Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] color: support strike-through attribute

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2016, 19:11 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqd1n7iuty.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160623190414.GA568@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> Hmm. I see the same thing screen and with tmux, as well (though I don't
> usually use either myself). I suspect they have to filter ANSI codes
> because they're using the codes themselves (so anything that moves the
> cursor is going to be a definite problem), and strike-through probably
> just isn't common enough to have been added to the whitelist.

screen needs to do a full emulation, not working as a passthru. It pretends to be a VT100/ANSI and attempt to show on non-VT100/ANSI terminal via termcap/terminfo ;-)

So it is understandable that the omitted support for less common ones.

But we are straying deep into an uninteresting (to the list) tangent, so let's stop it here.