On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Nezmer <git@nezmer.info> wrote:
Let me ask a simple question: Is there a real-life example where this patch would be beneficial to me as user?
Is there someone who would like to run the next version of pacman on a 10 or 15 year old term definition?
cons25 is probably the worst $TERM that is actually used nowadays and It can handle colour escapes.
I remember an Arch developer missing makepkg colours in his chroots with the latest pacman release. Failing back to colour escapes fixed that too.
Is there a $TERM that can't handle colour escapes and It is actually used?
Well, yes. Chances are your terminal can output color with those escapes. So it is not beneficial if you happen to be part of the (large) majority of users that are you using modern terminals. You're right. But the code, by admission, would be taking a condition for granted. I don't think that's a good compromise, specially for the sake of eye candy.