GNU bug report logs - #35129
Unsupported escape sequences for progress in shell

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Message #8 received at 35129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: 35129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35129: Unsupported escape sequences for progress in shell
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:36:05 +0300

> Some escape sequences are unhandled in shell mode.
> Most often they appear when running `apt install'
> that shows its progress bar that is supposed to stay
> on the same line, but spreads over several lines,
> so the output looks like a mess (where ^[7 and ^[8
> are escape sequences currently still unhandled):

After more research, I found an interesting post
https://oremacs.com/2019/03/24/shell-apt/
that proposes a promising way to handle
these escape sequences.

So maybe this should be customizable?

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