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joshka • yesterday at 1:07 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

There's some downsides to this - I can't recall where I called this out off the top of my head, but this also adds a bunch more things that that wouldn't do that are covered in the spec.


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iainmerrick • yesterday at 2:12 AM

If you mean your proposal adds more things, that sounds like it might be over-complicated. To solve the problem of tightly-fitting boxes around terminal text -- if you consider that to be a real problem -- overstrike sounds like a really elegant solution.

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