Timeline for Did any system ever use the Privacy Message (PM) C1 control?
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| May 13, 2023 at 22:33 | comment | added | supercat | If I were designing a terminal and had to guess what "privacy" was supposed to mean, I would guess that it's intended for something vaguely analogous to "spoiler" tags, but with an easy way of showing/hiding information, and--for presentations where a public display mostly echos a presenter's display--indicating that some information should only be shown on a presenter's display. | |
| May 13, 2023 at 10:02 | comment | added | dave | My guess would be that PM was chosen because it was a sequence that wouldn't already be emitted by any existing program running in 'screen'. | |
| May 13, 2023 at 1:06 | comment | added | Simon Kissane | Interestingly, this feature has been in screen ever since the first public release of March 1987 – groups.google.com/g/net.sources/c/5V9QWdIynTY/m/nrJLMWpznEUJ – so why they chose PM may be lost to the mists of time | |
| May 13, 2023 at 0:43 | comment | added | Simon Kissane | Manual link: gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Privacy-Message.html – I wonder why they decided to use PM to implement this. You are right, it doesn't sound very "private" | |
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| S May 12, 2023 at 12:03 | history | edited | grawity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2023 at 11:56 | comment | added | dave | Welcome. A nit: ESC [ is CSI, as far as I recall. | |
| S May 12, 2023 at 11:47 | review | First answers | |||
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| S May 12, 2023 at 11:47 | history | answered | grawity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |