Chris Bannister writes:

 > This is in a tty, so don't know what will happen in an xterm or other
 > virtual terminal.

The virtual terminals usually honour ANSI escape sequences. For sure
xterm, the rxvt family and the libvte-based ones do.

But with virtual terminals you can do something like having a
different background and foreground color (red on black is standard in
my family).

-- 
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  //--\| | \|  |   Integralista GNUslamico            meaning "I can
\/                 coltivatore diretto di software       not install
     giĆ  sistemista a tempo (altrui) perso...                Debian"

Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO


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