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ANSI escape code

"ANSI code" redirects here. For other uses, see ANSI (disambiguation).

In computing, ANSI escape codes (or escape sequences) are a method using in-band signaling to control the formatting, color, and other output options on video text terminals. To encode this formatting information, certain sequences of bytes are embedded into the text, which the terminal looks for and interprets as commands, not as character codes.

ANSI codes were introduced in the 1970s and became widespread in the minicomputer/mainframe market by the early 1980s. They were used by the nascent bulletin board system market to offer improved displays compared to earlier systems lacking cursor movement, leading to even more widespread use.

Although hardware text terminals have become increasingly rare in the 21st century, the relevance of the ANSI standard persists because most terminal emulators interpret at least some ofthe ANSI escape sequences in the output text. One notable exception is the win32 console component of Microsof

t Windows.Contents

* 1 History * 2 Support * 2.1 Windows and DOS * 3 Sequence elements * 4 Non-CSI codes * 5 CSI codes * 6 Colors * 7 Examples * 7.1 Example of use in shell scripting

* 8 Invalid and ambiguous sequences in use * 9 See also * 10 Notes * 11 External links

History[edit]

Almost all manufacturers of video terminals added vendor-specific escape sequences to perform operations such as placing the cursor at arbitrary positions on the screen. One example is the VT52 terminal, which allowed the cursor to be placed at an x,y location on the screen by sending the ESC character, a y character, and

then two characters representing with numerical values equal to the x,y location plus 32 (thus starting at the ASCII space character and avoiding the control characters).

As these sequences were different for different platforms, elaborate libraries such as termcap had to be created so programs could use the same API to work with any terminal. Most of these systems required sending numbers (such as row and column) as the binary values of the characters; forsome programming languages, and


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for systems that did not use ASCII internally, it was often difficult or impossible to turn a number into the correct character.

The ANSI standard attempted to address these problems by making a command set that all terminals would use and requiring all numeric information to be transmitted as ASCII numbers. The first standard in the series was ECMA-48, adopted in 1976. It was a continuation of a series of charactercoding standards, the first one being ECMA-6 from 1961, a 7-bit standard from which ASCII originates. The name "ANSI escape sequence" dates from 1981 when ANSI adopted ECMA-48 as their standard, ANSI X3.64 (and later, in 1997, withdrew it).[1]

The first popular video terminal to support these sequences was the Digital VT100, introduced in 1978.[2] This model was very successful in the market, which sparked a variety of VT100 clones, among the earliest and most popular of which was the much more affordable Zenith Z-19 in 1979.[3] The popularity of these gradually led to more and more software (especially bulletin board systems) assuming the escape sequences worked, leading to almost all new terminals and emulator programs supporting them.

ECMA-48 has been updated several times and is currently at its 5th edition, from 1991. It is also adopted by ISO and IEC as standard ISO/IEC 6429.

Support[edit]

The widespread use of ANSI by bulletin boards and online services led to almost universal platform support by the mid 1980s. In most cases this took the form of a terminal emulator (suchas xterm on Unix or the OS X Terminal or ZTerm on MacOS and many communication programs for the IBM PC), although there was increasing

support in the standard text output of many operating systems. Unix and the AmigaOS all included some ANSI support in the OS, which led to widespread use of ANSI by programs running on those platforms. Unix-like operating systems could produce ANSI codes through libraries such as termcap and curses used by many pieces of software to update the display. These libraries are supposed to support non-ANSI terminals as well, but this is so rarely testednowadays that they are unlikely to work.[citation needed] Many games and shell scripts (such as colored prompts) directly write the ANSI sequences and thus cannot be used on a terminal that does not interpret them.

AmigaOS not only interprets ANSI code sequences for text output to the screen, the AmigaOS printer driver also interprets them (with extensions proprietary to AmigaOS) and translatesthem into the codes required for the particular printer that is actually attached.[4]

In spite of its popularity, ANSI codes were not universally supported. Support was not built-in on the original "classic" Mac OS, while the Atari ST used the command system adapted


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from the VT52 with some expansions for color support.[5]

Windows and DOS[edit]

MS-DOS 1.x did not support the ANSI or any other escape sequences. Only a few control characters (BEL, CR, LF, BS) were interpreted by the underlying BIOS, making it almost[6] impossible to do any kind of full-screen application. Any display effects had to be done with BIOS calls, which were notoriously slow, or by directly manipulating the IBM PC hardware.

DOS 2.0 introduced the ability to add a device driver for the ANSI escape sequences - the de facto standard being ANSI.SYS, but others like ANSI.COM,[7] NANSI.SYS[8] and ANSIPLUS.EXE are used as well (these are considerably faster as they bypass the BIOS). Slowness and the fact that it was not installed by default made software rarely take advantage of it; instead, applications continued to directly manipulate the hardware to get the text display needed.[citation needed] ANSI.SYS and similar drivers continued to work in Windows 9x up to Windows Me, and in NT-derived systems for 16-bit legacy programs executing

under the NTVDM. The Win32 console does not support ANSI escape sequences at all. Some replacements for the console window such as JP Software's TCC (formerly 4NT), Michael J. Mefford's ANSI.COM, andJason Hood's ANSICON[9] do interpret ANSI escape sequences printed by programs.

Some software internally interprets ANSI escape sequences in text being printed and translates them to calls to manipulate the color and cursor position in the command output window,[10] to make it easier to port software using ANSI to Windows.

Sequence elements[edit]

Escape sequences start with the character ESC (ASCII decimal 27/hex 0x1B/octal 033). For two character sequences, the second character is in the range ASCII 64-95 (@ to _).

However, most of the sequences are more than two characters, and start with the characters ESC and [ (left bracket). This sequence is called CSI for Control Sequence Introducer (or Control Sequence Initiator). The final character of these sequences is in the range ASCII 64-126 (@ to ~).

There is a single-character CSI (155/0x9B /0233) as well. The ESC[ two-character sequence is more often used than the single-character alternative (for details see C0 and C1 control codes).

Only the two-character sequence is recognized by devices that support just ASCII (7-bit bytes) or devices that support 8-bit bytes, but use the 0x80-0x9F control character range for other purposes. On terminals that use UTF-8 encoding, both forms take 2 bytes (CSI in UTF-8 is 0xC2, 0x9B)[disc


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uss] but the ESC[ sequence is clearer.

Though some encodings use multiple bytes per character, the following discussion is restricted to ASCII characters, and thus assumes a single byte for each character.

Non-CSI codes[edit]

Note: other C0 codes besides ESC - commonly BEL, BS, CR, LF, FF, TAB, VT, SO, and SI - may produce similar or identical effects to some control sequences when output.

ESC N = SS2

ESC O = SS3 Select a single character from one of the alternate character sets.

ESC ^ = PM

ESC _ = APC These each take a single string of text, terminated by ST (ESC \ ). They are ignored by xterm.

ESC P = DCS Device control string,

ESC ] = OSC Operating system command - these are similar to CSI, but not limitedto integer arguments. Because they are frequently used,[citation needed] in many cases BEL is an acceptable alternative to ST. E.g., in xterm, the window title can be set by: "OSC0;this is the window titleBEL"

Note: pressing special keys on the keyboard, as well as outputting many xterm CSI, DCS, or OSC sequences,

often produces a CSI, DCS, or OSC sequence.CSI codes[edit]

The general structure of most ANSI escape sequences is CSI [private mode character(s?)] n1 ; n2... [trailing intermediate character(s?)] letter. The final byte, modified by private modecharacters and trailing intermediate characters, specifies the command. The numbers are optional parameters. The default value used for omitted parameters varies with the command, but is usually 1 or 0. If trailing parameters are omitted, the trailing semicolons may also be omitted.

The final byte is technically any character in the range 64-126 (hex 0x40-0x7E, ASCII @ to ~), and may be modified with leading intermediate bytes in the range 32 to 47 (hex 0x20-0x2F, ASCII space to /).

The colon (58, hex 0x3A) is the only character not a part of the general sequence. It was left for future standardization, so any sequence containing it should be ignored.


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Although multiple private mode characters or trailing intermediates are permitted, there are no such known usages.[citation needed]

If there are any leading private mode characters, the main body of the sequence could theoretically contain any order of characters in the range 48-63 (hex 0x30-0x3F, ASCII 0 to ?) instead of a well-formed semicolon-separated list of numbers,[citation needed] but all known terminals are nice and just use the non-digit characters in this range as flags.[citation needed] Sequences are also private if the final byte is in the range 112-126 (hex 0x70-0x7E, ASCII p-~).

Examples of private escape codes include the DECTCEM (DEC text cursor enablemode) shown below. It was first introduced for the VT-300 series of video terminals.

The behavior of the terminal is undefined in the case where a CSI sequence contains any character outside of the range 32 to 126 (hex 0x20-0x7E, ASCII space-~).[dubious - discuss] Theseillegal characters are either C0 control characters (the range 0-31, hex 0x00-0x1F), character 127 (hex 0x7F,ASCII DEL), or high-ASCII

characters (the range 128-255, hex 0x80-0xFF). Possibilities for handling illegal characters in a CSI sequence include:

1. Assuming the end of the CSI sequence, ignoring it and treating further characters as data;[citation needed]

2. Ignoring this sequence including all future characters through the next character that would normally end a CSI sequence (anything in the range 64-126 (hex 0x40-0x7E, ASCII@-~));[citation needed] or

3. Processing any control code as the terminal normally would outside of a CSI sequence before continuing to parse the rest of the sequence.[citation needed]

Some ANSI escape sequences (not a complete list) Code Name Effect

CSI n A CUU - Cursor Up Moves the cursor n (default 1) cells in the given direction. If

CSI n B CUD - Cursor Down the cursor is already at the edge of the screen, this has no

CSI n C CUF - Cursor Forward effect.

CSI n D CUB - Cursor BackCSI n E CNL - Cursor Next Line Moves cursor to beginning of the

line n (default 1) lines down.(not ANSI.SYS)

CSI n F CPL - Cursor Previous Line Moves cursor to beginning of the line n (default 1) lines up.

(not ANSI.SYS)


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CSI n G CHA - Cursor Horizontal Absolute Moves the cursor to column n. (not ANSI.SYS)

Moves the cursor to row n, column m. The values are 1-based, and

CSI n ; m H CUP - Cursor Position default to 1 (top left corner) if omitted. A sequence such as

CSI ;5H is a synonym for CSI 1;5H as well as CSI 17;H is the

same as CSI 17H and CSI 17;1H

Clears part of the screen. If nis 0 (or missing), clear from

CSI n J ED - Erase Display cursor to end of screen. If n is 1, clear from cursor to

beginning of the screen. If n is 2, clear entire screen (and

moves cursor to upper left on DOS ANSI.SYS).

Erases part of the line. If n is zero (or missing), clear from

CSI n K EL - Erase in Line cursor to the end of the line. If n is one, clear from cursor to

beginning of the line. If n is two, clear entire line. Cursor

position does not change.CSI n S SU - Scroll Up Scroll whole page up by n (defau

lt 1) lines. New lines are addedat the bottom. (not ANSI.SYS)

CSI n T SD - Scroll Down Scroll whole page down by n (default 1) lines. New lines are

added at the top. (not ANSI.SYS)

CSI n ; m f HVP - Horizontal and Vertical Moves the cursor to row n, column m. Both default to 1 if

Position omitted. Same as CUP

Sets SGR parameters, including text color. After CSI can be zero

CSI n m SGR - Select Graphic Rendition or more parameters separated with ;. With no parameters, CSI m

is treated as CSI 0 m (reset / normal), which is typical of most

of the ANSI escape sequences.

CSI 5i AUX Port On Enable aux serial port usually for local serial printer

CSI 4i AUX Port Off Disable aux serial port usuallyfor local serial printer

Reports the cursor position (CPR) to the application as (asCSI 6 n DSR - Device Status Report though typed at the keyboard) ES

C[n;mR, where n is the row and mis the column.)

CSI s SCP - Save Cursor Position Saves the cursor position.

CSI u RCP - Restore Cursor Position Restores the cursor position.


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CSI ?25l DECTCEM Hides the cursor. (Note: the trailing character is lowercase L.)

CSI ?25h DECTCEM Shows the cursor.

SGR (Select Graphic Rendition) parameters Code Effect Note

0 Reset / Normal all attributes off

1 Bold or increased intensity2 Faint (decreased intensity) Not widely supported.

3 Italic: on Not widely supported. Sometimes treated as inverse.

4 Underline: Single5 Blink: Slow less than 150 per minute

6 Blink: Rapid MS-DOS ANSI.SYS; 150+ per minute; not widely supported

7 Image: Negative inverse or reverse; swap foreground and background (reverse

video)

8 Conceal Not widely supported.9 Crossed-out Characters legible, but mar

ked for deletion. Not widelysupported.

10 Primary(default) font11-19 n-th alternate font Select the n-th alternate f

ont (14 being the fourthalternate font, up to 19 be

ing the 9th alternate font).20 Fraktur hardly ever supported

21 Bold: off or Underline: Double Bold off not widely supported; double underline hardly eversupported.

22 Normal color or intensity Neither bold nor faint

23 Not italic, not Fraktur24 Underline: None Not singly or doubly underl

ined25 Blink: off26 Reserved27 Image: Positive28 Reveal conceal off

29 Not crossed out30-37 Set text color (foreground) 30 + x, where x is from the

color table belowReserved for extended set foreground typical supported next argu

ments are 5;x where x is color38 color index (0..255) or 2;r;g;b w

here r,g,b are red, green andblue color channels (out of

255)


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39 Default text color (foreground) implementation defined (according to standard)

40-47 Set background color 40 + x, where x is from the color table below

Reserved for extended set background typical supported next arguments are 5;x where x is color

48 color index (0..255) or 2;r;g;b where r,g,b are red, green and

blue color channels (out of 255)

49 Default background color implementation defined (according to standard)

50 Reserved51 Framed52 Encircled53 Overlined54 Not framed or encircled55 Not overlined56-59 Reserved60 ideogram underline or right side line hardly ever supported

61 ideogram double underline or double line hardly ever supported

on the right side

62 ideogram overline or left side line hardly ever supported63 ideogram double overline or double line hardly ever supported

on the left side64 ideogram stress marking hardly ever supported

65 ideogram attributes off hardly ever supported, reset the effects of all of 60-64

90-97 Set foreground text color, high intensity aixterm (not in standard)

100-107 Set background color, high intensity aixterm (not in standard)

Colors[edit]

Text colors (and SGR parameters in general) are manipulated using CSI n1 [;n2 [; ...]] m sequences, where each n1, n2, ... is an SGR parameter as shown above. Thus, for instance, youuse codes 30+i to specify foreground color, 40+i to specify background color, where i is the number inthe desired color's column header in the table below. The following examples can be used with the printf utility, where \x1b[ implements the CSI: To switch the foreground color to black, use \x1b[30m; to switch tored, use \x1b[31m; utilizing the

"bold" parameter, gray would be \x1b[30;1m; to get bold red, use \x1b[31;1m.To reset colors to their defaults, use \x1b[39;49m (or reset all attributes with \x1b[0m).

Color table[11] Intensity 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Normal Black Red Green Yellow[12] Blue Magenta Cyan WhiteBright Black Red Green Yellow Blue Magenta Cyan White

There are two other color standards CSS/HTML standard colors and X Window col


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ors which standardize both the color names and associated RGB color values, but the escape sequence standard only specifies the color names, not RGB values. The chart below shows default RGB assignments for some common terminal programs, together with the CSS and the X Window System colors for these color names.[citation needed]

Color name Standard VGA Windows XP Terminal.app PuTTYmIRC xterm CSS/HTML X

colors CMDBlack 0, 0, 0 0, 0, 0 0, 0, 0 0, 0, 0

0, 0, 0 0, 0, 0 0, 0, 0 0, 0,

0Red 170, 0, 0 128, 0, 0 194, 54, 33 187, 0,

127, 0, 205, 0, 255, 0, 0 255,0

0 0 0, 0Green 0, 170, 0 0, 128, 0 37, 188, 36 0, 187,

0, 147, 0, 205, 0, 255, 0 0,0

0 0 128, 0Brown/yellow 170, 85, 0 128, 128, 0 173, 173, 39 187,

252, 205, 255, 255, 255, 187, 0127, 0 205, 0 0 255, 0

Normal Blue 0, 0, 170 0, 0, 128 73, 46, 225 0, 0,0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 255 0, 0,

187127 238 255

Magenta 170, 0, 170 128, 0, 128 211, 56, 211 187, 0,156, 0, 205, 0, 255, 0, 255,

187156 205 255 0, 255

0, 187,0, 147, 0, 205, 0, 255, 0,

Cyan 0, 170, 170 0, 128, 128 51, 187, 200 187147 205 255 255,

255187,

210, 229, 255, 255, 255,Gray 170, 170, 170 192, 192, 192 203, 204, 205 187, 187

210, 229, 255 255,

210 229 25585, 85,

127, 127,Darkgray 85, 85, 85 128, 128, 128 129, 131, 131 85

127, 127,

127 127Red 255, 85, 85 255, 0, 0 252,57,31 255, 85,

255, 0, 255, 0,85

0 085, 255,

0, 252, 0, 255, 144, 238, 144,Green 85, 255, 85 0, 255, 0 49, 231, 34 85


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0 0 144 238,

144255,

255, 255, 255, 255, 225,Yellow 255, 255, 85 255, 255, 0 234, 236, 35 255, 85

255, 0 255, 0 224 255,Bright/light

22485, 85,

0, 0, 92, 92, 173, 216, 173,Blue 85, 85, 255 0, 0, 255 88, 51, 255 255

252 255 230 216,

230Magenta 255, 85, 255 255, 0, 255 249, 53, 248 255, 85,

255, 0, 255, 0,255

255 25585, 255,

0, 255, 0, 255, 224, 255, 224,Cyan 85, 255, 255 0, 255, 255 20, 240, 240 255

255 255 255 255,

255 255,255, 255,

White 255, 255, 255 255, 255, 255 233, 235, 235 255, 255255, 255,

255 255

The VGA column denotes the typical colors that are used when booting PCs andleaving them in their classical 80 *25 text mode. The colors are different in the EGA/VGA graphic modes.

In July 2004, the blue colors of xterm changed,[13] RGB (0,0,205) -> (0,0,238

) for normal and (0,0,255) -> (92,92,255) for bright. As of 2010, old xterm versions still linger on many computers though.[citation needed]

Xterm,[14] GNOME Terminal[citation needed] and KDE's Konsole[15] support ISO-8613-3 24-bit foreground and background color setting[better source needed] Quoting one of the text-filesin its source-tree:[16][better source needed]

ESC[ ... 38;2;;; ... m Select RGB foreground color ESC[ ... 48;2;;; ... m Select RGB background color

In 256-color mode (ESC[38;5;m and ESC[48;5;m), the color-codes are the following:[citation needed]

0x00-0x07: standard colors (as in ESC [ 30-37 m) 0x08-0x0F: high intensity colors (as in ESC [ 90-97 m) 0x10-0xE7: 6 * 6 * 6 = 216 colors: 16 + 36 * r + 6 * g + b (0 =< r, g,b =< 5) 0xE8-0xFF: grayscale from black to white in 24 steps


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Web-safe colour range of the 256-color mode 0% G 20% G 40% G

60% G 80% G100% G 0% B 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 0% B 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 0% B 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 0% B 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 0% B 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%0% B 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

B B B B B B B B B B B BB B B B B B B B B B B B B

B B B B B0% R 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 4546 47 48 49 50 51

#000 #003 #006 #009 #00c #00f #030 #033 #036 #039 #03c #03f #060 #063 #066 #069 #06c #06f #090 #093 #096 #099 #09c #09f #0c0 #0c3 #0c6 #0c9 #0cc #0cf#0f0 #0f3 #0f6 #0f9 #0fc #0ff20% 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66

67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 8182 83 84 85 86 87R #300 #303 #306 #309 #30c #30f #330 #333 #336 #339 #33c #33f #360 #363 #366 #369 #36c #36f #390 #393 #396 #399 #39c #39f #3c0 #3c3 #3c6 #3c9 #3cc #3cf#3f0 #3f3 #3f6 #3f9 #3fc #3ff40% 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102

103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117118 119 120 121 122 123R #600 #603 #606 #609 #60c #60f #630 #633 #636 #639 #63c #63f #660 #663 #666 #669 #66c #66f #690 #693 #696 #699 #69c #69f #6c0 #6c3 #6c6 #6c9 #6cc #6cf#6f0 #6f3 #6f6 #6f9 #6fc #6ff60% 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153154 155 156 157 158 159R #900 #903 #906 #909 #90c #90f #930 #933 #936 #939 #93c #93f #960 #963 #966 #969 #96c #96f #990 #993 #996 #999 #99c #99f #9c0 #9c3 #9c6 #9c9 #9cc #9cf#9f0 #9f3 #9f6 #9f9 #9fc #9ff80% 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189

190 191 192 193 194 195R #c00 #c03 #c06 #c09 #c0c #c0f #c30 #c33 #c36 #c39 #c3c #c3f #c60 #c63 #c66 #c69 #c6c #c6f #c90 #c93 #c96 #c99 #c9c #c9f #cc0 #cc3 #cc6 #cc9 #ccc #ccf#cf0 #cf3 #cf6 #cf9 #cfc #cff100% 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225226 227 228 229 230 231R #f00 #f03 #f06 #f09 #f0c #f0f #f30 #f33 #f36 #f39 #f3c #f3f #f60 #f63 #f66 #f69 #f6c #f6f #f90 #f93 #f96 #f99 #f9c #f9f #fc0 #fc3 #fc6 #fc9 #fcc #fcf#ff0 #ff3 #ff6 #ff9 #ffc #fff

Xterm allows also to set the default foreground and background colors using[14]

ESC]10;BEL ESC]11;BEL

where and are X color specifications, and BEL is the ASCII BEL character (code 7). The closing bracket instead of an opening bracket reveals that it belongs tothe operating system control commands.


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Examples[edit]

CSI 2 J - This clears the screen and, on some devices, locates the cursor tothe y,x position 1,1 (upper left corner).

CSI 32 m - This makes text green. On MS-DOS, normally the green would be dark, dull green, so you may wish to enable Bold with the sequence CSI 1 m which would make it bright green, or combined as CSI 32 ; 1 m. MS-DOS ANSI.SYS uses the Bold state to make the character Bright; also the Blink state can be set (via INT 10, AX 1003h, BL 00h) to render the Background in the Bright mode. MS-DOS ANSI.SYS does not support SGR codes 90-97 and 100-107 directly.

CSI 0 ; 6 8 ; "DIR" ; 13 p - This reassigns the key F10 to send to the keyboard buffer the string "DIR" and ENTER, which in the DOS command line would display the contents of the current directory. (MS-DOS ANSI.SYS only) This was sometimes used for ANSI bombs. This is a private-use code (asindicated by the letter p), using a non-standard extension to include a string-valued parameter. Following the letter of the standard

would consider the sequence to end at the letter D. CSI s - This saves the cursor position. Using the sequence CSI u will restore it to the position. Say the current cursor position is 7(y) and 10(x). The sequence CSI s will save those two numbers. Now you can move to a different cursor position, such as 20(y) and 3(x), using the sequence CSI 20 ; 3 H or CSI 20 ; 3 f. Now if you use the sequence CSI u the cursor position will return to 7(y) and 10(x). Some terminals require the DEC sequences ESC 7 / ESC 8 instead which is more widely supported.

Example of use in shell scripting[edit]

ANSI escape codes are often used in UNIX and UNIX-like terminals to provide syntax highlighting. For example, on compatible terminals, the following list command color-codes file and directory names by type.

ls --color

Users can employ escape codes in their scripts by including them as part of standard output or standard error. For example, the following sed command embellishes the output of the make command by displaying lines containing words starting with "WARN" in reverse video and words starting wit

h "ERR" in bright yellow on a dark red background (letter case is ignored). The representations of the codes are highlighted.[17]

make 2>&1 | sed -e 's/.*\bWARN.*/\x1b[7m&\x1b[0m/i' -e 's/.*\bERR.*/\x1b[93;41m&\x1b[0m/i'

The following shell function flashes the terminal (by alternately sending reverse and normal video mode codes) until the user presses a key.[18]


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flasher () { while true; do printf \\e[?5h; sleep 0.1; printf \\e[?5l; read -s-n1 -t1 && break; done; }

This can be used to alert a programmer when a lengthy command terminates, such as with make ; flasher .[19]

Invalid and ambiguous sequences in use[edit]

* The Linux console uses OSC P n rr gg bb to change the palette, which, ifhard-coded into an application, may hang other terminals. However, appending ST will be ignored by Linuxand form a proper, ignorable sequence for other terminals. * On the Linux console, certain function keys generate sequences of the form CSI [ char. The CSI sequence should terminate on the [. * Old versions of Terminator generate SS3 1; modifiers char when F1-F4 arepressed with modifiers. The faulty behavior was copied from GNOME Terminal.[citation needed] * xterm replies CSI row ; column R if asked for cursor position and CSI 1 ; modifiers R if the F3 key is pressed with modifiers, which collide in the case of row == 1. This can be avoided by using the ? private

modifier, which will be reflected in the response.[clarification needed] * many terminals prepend ESC to any character that is typed with the alt key down. This creates ambiguity for uppercase letters and symbols @[\]^_, which would form C1 codes.[clarification needed] * Konsole generates SS3 modifiers char when F1-F4 are pressed with modifiers.[clarification needed]

See also[edit]

* ANSI art * Control character * Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator (AVATAR)

* ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2Notes[edit]

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3. ^ Heathkit Company (1979). "Heathkit Catalog 1979". Heathkit Company. Retrieved 4 November 2011.

4. ^ "Amiga Printer Command Definitions". Commodore. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

5. ^ "Using C-Kermit", p. 88. 6. ^ The screen display could be replaced by drawing the entire new screen's

contents at the bottom, scrolling the previous screen up sufficiently to erase all the old text.The user would see the scrolling, and the hardware cursor would be left at the very bottom. Some early batch files achieved rudimentary "full screen" displays in this way. 7. ^ Michael Mefford (7 February 1989). "ANSI.com: Download It Here". PC Magazine. Retrieved 10 August 2011.

8. ^ Dan Kegel, Eric Auer (28 February 1999). "Nansi and NNansi - ANSI Drive


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rs for MS-DOS". Dan Kegel's Web Hostel. Retrieved 10 August 2011.

9. ^ Jason Hood (2005). "Process ANSI escape sequences for Windows console programs". Jason Hood's Home page. Retrieved 9 May 2013.

10. ^ "colorama 0.2.5 :". Python Package Index. Retrieved 17 August 2013.11. ^ The names are standard, however the exact shade/hue/value of colors are

not standardized and will depend on the device used to display them. 12. ^ On terminals based on CGA compatible hardware, such as ANSI.SYS running on DOS, this normal intensity foreground color is rendered as Orange. CGA RGBI monitors contained hardware to modify the dark yellow color to an orange/brown color by reducing the green component. See thisansi art as an example. 13. ^ "Patch #192 - 2004/7/12 - XFree86 4.4.99.9".

14. ^ a b "XTerm Control Sequences". invisible-island.net. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2014.

15. ^ "color-spaces.pl (a copy of 256colors2.pl from xterm dated 11 July 1999)". KDE. 6 December 2006.

16. ^ "README.moreColors". KDE. 22 April 2010.17. ^ Colorized shell echo

18. ^ "VT100.net: Digital VT100 User Guide". Retrieved 19 January 2015.19. ^ "bash - How to get a notification when my commands are done - Ask Diffe

rent". Retrieved 19 January 2015.

External links[edit]

* Standard ECMA-48, Control Functions For Coded Character Sets. (5th edition, June 1991), European Computer Manufacturers Association, Geneva 1991 (also published by ISO and IEC asstandard ISO/IEC 6429) * vt100.net DEC Documents * ANSI.SYS -- ansi terminal emulation escape sequences at the Wayback Machine (archived February 6, 2006) * Xterm / Escape Sequences

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