From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:11:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix display overlap between remote and local progress
Message-ID: <7v4pg1sj1r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711041610520.21255@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> 
>> > +#define SUFFIX "\e[K"  /* change to "        " if ANSI sequences don't work */ 
>> 
>> I am almost certain (without even testing) that cmd.exe has problems with 
>> that.  It does not even understand colorisation.
>
> That's what I was expecting.  This is why I suggested an alternative in 
> the comment.

That's fine --- cmd.exe weenies can patch it away ;-).

The compiler at k.org complains of "\e" being non ISO-C, though.