>>>>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:21:52 -0500 > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I can see why someone might want to use escape codes for color >> displays, etc. However, imo, escape codes do not belong in log files. > They belong there so future display can remain colorful. > Why do they not belong there? What do people have to do who want > them? Escape sequences have been designed for communication with peripheral devices, not for markup or as a storage format. Also "future colorful display" generally won't be portabe because escape sequences depend on the setting of the TERM variable. (And again, software that emits them with TERM=dumb or TERM unset is broken.) Ulrich
