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by ComputerGuru 2200 days ago
Oh, I just saw your reply after posting my own, though you beat me to it by quite some margin of time. That's correct, fish sends ^[[K to clear to the EOL after correctly setting the cursor position via this hack to erase any evidence of the hack and for posterity of your ptty contents.
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JdeBP 2199 days ago
Beware of using EL when the inverse video attribute is on.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/586458/5132

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ComputerGuru 2199 days ago
Fantastic rabbit hole to dive into, thanks for linking!

The "good news" is that you can't even use tput rev under fish because it saves and restores attributes each time it regains control of the tty with very few exceptions , rev not being one of them. You can't break what you don't even support!

(Seriously though, we should add rev support.)

EDIT: I just saw that you're the same person that answered that post, which very much deserved the upvote. Your knowledge of tty behavior is impressive. It is also rare to find another person that cares about the kvt - a lot of apps that manipulate terminal attributes or use any vte codes are completely broken under even the well-written kernel virtual terminals.

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JdeBP 2198 days ago
If you want another rabbit hole with respect to supporting attributes, consider that the Windows Terminal people are considering adding ECMA-48 standards conformance that no other terminal emulator has, the various graphic renditions from ECMA-48:1991 that no-one else has implemented in 30 years. (I saw the issue and added overline, framed, and encircled to my terminal emulator's framebuffer front-end. It will be in version 1.41 of the toolset, but that is not out yet.)

* https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6000

* https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6205

It brought me up short to be described as caring about KVTs. (-: I've mooted doing VTs in application mode code for a couple of decades, now. Here's a white paper from 2006, which was several years in.

* http://jdebp.uk./Proposals/linux-console-daemon.html

I must update that test script for Windows Terminal.

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