Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Which tree and developers

[Dominik K. <dom...@un...>]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:19:33AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> By "a programmers reference manual for the terminal emulation", do you mean a 
> description of the supported escape sequences?

With annotations regarding recommended use and implementation specifics. 
Just like the respective DEC manuals, but i think we can skip the users
manual ;-)

Oh, i see!  That's what console_codes(4) already does ...

> > I recall Linus being less appreciative of the idea of using embedded docs
> > and automatic tools to generate man pages, but that might have changed since
> > it was mentionend the last time...
> 
> I believe Alan Cox is pushing some tools for doing this.

Got any pointers on what he is using?

Dominik
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