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

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:15:42PM -0800, Joey Hess was heard to say:
> 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.

  Oops, you're right.  It still seems, though, that Curses should be able to
buffer the programs from the fact that the hypothetical "xterm-sane" escapes
escape this way..

  Daniel

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