[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #9024] Colour-coded output text

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #15, patch #9024 (project octave):

Thanks, Philip.

The command window is completely different in posix and windows.  I'm not sure
why it has to be; they just forked from different applications (Konsole for
posix and cygwin for Windows).  I think that it would be good to try to port
Konsole to Windows, because it also has some support for hyperlinks.  (I'm
currently working on hyperlinking error messages to open the editor at the
right position.)

The big advantage of using escape sequences is that the pager will set the
colours each time it redraws the screen to go backwards or forwards.  I don't
think that is possible if the mechanism to set the colour is not based on the
character stream itself.  Having said that, the reason for having a new class
rather than just storing a list of escape sequences is to allow that sort of
flexibility, if it turns out to be necessary.

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