your comment have to do with what I originally wrote above?

Re: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

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Post by ablekh »

brian_cloutier wrote: post #14
ablekh wrote: post #10

The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.

What is ridiculous and disturbing about using lowercase letters at the beginning of your sentences? In a world where this trend continues your eye will become used to it and it will no longer be a distracting shock from what your eye is used to.

If this is your argument supporting this trend, then I'm speechless ...
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