>>>>> Rémi Denis-Courmont <r...@remlab.net> writes: […]
> VLC checks whether the standard output is a terminal. I find it > pretty damn idiotic for emacs to emulate a terminal but, not quite. … Could you please then point me to, say, a Braille terminal with support for colors? > It might as well use a pipe or a local socket pair then. Terminals have to do more with job control and basic (kernel’s) line editing functions, rather than ECMA-48 (AKA “ANSI”) processing or, say, pseudographics support. (Be sure to check the POSIX definition of the terminal device interface [1].) [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap11.html > Unless someone can point to a simple function in libc to check > whether ANSI color or ANSI control codes are supported, I am not > going to fix this upstream. I cannot find any standard and simple > way to hit termcap or terminfo for that purpose. Frankly, I don’t want to insist on this bug being fixed. However, I believe it should be left open (even if wontfix), at least so that the workaround below remains visible to the users. > Note that you can turn off colors with: > # vlc -H --nocolor or # vlc -H| cat TIA. -- FSF associate member #7257 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers