Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 21:01:30 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu Cc: mark@grondar.za, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, ache@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LESS cleanup? Message-ID: <199605130401.VAA01635@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960512190256.30172C-100000@gilligan.eng.umd.edu> (message from Chuck Robey on Sun, 12 May 1996 19:04:55 -0400 (EDT))
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* OK, I played with the color less ... I did an ls |less, and since I'm * using a color version of ls, colors came out. What surprised me is that * the columns were all messed up. Do you think less is misinterpreting the * color escape sequences as taking tab positions? Yes. Take a look at the patch (files/patch-ab), it just lets the Esc pass through (at least I think that's what it's doing...). It should * Does anyone know of a reference to what those color sequences are? I guess it's ANSI one thing or another 'cause they are usually called "ANSI color sequences". They are Esc '[' '3' c 'm' to set the foreground, and Esc '[' '4' c 'm' to set the background where c is the color code 0-7, where it's usually that 1 is red, 2 is green, 4 is blue and other numbers are bitwise OR's of the three colors. There is also an Esc '[' m to reset the color to the default. (Actually it resets everything, like blink/bold/underline etc., which can be accessed by using digits other than '3' and '4' after the '['). Satoshi "no I didn't invent colorls, I just implemented it"
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