From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2009-08-06T18:47:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Terminal escape sequences

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2009/8/6 Heesob Park <phasis@gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> 2009/8/6 James Coglan <jcoglan@googlemail.com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Looking through the PDoc source to see how it renders the build progress
> > meter, I see:
> >
> >  log "\c[[F\c[[K    Rendering: #{dest}"
> >
> > Is there a good reference for these escape sequences anywhere? They're
> not
> > terribly Google-friendly.
> >
> "\c[" is same to "\e"
> "\c[[F" is invalid sequence. cf: "\c[[f" means "Move cursor to upper
> left corner"
> "\c[[K" means "Clear line from cursor right"
>
> Refer to http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php


Thanks. \e[F is not listed though on my system it seems to have the effect
of returning the cursor to the start of the line, so \e[F\e[K can be used to
overwrite the whole of the current line. Anyone know if this is commonly
implemented or is it Ubuntu-specific?

James

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