[BusyBox] [PATCH] New comm applet

[Rainer Weikusat]

Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> writes:

[...]

> And yes, less is cool.  I'd personally prefer one that didn't mess
> with $TERM or curses and just belted out ANSI sequences (a >20 year
> old standard everything out there understands)...

This assumption is wrong. The last time I was forced to use a genuine
text terminal that did not support ANSI escape sequences was about two
years ago. Emacs supplies a 'dumb' terminal in shell mode. Different
terminal emulators have different bugs in there control code.