Re: Are there two families of escapes sequences?

[Richard]

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The short answer to your question is that there is a standard set of
ANSI ESC sequences and then there are those that are specific to a
particular terminal (or emulator).

Patrick <address@hidden> spake the secret code
<address@hidden> thusly:

>It is not displaying colors right for me. I piped it's output to a file 
>and it looks like:
>
><ESC>]4;16;rgb:00/00/00<ESC>
>
>where the <ESC> is unprintable

This is not an ANSI sequence.

>I also found a shell script and it is displaying correctly:
>for x in 0 1 4 5 7 8; do for i in `seq 30 37`; do for a in `seq 40 47`; 
>do echo -ne "\e[$x;$i;$a""m\\\e[$x;$i;$a""m\e[0;37;40m "; done; echo; 
>done; done; echo "";
>
>and when it's output is piped to a file it looks like:
>
><ESC>[0;37;40m

This is an ANSI sequence.  Generally ANSI sequences begin with ESC [,
followed by a series of numeric parameters separated by semi-colons
(0;37;40) and terminated by a command sequence (m).

On the terminals wiki, I came up with a means of summarizing command
sequences for different terminals (not all use ESC, so we can't really
call them all ESC sequences).  I call them "code charts".  You can see
the code charts I've created here:
<http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Code_Chart>

Specifically the code chart for ANSI is here:
<http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/CodeChart:ANSI>

That links to an online version of ECMA-48 that describes the full set
of ANSI sequences.
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