Re: Colour support in editline

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 03:09:07AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> Yes, there is interest, but it should be done correctly. Currently this
> is difficult because the marker hack to indicate the beginning and the
> end of an escape sequence so that it is not counted as a cursor position
> does not work properly. Instead it should be replaced with something that
> works (perhaps an adjacent data structure that holds pointers to ANSI
> escape sequences or NULL for each character position in the line. That is
> memory expensive, but easy to implement.
> 

Perhaps have a look at the libcurses handling of non-spacing characters,
that tried to balance memory consumption against implementation
complexity.

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Brett Lymn
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