TERMINALS: note hang on bad response to Primary Device Attributes

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nick black 3 years ago
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@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ Note that Secondary Device Attributes (`CSI > c`) is *not* queried, because
no terminals requiring special handling identify themselves via this query.
This also applies to Primary Device Attributes, but we send this because all
known terminals respond to it with *something*, preventing us from hanging,
waiting for input.
waiting for input (if a terminal does *not* reply in a recognizable way to
Primary Device Attributes, `notcurses_init()` will **hang**).
Even if the terminal responds unambiguously to one of these queries, Notcurses
must have code to recognize the response, and bind it to some terminal

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