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> can we detect ANSI-colour support automatically? In general, no. `stdout` is just a byte-sink, and there's no way to know what the process at the other end will do...

Another use-case: The editor [Kakoune](https://kakoune.org/) uses POSIX sh for scripting, and [exports various bits of internal state as shell variables](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/pages/expansions.asciidoc#shell-expansions). All these variables follow the pattern `kak_*` so it would...

I like that DevDocs has a mobile view. I like that it appears when the window is narrow. What frustrates me is that it only appears when the window is...

If you're trying to run the Python command-line wrapper for the `ttfautohint` tool, you should just be able to run: python -m ttfautohint You shouldn't need to worry about the...

It's supposed to do that. On POSIX filesystems, there's a difference between how much data a file *contains* versus how much space it *consumes*. For example, on my Linux system,...

I had a brief search for ftruncate-related issues on macOS, and I *think* (based on the age of Stack Overflow answers) that the HFS+ filesystem used by older versions didn't...

Since this crash has been observed on Linux, I thought I'd try it myself, but I can't reproduce it (Debian Testing, Linux 5.10 on XFS). Here's a shell-command to run...

`hexdump -C` says: ``` 00000000 43 6f 70 79 20 74 68 69 73 20 6c 69 6e 65 2e 20 |Copy this line. | 00000010 20 54 68 65...

I don't have a PoC yet, but I absolutely agree that there *should* be one, and that startup performance is a great concern for any proposed solution to this issue.

Yeah, to select multiple lines you can press J a bunch of times until at least part of each line you want is selected, then x to "fill out" the...