Re: new grotty format

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 08:58:54 -0500
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> 
>     Karl, do we have someone who knows about terminals enough to give us
>     advice about possible support of this in Info?
> 
> Nope.  I've barely touched the terminal output parts of Info.  Bfox
> wrote them originally, of course.  Can't remember any significant
> patches or bugs regarding them, either.  (And can't say I'm excited
> about working on tty output, either.)

Then I guess the first line of defence would be to remove the SGR
escapes altogether, like we do today with \b.

Werner, could you please tell what escape sequences will grotty emit,
or point me to the file in the Groff distro where I can find this info?

> I've often dreamed of making info be a shell script:
> #!/bin/sh
> exec emacs -f info "$@"
> 
> (Well, ok, it's more complex than that, but you get the idea.)

The real problem with this script is that it comes with a 130MB
baggage ;-)