Re: Detecting if a terminal can do reverse video

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Nov 16), Mike Aubury said:
> Or more to the point - that it can't!
> 
> Is there any easy way to detect this ? 
> 
> Background..
> I need to add some emphasis to the "current" menu option which I'm
> doing by making it in REVERSE video, but some terminals can't do
> reverse, so I'm supposed to put "[" and "]" around the option. I've
> got the code working with an environment variable, but it'd be nice
> if I could just detect it...

The belt-and-suspenders way would be to do both :)  That way it works
even in odd cases like "start a screen session with a reverse-capable
terminal, detach, reattach with a noreverse terminal".

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        Dan Nelson
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