/etc/motd update

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Sep 6 00:17:57 UTC 2014


On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Warren Block wrote:

> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.diff

And an experimental version that uses VT100/ANSI escape sequences to 
remove the in-band quote marks that many readers will type, and 
highlight those sections with out-of-band underlines:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.ansi

I have no evidence, but suspect the number of people using non-VT100, 
non-ANSI terminal emulations is very small, and those people will 
probably not be bothered by escape sequences that do not render 
correctly.


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