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From: Russ Allbery <rra@cs.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Color IRC codes?
Date: 1996/11/27
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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.  :)

# 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 ).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@cs.stanford.edu)      <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>