On: ANSI escape codes (2019)

[watersb]

I was playing with vttest today. Odd terminal emulator features.

Vttest: https://invisible-island.net/vttest/

[tyingq → watersb]

You can also download the "vt100 torture test" file and "cat" it. http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/vt100test.txt

[cout → watersb]

I really like vttest. I used to use it when I was still working on Console Telnet for Win32 (https://github.com/cout/consoletelnet). It revealed a lot of bugs in how escape sequences were handled that I might never have noticed since they were obscure (yet important) corner cases.

[rbanffy → watersb]

Apple's Terminal.app is one of the very few that can pass all tests.

Sadly, it doesn't do SGR 53 overlines. If anyone at Apple is listening, plese, do it.

[watersb → rbanffy]

I haven't tried the escape codes for terminal window movement recently, but I used to use them for window tiling. Terminal.app used them just fine.

[Jaruzel → watersb]

I've (edited and) compiled VTTEST to run under Windows. The latest iteration of the Command Prompt does surprisingly well in the tests. Of course the new Windows Terminal does well too.