I can't say I am that impressed with ECMA-48. Back when it was VT-100s connected to a VAX or logging into a BBS over a 9600 baud modem with a PC I felt satisfied. Even when there was a bit of line noise.
Ever since 1990 or so when it has been using "telnet" or the equivalent on an xterm or CMD.EXE or some other GUI application that emulates I've never trusted it to work 100% right. Maybe 99.5%, but I expect the cursor to be a column off where it is supposed to be, for there to just be a little misalignment here and there. I mean, other people don't complain, but people don't complain when the center channel is burned out at the cinema or when the Linux desktop has a 179px wide label in a 59px wide space and such.
It's one reason I gave up on emacs and just use the 20% of vi functionality I know (hit 'i' and pretend that it's Notepad, as least ESC + :wq doesn't confound my muscle memory for ^S being search the way ^S and ^X^S do) when I am logged into a busted Linux install to get the package manager running again but really use IntelliJ IDEA as much as I can.
Ever since 1990 or so when it has been using "telnet" or the equivalent on an xterm or CMD.EXE or some other GUI application that emulates I've never trusted it to work 100% right. Maybe 99.5%, but I expect the cursor to be a column off where it is supposed to be, for there to just be a little misalignment here and there. I mean, other people don't complain, but people don't complain when the center channel is burned out at the cinema or when the Linux desktop has a 179px wide label in a 59px wide space and such.
It's one reason I gave up on emacs and just use the 20% of vi functionality I know (hit 'i' and pretend that it's Notepad, as least ESC + :wq doesn't confound my muscle memory for ^S being search the way ^S and ^X^S do) when I am logged into a busted Linux install to get the package manager running again but really use IntelliJ IDEA as much as I can.