Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:22:51 +0300
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:19:49 -0400
> 
> This patch adds support for acting on ecma-48 commands and support
> for cursor motion commands.  Other commands can be supported using
> the current output method.

Shouldn't the escape sequences supported by this emulation be
available to termcap functions such as tgetstr via the same mechanism
you already implemented for extended keys?

> But I think color support would require the direct video method ala
> conio.

Not necessarily: BIOS tty functions support color.  (Let me know if
you want more details about this.)  So this is basically a design
decision.  One disadvantage of conio is its large footprint which you
might want to avoid, given that tminit.c already has an alternative
implementation of many conio features.  An obvious disadvantage of
going through BIOS is the speed, but since termios already uses BIOS,
that's not an issue, I think.