[TUHS] INed/Rand Editor/Ned [was Re: My EuroBSDcon talk (preview for commentary)

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2019-09-16T17:16:12+0100, Warner Losh wrote:
> I got to look at the source to a few other editors of the era. All has
> the terminal codes hard coded into them... it was common to do that
> before things like termcap...

It's still common today.  Everything the developer cares to think about,
let alone test on, interprets EMCA-48 SGR escape sequences.  My favorite
recent example is "spectre-meltdown-checker", which has such edifying
lines as:

        _info_nol "> \033[46m\033[30mSTATUS:\033[0m "

Why write something portable when you can be "close to the metal"?  :-/

I gently steer people to better ways when the occasion presents itself.

Regards,
Branden
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