And hard-coding terminal escape codes intrinsically tie you to a VT102-derivative (because no one would hard-code VT-52 terminal codes) and that'd stop (say) my

And hard-coding terminal escape codes intrinsically tie you to a VT102-derivative (because no one would hard-code VT-52 terminal codes) and that'd stop (say) my HP terminal from working. Sure, going with VT102-family codes probably covers somewhere between four and seven 9s of cases, but...