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Re: Blinking Commits

#21
Haha, what a coincidence. Just the other day we discussed string special cases[0][1], to which I contributed ansi escapes. Unicode "fonts" 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 seem to work in commit messages as well.

I think this is quite harmful, especially the character movement ansi escapes could be used for nefarious purposes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035008

[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...

Re: Blinking Commits

#23
post #21

Haha, what a coincidence. Just the other day we discussed string special cases[0][1], to which I contributed ansi escapes. Unicode "fonts" 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 seem to work in commit messages as well. I think this is quite harmful, especially the character movement ansi escapes could be used for nefarious purposes. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035008 [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-str…

I think this is quite harmful, especially the character movement ansi escapes could be used for nefarious purposes.

Like what?

Re: Blinking Commits

#26
post #21

Haha, what a coincidence. Just the other day we discussed string special cases[0][1], to which I contributed ansi escapes. Unicode "fonts" 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 seem to work in commit messages as well. I think this is quite harmful, especially the character movement ansi escapes could be used for nefarious purposes. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035008 [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-str…

I think this is quite harmful, especially the character movement ansi escapes could be used for nefarious purposes. Like what?

Annoying your coworkers, for one
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