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by traverseda 3455 days ago
Is adding those features in a backwards compatible way really that important? Couldn't you just have a program send an escape code telling your term to go into "new" mode, and implement some completely different standard?

Or I suppose use terminfo, but I like the idea of dealing with text streams better.

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> Or I suppose use terminfo

What do you think terminfo does?!