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Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption

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Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> writes:
> "G.K." <g@k.invalid> writes:
>> Another distinction occurs to me that might ease the problem
>> requirement. Is there a cheap way to distinguish between control codes
>> and formatting codes (color, foreground, background, underline,
>> blinkenlights) codes in a text stream.
>
> 'less -R' does something along those lines. I don't know if the
> filtering code is conveniently separable from the rest of 'less', but
> it might be a start: somebody else has already done the work of making a
> set of decisions about which codes count in which category.

Anything the source thinks should be displayed in black on black should
not be trusted. Therefore you should prefer ``-r or --raw-control-chars''
to ``-R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS''.

Phil
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? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption "G.K." <g@k.invalid> - 2023-03-05 03:19 -0600
  Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-03-05 09:59 -0700
  Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2023-03-06 04:42 +0000
    Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2023-03-06 06:25 +0000
    Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption "G.K." <g@k.invalid> - 2023-03-06 01:25 -0600
      Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption "G.K." <g@k.invalid> - 2023-03-06 01:31 -0600
      Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> - 2023-03-06 09:29 +0000
        [solved] Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption "G.K." <g@k.invalid> - 2023-03-06 04:04 -0600
        Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2023-03-07 09:36 +0200
      Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2023-03-06 18:36 +0000
    Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-03-06 22:29 +0000
      Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-03-06 17:21 -0700
        Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-03-07 00:35 +0000
          Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-03-06 18:19 -0700
            Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-03-07 01:41 +0000
              Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-03-06 23:35 -0700
                Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption Jakob Bohm <jb-usenet@wisemo.com.invalid> - 2023-03-17 14:23 +0100
        Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-03-07 02:22 +0000
          Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-03-06 23:46 -0700
            Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-03-08 20:56 +0000
      Re: ? Unsafe terminal escape sequences and ANSI codes from decryption legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2023-03-07 05:37 +0000

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