Standards for ANSI escape codes

·Julia Evans··

Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were supposed to be defined or whether or not there were standards for them. I just had a kind of vague “there be dragons” feeling around them. While learning about the terminal this year, I’ve learned that: ANSI escape codes are responsible for a lot of usability improvements in the ...

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