From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: wscons 256 colour support
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:58:39 -0600

Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

> 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 :(

We can fight against the trend, or we can fight in the same direction as
the trend.