Re: A nice gnus thread tree in console

[Johan Bockgård]

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't quite understand how people find the glyphs.
>
> (dolist (c '((?\207 . ?q) (?\216 . ?x) (?\212 . ?t) (?\203 . ?m)))
>   (aset standard-display-table (car c)
>       (vector (create-glyph (concat "\e(0" "\e[35m" ; magenta
>                                     (char-to-string (cdr c))
>                                     "\e[0m" "\e(B")))))

"ESC ( C" switches character sets.
"ESC [ N m" selects color.

    http://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html

"m" is a lower-left corner character etc.

    http://vt100.net/docs/tp83/appendixa.html (bottom)

The \nnn numbers are somewhat arbitrary in this context.

-- 
Johan Bockgård