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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Hmm. I see the same thing screen and with tmux, as well (though I don't
> usually use either myself). I suspect they have to filter ANSI codes
> because they're using the codes themselves (so anything that moves the
> cursor is going to be a definite problem), and strike-through probably
> just isn't common enough to have been added to the whitelist.

screen needs to do a full emulation, not working as a passthru.  It
pretends to be a VT100/ANSI and attempt to show on non-VT100/ANSI
terminal via termcap/terminfo ;-)

So it is understandable that the omitted support for less common
ones.

But we are straying deep into an uninteresting (to the list)
tangent, so let's stop it here.