Console escape sequences

Console escape sequences

[DervishD]

    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.

    Thanks a lot in advance.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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Re: Console escape sequences

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:05:31 +0200 DervishD <raul@pleyades.net> 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.

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Re: Console escape sequences

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri Oct 17, 2003 at 08:10:52PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:05:31 +0200 DervishD <raul@pleyades.net> 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' ?

s/console_chars/console_codes/

 -Erik

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Re: Console escape sequences

[DervishD]

    Hi all :))

    My excuses, I've had problems with my mail and lost the two
responses to my original mail. The fact is that I've already read the
manpage you say (console_codes(4)), but that page seems to be from
1996, so I was asking myself if a more recent referend existed.

    Is there any more up to date reference or any place in the source
code? Thanks for the answer anyway :))) and thanks in advance for all
your help, together with my excuses to the two persons who answered
for having lost their emails.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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Re: Console escape sequences

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

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On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:23:30PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
>     Hi all :))
> 
>     My excuses, I've had problems with my mail and lost the two
> responses to my original mail. The fact is that I've already read the
> manpage you say (console_codes(4)), but that page seems to be from
> 1996, so I was asking myself if a more recent referend existed.
> 
>     Is there any more up to date reference or any place in the source
> code? Thanks for the answer anyway :))) and thanks in advance for all
> your help, together with my excuses to the two persons who answered
> for having lost their emails.

The code that seems to handle it in 2.6.0-test7-mm1 is in
drivers/char/vt.c, starting in do_con_write and actually dealt with in
do_con_trol.

Good luck.

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Re: Console escape sequences

[DervishD]

    Hi Zephaniah :)

 * Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@babylon.d2dc.net> dixit:
> >     Is there any more up to date reference or any place in the source
> > code? Thanks for the answer anyway :))) and thanks in advance for all
> > your help, together with my excuses to the two persons who answered
> > for having lost their emails.
> The code that seems to handle it in 2.6.0-test7-mm1 is in
> drivers/char/vt.c, starting in do_con_write and actually dealt with in
> do_con_trol.

    Thanks a lot, I'll take a look :)))

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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