ANSI Constants
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ANSI Constants
Infixed constants that return ANSI escape sequences
Description
ANSI Constants is a Murex convention of passing ANSI escape sequences into strings. It uses the {} notation with the constant name placed in between two curly braces. eg {GREEN}.
Constants
Rather than duplicate the constants from source, and risk the documentation and implementation drifting, this document will embed the source directly below.
package ansi
var constants = map[string][]byte{
// ASCII control keys
"^@": {0},
"^A": {1},
"^B": {2},
"^C": {3},
"^D": {4},
"^E": {5},
"^F": {6},
"^G": {7},
"^H": {8},
"^I": {9},
"^J": {10},
"^K": {11},
"^L": {12},
"^M": {13},
"^N": {14},
"^O": {15},
"^P": {16},
"^Q": {17},
"^R": {18},
"^S": {19},
"^T": {20},
"^U": {21},
"^V": {22},
"^W": {23},
"^X": {24},
"^Y": {25},
"^Z": {26},
"^[": {27},
`^/`: {28},
"^]": {29},
"^^": {30},
"^_": {31},
"^?": {127},
// ASCII control codes
"EOF": {4},
"EOT": {4},
"BELL": {7},
"BS-ISO": {8},
"LF": {10},
"CR": {13},
"CRLF": {13, 10},
"ESC": {27},
"ESCAPE": {27},
"BS-ASCII": {127},
// ASCII escape sequences
"CURSOR-UP": {27, 91, 65},
"CURSOR-DOWN": {27, 91, 66},
"CURSOR-FORWARDS": {27, 91, 67},
"CURSOR-BACKWARDS": {27, 91, 68},
"CURSOR-HOME": {27, 91, 72},
"CURSOR-HOME-VT100": {27, 91, 49, 126},
"CURSOR-END": {27, 91, 70},
"CURSOR-END-VT100": {27, 91, 52, 126},
"INS": {27, 91, 50, 126},
"INSERT": {27, 91, 50, 126},
"DEL": {27, 91, 51, 126},
"DELETE": {27, 91, 51, 126},
// Function keys
"F1-VT100": {27, 79, 80},
"F2-VT100": {27, 79, 81},
"F3-VT100": {27, 79, 82},
"F4-VT100": {27, 79, 83},
"F1-VT220": {27, 91, 49, 49, 126},
"F2-VT220": {27, 91, 49, 50, 126},
"F3-VT220": {27, 91, 49, 51, 126},
"F4-VT220": {27, 91, 49, 52, 126},
"F1": {27, 79, 80},
"F2": {27, 79, 81},
"F3": {27, 79, 82},
"F4": {27, 79, 83},
"F5": {27, 91, 49, 53, 126},
"F6": {27, 91, 49, 55, 126},
"F7": {27, 91, 49, 56, 126},
"F8": {27, 91, 49, 57, 126},
"F9": {27, 91, 50, 48, 126},
"F10": {27, 91, 50, 49, 126},
"F11": {27, 91, 50, 51, 126},
"F12": {27, 91, 50, 52, 126},
// alt-num
"ALT-0": {27, 48},
"ALT-1": {27, 49},
"ALT-2": {27, 50},
"ALT-3": {27, 51},
"ALT-4": {27, 52},
"ALT-5": {27, 53},
"ALT-6": {27, 54},
"ALT-7": {27, 55},
"ALT-8": {27, 56},
"ALT-9": {27, 57},
// control sequence
"CSI": {27, 91},
}
var sgr = map[string][]byte{
// text effects
"RESET": {27, 91, 48, 109},
"BOLD": {27, 91, 49, 109},
"ITALIC": {27, 91, 51, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"UNDERSCORE": {27, 91, 52, 109},
"UNDERLINE": {27, 91, 52, 109},
"UNDEROFF": {27, 91, '2', '4', 109},
"BLINK": {27, 91, 53, 109},
"INVERT": {27, 91, 55, 109},
"ALT-FONT-1": {27, 91, 49, 49, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"ALT-FONT-2": {27, 91, 49, 50, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"ALT-FONT-3": {27, 91, 49, 51, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"ALT-FONT-4": {27, 91, 49, 52, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"ALT-FONT-5": {27, 91, 49, 53, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"ALT-FONT-6": {27, 91, 49, 54, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"ALT-FONT-7": {27, 91, 49, 55, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"ALT-FONT-8": {27, 91, 49, 56, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"ALT-FONT-9": {27, 91, 49, 57, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
"FRAKTUR": {27, 91, 50, 48, 109}, // Not commonly supported in terminals
// text colours
"BLACK": {27, 91, 51, 48, 109},
"RED": {27, 91, 51, 49, 109},
"GREEN": {27, 91, 51, 50, 109},
"YELLOW": {27, 91, 51, 51, 109},
"BLUE": {27, 91, 51, 52, 109},
"MAGENTA": {27, 91, 51, 53, 109},
"CYAN": {27, 91, 51, 54, 109},
"WHITE": {27, 91, 51, 55, 109},
"BLACK-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 51, 48, 109},
"RED-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 51, 48, 109},
"GREEN-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 51, 48, 109},
"YELLOW-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 51, 48, 109},
"BLUE-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 51, 48, 109},
"MAGENTA-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 51, 48, 109},
"CYAN-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 51, 48, 109},
"WHITE-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 51, 48, 109},
// background colours
"BG-BLACK": {27, 91, 52, 48, 109},
"BG-RED": {27, 91, 52, 49, 109},
"BG-GREEN": {27, 91, 52, 50, 109},
"BG-YELLOW": {27, 91, 52, 51, 109},
"BG-BLUE": {27, 91, 52, 52, 109},
"BG-MAGENTA": {27, 91, 52, 53, 109},
"BG-CYAN": {27, 91, 52, 54, 109},
"BG-WHITE": {27, 91, 52, 55, 109},
"BG-BLACK-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 52, 48, 109},
"BG-RED-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 52, 48, 109},
"BG-GREEN-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 52, 48, 109},
"BG-YELLOW-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 52, 48, 109},
"BG-BLUE-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 52, 48, 109},
"BG-MAGENTA-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 52, 48, 109},
"BG-CYAN-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 52, 48, 109},
"BG-WHITE-BRIGHT": {27, 91, 49, 59, 52, 48, 109},
}
How To Read The Code Above
Each line will look something a little like
"GREEN": {27, 91, 51, 50, 109},
The part within quotes is the constant name, and the part that follows is the sequence of bytes that are infixed.
So the example above will replace {GREEN} from within a string with the byte values of 27, 91, 51, 50 and 109 (in that order).
Unsupported Constants
If a constant does not exist in the above code, then the infix string is left unedited.
# Green spelt correctly
» out "{GREEN}PASSED{RESET}"
PASSED
# Green spelt incorrectly (ie so that it doesn't exist as a valid constant)
» out "{GREEEEN}PASSED{RESET}"
{GREEEEN}PASSED
Enabling / Disabling ANSI Escape Sequences
These sequences are enabled by default. To disable run the following:
» config set shell color false
You will need to add this to your Murex profile, ~/.murex_profile to make it persistent.
See Also
- Error String (
err): Print a line to the stderr - Output String (
out): Print a string to the stdout with a trailing new line character - Output With Type Annotation (
tout): Print a string to the stdout and set it's data-type - Profile Files: A breakdown of the different files loaded on start up
%(Brace Quote): Initiates or terminates a string (variables expanded)(brace quote): Write a string to the stdout without new line (deprecated)
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