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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Globally Disable Prompt Formatting, In All Programs Everywhere For All Time
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:53:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180516215356.lsiaiwbcrvovdoib@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAD4mYjyP6O3BXNcYwrU3dxiRFvXpi1B17TZMO65D=gv4f2X5Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 2018-05-16 16:11, R0b0t1 wrote:

> Is the only way to find every program that generates escape sequences
> and disable it? What about kernel messages during boot?

I was going to suggest setting TERM=dumb in the environment, but
... already the first program I tried (equery) doesn't honor it, so not
much hope there.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-16 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-16 21:11 [gentoo-user] Globally Disable Prompt Formatting, In All Programs Everywhere For All Time R0b0t1
2018-05-16 21:53 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2018-05-17 17:07 ` Grant Taylor

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