_rmcx

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1. 1.▲
   by _rmcx 4y ago

   > Have you considered that many of us want ansi codes in the pipeline? Yes I have. Using /dev/tty doesn't stop an application's author from adding a --color that lets their program send color codes to stdout. But if t
2. 2.▲
   by _rmcx 4y ago

   > This is my first time hearing of this functionality. I was also surprised when I discovered this. IMO this should be used everywhere but I've rarely seen it. > How does it work with buffered stdout? For example, if you wanted t
3. 3.▲
   by _rmcx 4y ago

   One thing that the author doesn't seem to know about is /dev/tty. In the article the escape codes are just sent to stdout. Though an awful lot of applications (including the greatest ones) do this, IMHO this is wrong. The ter