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Re: Are there two families of escapes sequences?


From: Paul Gilmartin
Subject: Re: Are there two families of escapes sequences?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:38:17 -0600
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On 10/27/14 13:28, legalize+jeeves wrote:
The \E] part is (see ECMA-48) an OSC (operating system command).
Ah... my eyes kept misreading it as \E[, not \E].
PMFJI, perhaps way late.  In my recollection, from trying to debug
a terminal emulator, decades ago:

o VT100 has two distinct modes:
  - one used by shell commands.
  - the other used by vi, etc.
  Curses may not need to deal with the former.  And:

o ESC sequences are time sensitive.  Vi uses ESC to exit text insertion
  mode, distinguishing that use from ESC sequences generated by arrow
  keys, etc. by the presence or absence of a pause after the ESC.  I
  can't imagine how this plays with the possibility that network packets
  may by happenstance be split right after the ESC.

-- gil




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