I mean, it would be super nice for your terminal emulator to just automagically filter out escape sequences when you, the user, do not want them and to allow them for programs that you do. a whitelist would work but would be super annoying to actually verify as so many programs output things from so many different inputs. it seems like programs themselves should decide if they need to output arbitrary data and, in cases where they don't, like git, they can filter it.
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I mean, it would be super nice for your terminal emulator to just automagically filter out escape sequences when you, the user, do not want them and to allow them for programs that you do. a whitelist would work but would be super annoying to actually verify as so many programs output things from so many different inputs. it seems like programs themselves should decide if they need to output arbitrary data and, in cases where they don't, like git, they can filter it.
Automagically? The terminal emulator's job is to parse and interpret those sequences.