Hi David, > Why the informative text output from a package manager should use > anything other than basic terminal capabilities seems to fly in the > face of the Arch KISS philosophy. As long as it's querying terminfo(5) to check for the capability and using the escape sequence presented there if it exists then that would seem fine. If it just blindly writes bytes and assumes the world can understand them... And Thomas Dickey's xterm(1) is superb in its correctness so that's the main thing to test it with. -- Cheers, Ralph.
