From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: wscons 256 colour support
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:54:03 +0100

On 2025/07/08 18:18, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> I see.  Maybe the world is slowly, very slowly, moving towards a state
> where termcap/terminfo becomes obsolete (wouldn't be surpring; actual
> hardware terminals obviously aren't common any more).  If that happens,
> some standard might eventually emerge, and likely TERM=xterm is the
> closest we have so far to such a standard...

A disappointing amount of console based software aimed at unix-like
systems is just hardcoding ECMA-48 type escape sequences these days :(