From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED30A1382C5 for ; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:54:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA49EE096D; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from very.loosely.org (very.loosely.org [173.255.215.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C037E0967 for ; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.8.78.6] (port=55764 helo=matica.foolinux.mooo.com) by ahiker.mooo.com with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ4N3-0000ta-2y for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 14:54:05 -0700 Received: from itz by matica.foolinux.mooo.com with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ4Mu-0004JZ-PO for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 14:53:56 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:53:56 -0700 From: Ian Zimmerman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Globally Disable Prompt Formatting, In All Programs Everywhere For All Time Message-ID: <20180516215356.lsiaiwbcrvovdoib@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Loosely-Listed: yes User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170707-dirty (1.8.3) X-Archives-Salt: 4d8d451d-4c4d-40cf-a967-802c653cc1e2 X-Archives-Hash: 344c5f3989e47c3b36a1ac3e2d13ec50 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. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.