Doesn't work on Xfce either. On a virtual terminal thingy (ctrl-alt-f1) it shows a grey background with white text. I suspect blink is only implemented on the Mac's terminal, not in Linux-land.
I suspect it's really not a terminal issue but something about git. Or does a Terminal that doesn't interpret a command print it in clear text? I just get the string back, the same way I entered it.
It's definitely a terminal thing. The "bug" in git is that it doesn't strip out the control characters or reject the commit if the commit message contains non-text data.
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Doesn't work in my gnome-terminal. Looks like the commands get escaped by git somehow. Did anybody test it?
Doesn't work on Xfce either. On a virtual terminal thingy (ctrl-alt-f1) it shows a grey background with white text. I suspect blink is only implemented on the Mac's terminal, not in Linux-land.
...Lord, when did I get so old? :/
EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100
I suspect it's really not a terminal issue but something about git. Or does a Terminal that doesn't interpret a command print it in clear text? I just get the string back, the same way I entered it.
What?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
It's definitely a terminal thing. The "bug" in git is that it doesn't strip out the control characters or reject the commit if the commit message contains non-text data.
You can set Xterm and Konsole to be VT100 compatible. I dunno about Gnome Terminal.
Anyway, they default to "linux" for more than a decade.
It does work in urxvt and konsole (and there's an option to turn it off). And as tempodox said, this is just VT100 stuff.