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Re: Add five new escape sequences to wscons



On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 09:31:35AM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> > Here is a patch to implement five additional escape sequences in the
> > wscons vt100 emulation.
> 
> Not to pick on this particular addition...but is it really still
> appropriate to call it "vt100"?

Not really :-).

> It's not a very good VT-100 emulation,
> handling a bunch of sequences differently from VT-100s (mostly things
> wscons implements but VT-100s don't) and having a handful of other
> mismatches (such as supporting sizes other than 80x24 and 132x24).

A lot of the sequences that it supports are from later VT-series terminals.


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