The issue is handled both by Emacs and Acme by eschewing the terminal. Instead they use the shell (and direct command execution) for commands. So that means no

The issue is handled both by Emacs and Acme by eschewing the terminal. Instead they use the shell (and direct command execution) for commands. So that means no terminfo/termcap, ncurses, and escape codes (but Emacs have a library to parse some ansi codes).