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|   | A STATEMENT ON LEGACY SUPPORT | |||
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|  | In the terminal world there is much cruft that comes from old and unsup‐ | |||
|  | ported terminals that inherit incompatible modes  and  escape  sequences | |||
|  | which noone is able to know, except when he/she comes from that time and | |||
|  | developed a graphical vt100 emulator at that time. | |||
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|  | One  goal  of  st is to only support what is really needed. When you en‐ | |||
|  | counter a sequence which you really need, implement it.  But  while  you | |||
|  | are  add it, do not add the other cruft you might encounter while sneek‐ | |||
|  | ing at other terminal emulators. History has bloated them and  there  is | |||
|  | no real evidence that most of the sequences are used today. | |||
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|  | Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net> | |||
|  | 2012-09-13T07:00:36.081271045+02:00 | |||
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