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From: wyv@cris.com (wyv)
Subject: Re: Color IRC codes?
Date: 1996/12/01
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In article <qumn2w3swd3.thoron@cyclone.stanford.edu>, rra@cs.stanford.edu 
says...
>
>In alt.irc, wyv <wyv@cris.com> writes:
>
>> You're missing a bunch of colors there, here's all the color codes I've
>> got.  "BG" is "background" abbrev'd, and ^[ is always the literal Ctrl+[
>> character, which is not displayed here:
>
>It's known as ESC or Escape.  :)

Yeah, I know, but that doesn't exactly matter.

># Attribute codes have the form xx;xx;xx where one code is the attribute,
># another is the foreground color, and the third is the background color.
># If only one or two of those three classes of attributes is to be
># changed, the rest can be omitted.  The codes are as follows:
>#
># Attribute codes: 
>#    00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
># Text color codes:
>#    30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
># Background color codes:
>#    40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
>#
># To change text attributes, send the sequence:
>#
>#    ESC [ <attribute> m
>#
># leaving off the spaces, where ESC is C-[ or octal character 033 and
># <attribute> is one of those attribute codes.
>
>For example, use ESC [ 1;32 m (no spaces) to turn text bright green.  (Or,
>equivalently, ESC [ 32;1 m ).

Well, thanks for pointing that <attribute> (xx;xx;xx) part out to me, I wasn't 
*quite* aware of that, although I knew that the ;'s in the ANSI color codes had 
something to do with how the string worked. :) Wow, I can now go share my knew 
knowledge. ;)
Oh yeah, n I've never really had any trouble with the "longer" way of doing 
it, which is, basically, doing everything separately.
^[[31m^[[42m^[[05mHello^[[0m
Will output "Hello" with red text, a green background, and blinking just as 
well as
^[[31;42;05mHello^[[0m
will, if I understood you correctly. Please correct me if I'm wrong. :P

wyv