Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-23 Thread James K. Lowden
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 01:29:07 +0200 Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > Raw VT-100 escape sequences, in 2016. Where will it all end? > > Steering wheels. On cars. In 2016. Where will it all end? > > Seriously: what's wrong with escape codes? I mean, if you're > still working with a text terminal, I

Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-23 Thread Larry Kollar
> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > > |still working with a text terminal, I'd expect escape codes to > |be your daily bread and butter, not something to scoff at. > |(Unless I'm missing the good-natured, approving irony here?) > > Yah! It seems control codes won't go away, Unicode adds > some

Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-23 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ingo Schwarze wrote: |Tadziu Hoffmann wrote on Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 01:29:07AM +0200: .. |> And regarding the |> "ready-to-use solution" that has "long been available": |> for the most part, the semantic information is simply not |> encoded in the manpages. | |That is true for the Linux m

Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-23 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: |> Raw VT-100 escape sequences, in 2016. Where will it all end? | |Steering wheels. On cars. In 2016. Where will it all end? I hope not for joysticks, or maybe only for cars driven by women. Instead something more motorcyclish, where both hands can do something. |S