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Re: Detecting if a terminal can do reverse video
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William McBrine |
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Re: Detecting if a terminal can do reverse video |
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Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:54:30 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Mike Aubury wrote:
> Or more to the point - that it can't!
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> Is there any easy way to detect this ?
The canonical way is termattrs(), though it's only as accurate as the
terminfo description.
Perhaps you could prompt the user at startup -- print some reversed text
and ask them if it shows up reversed?
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William McBrine <address@hidden>