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> being compatible only with ANSI-capable terminals is a feature, not a bug, go the fuck away. terminfo is a fucking joke. nobody needs to target obscure dumb terminals (or smart terminals, for that matter) from 1983 anymore. No, terminal emulators differ all over the place, especially for new features . Do you want to lock yourself in and only use the ancient ANSI codes? In, like you say, “THE TWENTY FIRST FUCKING C…
The author seems to really not like ncurses. But why? Is there something wrong with it?
The only reason I found in the article was "because jesus f. christ" (near the end). Therefore I assume the author has religious objections against nurses. /s In fact they mention various issues with their approach that nurses would fix automatically and without the user having to configure stuff in the app: > sadly, true color isn't supported on many terminals, urxvt tragically included. for this reason, your progra…
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Not all terminal emulators follow that completely. Most only include a subset and some include their own proprietary escape codes too (like iTerm and Terminology have codes for rendering images. tmux has an escape code for changing the session title). Then there's other specs not included in that doc even outside of the aforementioned proprietary codes. Like Sixel, conventions on non-POSIX terminals, etc. Also lets n…
hTerm and also IIRC kitty have image-rendering escape sequences too.
Would be good to add support for that to my image rendering library: https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/c77b893a58a682735ad7502c...
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I don't know about authoritative but this is at least iconic if not definitive http://rtfm.etla.org/xterm/ctlseq.html
This is a great table of control sequences, but the second author cited as maintainer from 1996 to 1999, Thomas Dickey, currently maintains a list at his invisible-island.net site. https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html
A while ago I was trying to find a way to make my terminal scroll back up after a command executed, so that if the output was long I could read it from the top without having to scroll up manually. There are ways to get yours shell to print something after the command executes, so I just needed to find an ansi escape sequence that would scroll up. Unfortunately I didn't see any sequences that do this. Anyone have any…
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https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard...
Not all terminal emulators follow that completely. Most only include a subset and some include their own proprietary escape codes too (like iTerm and Terminology have codes for rendering images. tmux has an escape code for changing the session title). Then there's other specs not included in that doc even outside of the aforementioned proprietary codes. Like Sixel, conventions on non-POSIX terminals, etc. Also lets n…
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The relevant ECMA standards are full of crazy bullshit that, to the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever implemented in any hardware or software terminal, like control sequences to make lines of text run vertically (SPD), or to fully justify text (JFY), or to use a Fraktur font (SGR 20). They're also incomplete -- they go into very little detail explaining what various control sequences should do, especially in exce…
Hi I'm one of the people cited by the article. Fraktur is awesome. I implemented it in my terminal. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/c6bbca55e9f977e386... Now that unicode makes it easy, there's no excuse not to have fraktur!
This isn't me being critical in what you've done though. More of an adjacent commentary about the state of ANSI escape sequences.
I built a cross platform app to print 'pretty formatted' source code [1]. I didn't want to re-invent the wheel on formatting source code, so looked at all the existing libraries. Originally I figured formatting to HTML, and then building a print-friendly HTML render would work. But this proved super challenging. I tried a dozen HTML engines (including Chromium) but none gave me enough control to render just a single…
Nothing like as powerful as your app and entirely tangential to the topic of ANSI escapes, but my preferred way to generate HTML from source code is simply:
vim +TOhtml +wq +q path/to/source/file.ext