On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:25:19AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote > 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.)
Similar to... USE="foo bar" emerge blah blah blah ...can the average user do something like... TERM="dumb" emerge blah blah blah I don't believe very many users or admins babysit an entire 2 hour "emerge --deep --update @world" session, hitting {CTRL-S} when some colour pops up. In my case, I examine /var/log/portage/elog after the emerge finishes, successfully or unsuccessfully. And I don't use an "editor" to view log files. I use mc (Midnight Commander) which views plain text, but doesn't decode ANSI. A nice feature of mc is that I can sort the file list by various options. When looking at emerge output in /var/log/portage/elog, I want to sort by file-modify-time, so I can easily see which files were output in the most recent emerge run. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications