Thomas Dickey wrote: > By the way, Bela's assumptions do not work for "all" VT100-wannabe's > (e.g., KDE konsole), as discussed here: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-05/msg00030.html > > But that's a bug report for someone else...
I don't actually see how that ncurses post relates directly to my script. But, I also see that my script has some SCO ANSI sequences which can't be expected to do what I intended anywhere but an SCO OpenServer console! Updated version below. >Bela< ======================================================================== #!/bin/sh # ^ any POSIX shell, but not really old pre-POSIX Bourne sh row_of() { width=$1 column=1 while [ $column -le $columns ]; do printf %s "$2" column=$((column + width)) done printf "\b\b\b\b$CR\n" } columns=${1:-${COLUMNS:-$(stty -a </dev/tty | sed -n 's/.*columns[ =]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p')}} CR=$(printf "\r") TAB=$(printf "\t") ESC=$(printf "\033") CSI="${ESC}[" CSIS="$CSI=" # CSIS 3L = SCO ANSI 'Set Emulation Feature' 3 'Enable iBCS2 compliance' # -- on SCO OpenServer, this is required to enable CAT if [ SCO_SV = "$(uname -s 2>&1)" ]; then SCOiBCS2="${CSIS}3L" else SCOiBCS2= fi # CSI 3g = CAT (Clear All Tabs) CAT="${SCOiBCS2}${CSI}3g" printf "BEFORE v$CR\n"; row_of 8 "T$TAB" printf "$CAT$CR"; row_of 8 "${ESC}H+ " row_of 8 "T$TAB" printf "AFTER ^\n" _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev