• iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    For some reason I remember a lot of ANSI terminal escape codes. They were used all the time on DOS machines, and work in a similar way on Unix terminals.

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      3 months ago

      I like the bell one. It’s useful to print a few of those at the end of what you expect will be a long program run to get your attention when it’s done.

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        3 months ago

        It’s a good idea, although some terminals will pause output when they play the sound. I always disable any sound from my terminal anyway, because computers should be seen and not heard. 😆

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          3 months ago

          Oh interesting. I tried turning off sound and now ctl-g flashes the terminal instead. (Fwiw I’m using the built-in terminal on a Mac.)

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      3 months ago

      They don’t work on windows terminals?? I only use the color ones but I will be devastated if it turns out they only work in Linux.

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        3 months ago

        I’m not sure since I haven’t really used Windows for 20 years or so. I don’t think though, since there are separate CURSES libraries for Windows which don’t operate using escape sequences.