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Re: [PATCH v2 24/25] Add new command to create extra console/mi UI channels
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 19:36:07 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 24/25] Add new command to create extra console/mi UI channels
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 17:03:33 +0100
>
> >> BTW, while investigating this, I found that since some recent
> >> update to Windows 10, Windows consoles now supports ansi/vt100
> >> escape sequences, finally:
> >>
> >> http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28v1511%29-Console-Host-Enhancements
> >>
> >> This further reinforces to me the idea of using ansi escapes on
> >> Windows Eclipse/gdb too.
> >
> > Not sure how that is related, since the emulator is not a console for
> > the program that runs on it.
>
> I mean that going forward, with that, it won't sound so strange for
> native Windows console applications to output ansi escape sequences
> instead of using the console APIs to control cursor positioning, etc.
Perhaps in 5 or 10 years, when previous Windows versions are no longer
important. But not until then, IMO. (My main development machine
still runs XPSP3, FWIW.)