From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 93314 invoked by alias); 26 May 2016 16:41:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 93297 invoked by uid 89); 26 May 2016 16:41:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sounded, foreign X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 26 May 2016 16:41:36 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4565E482; Thu, 26 May 2016 16:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u4QGfXVf001998; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:41:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 24/25] Add new command to create extra console/mi UI channels To: Eli Zaretskii References: <1458573675-15478-1-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com> <1458573675-15478-25-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com> <83twjz6bex.fsf@gnu.org> <56F02689.2050503@redhat.com> <83r3f369io.fsf@gnu.org> <56F035F3.6060702@redhat.com> <3f622c77-762a-c86e-cafb-60f75a598d6c@redhat.com> <838tyw3jqw.fsf@gnu.org> <717c7233-fed2-d8bf-699e-721ff5319cdd@redhat.com> <831t4o3hfs.fsf@gnu.org> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <632fa65e-3619-cdf4-e9c8-756aa60e2cb3@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 16:41:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <831t4o3hfs.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00459.txt.bz2 On 05/26/2016 05:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org >> 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.) Yeah, agreed. I don't see it as the default any time soon, but rather an option that once sounded foreign/alien in the Windows world, and will now will start sounding normal. Thanks, Pedro Alves