Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 01:01:09 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Colour manpages Message-ID: <19991221010109.C454@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19991220195344.A21265@dmaddox.conterra.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912191443490.21924-100000@sasknow.com> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9912201926330.27896-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> <19991220175717.A1054@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19991221004329.A454@marder-1> <19991220195344.A21265@dmaddox.conterra.com>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:53:45PM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote:
> Or, more simply, type:
>
> $ vidcontrol show
>
Yes, but that doesn't give the ANSI codes needed for the ESC
sequences.
> :-)
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 12:43:29AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > For a visual "list" of colour combinations, run this script (the
> > numbers along the top of the display are the bg colours and the ones
> > at the left are the fg colours):
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # Display ANSI colours.
> > #
> > esc="\033["
> > echo -e "\t 40\t 41\t 42\t 43\t 44 45\t46\t 47"
> > for fore in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do
> > line1="$fore "
> > line2=" "
> > for back in 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47; do
> > line1="${line1}${esc}${back};${fore}m Normal ${esc}0m"
> > line2="${line2}${esc}${back};${fore};1m Bold ${esc}0m"
> > done
> > echo -e "$line1\n$line2"
> > done
> >
> >
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > > --
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