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

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Daniel Burrows wrote:
>   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.

Hm, I've written slang programs that catch escape, not to mention jed
catches escape, and there are certianly a large number of curses programs
that do - all falvors of vi (of course!), dialog, and probably a slew more.

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