Re: [PATCH v2 24/25] Add new command to create extra console/mi UI channels

Pedro Alves
2016-05-26T16:41:47Z

On 05/26/2016 05:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org

>> I mean that going forward, with that, it won't sound so strange for
>> native Windows console applications to output ansi escape sequences
>> instead of using the console APIs to control cursor positioning, etc.
>
> Perhaps in 5 or 10 years, when previous Windows versions are no longer
> important. But not until then, IMO. (My main development machine
> still runs XPSP3, FWIW.)

Yeah, agreed. I don't see it as the default any time soon, but rather
an option that once sounded foreign/alien in the Windows world,
and will now will start sounding normal.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves