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Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100 |
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Tue, 20 Apr 1999 05:29:59 -0400 (EDT) |
> In a recent note, Ismael Cordeiro said:
>
> > Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:13:21 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > > then a "vt100 emulator" cannot support color, because it is no longer a
> > > vt100 emulator.
> >
> > `A la lettre, you're right but they are VT100 emulators _and_ support
> > color.
> >
> 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).
> -- gil
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Thomas E. Dickey
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- lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/04/18
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, dickey, 1999/04/18
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/04/19
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/04/19
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, pg, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100,
dickey <=
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, mattack, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, mattack, 1999/04/20
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Klaus Weide, 1999/04/21
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/04/21
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/04/21
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, mattack, 1999/04/21
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx, colors and VT100, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/04/22