User Guide: ANSI Constants

Infixed constants that return ANSI escape sequences

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 codes
    "^@": {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 human readable
    "EOF":      {4},
    "EOT":      {4},
    "BELL":     {7},
    "BS-ISO":   {8},
    "LF":       {10},
    "CR":       {13},
    "CRLF":     {13, 10},
    "ESC":      {27},
    "ESCAPE":   {27},
    "BS-ASCII": {127},

    // ansi 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":       {27, 91, 49, 49, 126},
    "F2":       {27, 91, 49, 50, 126},
    "F3":       {27, 91, 49, 51, 126},
    "F4":       {27, 91, 49, 52, 126},
    "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},
}

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.

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