Re: Potential enhancements to install-font.sh from https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/bin/install-font.sh

[John Gardner]

> You don't even have to learn the details of the escape codes with their
> inscrutable syntax an unmemorizable numerical codes.

I'm sorry, \x1B[4;1mwhat?\x1B[24;21m

On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 07:55, G. Branden Robinson <
address@hidden> wrote:

> At 2020-04-29T17:04:31-0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > If I were publishing it, I'd remove the VT100 escape codes, and format
> > my if statements without semicolons:
> >
> >       if [ foo ]
> >       then
> >               bar
> >       fi
> >
> > because that's what Steven Bourne intended.  ;-)
>
> I second the Bourne "brace style"; after many years resisting it I
> finally gave in.
>
> There's nothing wrong with SGR escapes as long as uses them portably.
> You don't even have to learn the details of the escape codes with their
> inscrutable syntax an unmemorizable numerical codes.
>
> You can see an example here, in lines 42-118:
>
> https://github.com/seL4/seL4_tools/blob/master/cmake-tool/griddle
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>