Re: [Help-bash] read -ep and ANSI colour sequences

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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> And whatever you do, STOP hard-coding terminal-specific escape sequences.
> This will cease working when you run it on a terminal that uses different
> escape sequences.

   I agree in principle, but for all practical purposes, there is one
   standard terminal nowadays, ISO 6429.

> This is why we have termcap/terminfo libraries and a $TERM variable.

   Which cannot be used reliably in the shell.

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