[gentoo-user] Re: Globally Disable Prompt Formatting, In All Programs Everywhere For All Time

2018-05-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-05-16 16:11, R0b0t1 wrote: > Is the only way to find every program that generates escape sequences > and disable it? What about kernel messages during boot? I was going to suggest setting TERM=dumb in the environment, but ... already the first program I tried (equery) doesn't honor it, so

[gentoo-user] Globally Disable Prompt Formatting, In All Programs Everywhere For All Time

2018-05-16 Thread R0b0t1
Hello, This has come up on this list a few times in slightly more restricted forms. Today, I feel the need to ask about how to Globally Disable Prompt Formatting, In All Programs Everywhere For All Time. The issue is that over some transports, e.g. a debug serial link, with an actual serial port,