Re: [Groff] preserve ascii escape characters from input

[Leonardo Boiko]

Hey, thanks for the contact.  That's an interesting observation.  I'm
curious -- what sort of terminal support ANSI-like attributes (color,
bold etc.) but not the ANSI escape sequences? I.e. if I output ANSI
directly, I'm running the risk of breaking what?

At Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:30:01 +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> but the latter will also work on other terminals.  It's horrible when
> commands hard-code ANSI escape sequences, e.g. the otherwise good
> dstat(1).

I think it's pretty common these days, though.  I took a quick peek and ls,
grep, colordiff and git all hard-code ANSI.

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