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Date:      Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:03:12 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r214817 - head/sys/teken
Message-ID:  <4CD39E20.1000402@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101105012103.GA26789@freebsd.org>
References:  <201011050056.oA50uLk5078426@svn.freebsd.org> <20101105012103.GA26789@freebsd.org>

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on 05/11/2010 03:21 Alexander Best said the following:
> On Fri Nov  5 10, Ed Schouten wrote:
>> Author: ed
>> Date: Fri Nov  5 00:56:21 2010
>> New Revision: 214817
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/214817
>>
>> Log:
>>   Partially implement the mysterious cons25 \e[x escape sequence.
>>   
>>   It seems the terminfo library on some systems (OS X, Linux) may emit the
>>   sequence \e[x to reset to default attributes. Apart from using the
>>   zero-command, this escape sequence allows many more operations, such as
>>   setting ANSI colors. I don't see this used anywhere, so this should be
>>   sufficient for now.
>>   
>>   This deficiency was spotted by the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. They have their
>>   own patch, which is slightly flawed in my opinion. I don't know why they
>>   never reported this issue to us.
> 
> maybe, because nearly all PRs (most of them including patches) they have
> submitted via GNATS in the past remain unnoticed and thus they've gotten tired
> of reporting issues and submitting patches if nobody seems to care? ;)

Pity that they haven't discovered the mailing lists.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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