Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: colored diffs [Was: [PATCH] parent selector 'p:xxx']

[Zack Weinberg]

On 10/8/07, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'd suggest a set of Lua hooks that know the necessary escape
> > sequences for the most common TERM= settings (xterm, etc) and can
> > query the 'tput' utility for less common ones.
>
> Before going this route, could you expand on "hardwiring VT220 color
> control codes would be bad"?  Are there any terminals we actually care
> about that this would fail on?

I was under the impression that the control codes for 256-color xterm
were significantly different than the codes for VT220; for instance.

But if the grep and ls maintainers have decided that VT220 codes plus
whitelist is good enough for them, then that's good enough for me too.
:-)

zw