Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> > One thing that matters is that not only must the "emulator" support
> > color, but curses must support generating the color escape sequences for
> > that emulator, which means in turn that the termcap/terminfo for that
> > TERM type must define those color escape sequences. This is likely not
> > to be under the control of the "emulator" author.
> 
> not to worry.  slang has a private interface that makes it "work". sort of
> like the html abuse that people on this list complain about from time to
> time. (but when you have a public/standard interface, the private
> interfaces just get in the way - they're nothing more than fancy bugs).

I would call them "nice features" instead of "fancy bugs".

Ismael
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