Re: [dev] [st] New patches

From: Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga_AT_shike2.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:38:22 +0200

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:33:34PM +0200, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure what this feature will be used for. If you want
> to script something around a program expecting to run in a term there
> are already better tools for that like expect [1]. I'm not the one who
> added this goal.

Main use of this feature (actually) is only helping to debug. When you are
debugging escape sequences is very useful have the ascii sequence that some
program writes to the terminal. I don't know if you can get it with expect.
Received on Sun Sep 16 2012 - 12:38:22 CEST