ANSI escape code and OSC (terminal)

WIP. (my brain fucking hurts)

ANSI escape code

ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators. Certain sequences of bytes, most starting with an ASCII escape character and a bracket character, are embedded into text. The terminal interprets these sequences as commands, rather than text to display verbatim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

Caret notation

  • it’s a notation for control characters in ASCII
  • ^A ~ ^Z are assigned to ascii range 1-26, it’s a typable notation for the ascii code that doesn’t exist on a keyboard.
  • it doesn’t mean typing ^ and X verbatim
  • Often can be typed with Ctrl + X on keyboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notation

C0 Control codes

(no exhaustive list)

^   C0      Abbr    Name
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^G  0x07    BEL     Bell
^H  0x08    BS      Backspace	
^I  0x09    HT      Tab
^J  0x0A    LF      Line Feed
^L  0x0C    FF      Form Feed
^M  0x0D    CR      Carriage Return
^[  0x1B    ESC	    Escape

C1 Control Codes
ANSI escape sequence: (Fe Escape Sequence) that is, a sequence lead by ESC

If the ESC is followed by a byte in the range 0x40 to 0x5F, the escape sequence is of type Fe. Its interpretation is delegated to the applicable C1 control code standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Fe_Escape_sequences

Most notably the Operating System Command (OSC)

ESC [   0x9B    CSI     Control Sequence Introducer
ESC \   0x9C    ST      String Terminitor
ESC ]   0x9D    OSC     Operating System Command

Operating System Command (OSC) Sequence

OSC sequence is ESC ] <constrol string> ST

This is defined by the terminal (mostly xterm)





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