Re:Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
by rbanffy on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:31AM
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Using curses also allows it to work on terminals that are not ANSI terminals (even though most of the actual hardware that still survives understand most of the VT-100 sequences).
Also, not all terminals have uniform coverage for ANSI codes. Apple's Terminal.App does a good job with double-width and double-height, but lacks the SGR 53 overline that VTE, Konsole and Microsoft Windows Terminal have (and that makes status lines so much better).
Also, not all terminals have uniform coverage for ANSI codes. Apple's Terminal.App does a good job with double-width and double-height, but lacks the SGR 53 overline that VTE, Konsole and Microsoft Windows Terminal have (and that makes status lines so much better).