From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261270AbTJRDMQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:12:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261304AbTJRDMQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:12:16 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:38855 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261270AbTJRDMP (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:12:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:10:52 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: DervishD Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Console escape sequences Message-Id: <20031017201052.2c8d3221.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031018000531.GB17198@DervishD> References: <20031018000531.GB17198@DervishD> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:05:31 +0200 DervishD wrote: | Hi all :) | | Where should I look if I want to know which ANSI escape codes (or | any other escape codes) the console accepts? I know that I can send | ESC[1m; to the console for getting bold text, for example, and I know | more codes, extracted from the terminfo entries and places like that, | but I would like to know if somewhere in the sources is something | like a list of supported codes. Maybe 'man 4 console_chars' ? CONSOLE_CODES(4) Linux Programmer's Manual CONSOLE_CODES(4) NAME console_codes - Linux console escape and control sequences DESCRIPTION The Linux console implements a large subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 terminal controls, plus certain private- mode sequences for changing the color palette, character-set mapping, etc. -- ~Randy