Re: print color escapes

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 1,  3:02pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} But terminal will always grab ESC 'hard' will it not?  That is to say 
} that no matter how you dress it up, the terminal always sees it 
} verbatim.

Yes, but ESC only means something to the terminal when it is followed
"soon enough" (temporally) by the series of characters that forms a
terminal escape.  (Sometimes that's only one character.)

} And I'd expect that that convention is now written in stone.

It's an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard dating
back a few decades, so yeah, not likely to change.

} BTW too bad in some fonts '' looks almost exactly like ".

Sometimes I just get tired of typing ellipses.