Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Radovan Garabik was heard to say:
> An elegant solution wouldbe to use escape only as a character "escaping" the next
> char, i.e. prefix for control chars, and what we know as an escape character
> would be represented as Esc Esc.
> 
> But this would probably break up almost all applications....

  It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to actually
catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it).  So (a) if curses (and
slang?) were modified to handle this, most programs would inherit the changes,
and (b) even among the programs that do their own termcap handling, most
wouldn't be affected.

  So -- proof by handwaving that it would work fine..

  Daniel

-- 
  I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not sure.