Color IRC codes?

Hi all!	

I've seen people on the IRC run scripts that set terminal screen colors.
Does anybody have a list of the sequences used to do this?  Thanks for any
help!

I have an ircii script at http://www.cloud9.net/~moocat/colors.irc


sayanora
jon...@jonathan.nasa.com


On 25 Nov 1996, wyv wrote:

> In article <57crk6$h3...@news1.epix.net>, gsp...@epix.net says...
> >
> >Hi all! 
> >
> >I've seen people on the IRC run scripts that set terminal screen colors.
> >Does anybody have a list of the sequences used to do this?  Thanks for any
> >help!
> 
> Ahh, I've never seen/heard of scripts that "set terminal colors". Obviously 
> you're talking about script for ircII... You're probably thinking of scripts 
> for BitchX (and other clients like that) that support ANSI color. Scripts such 
> as bitZ and whirred have special options to set up colors used in the script, 
> but this has nothing to do with your terminal. The color is displayable because 
> of the client, not the script. So, basically, if you're looking for ANSI color, 
> I suggest you download a copy of BitchX and load up one of the scripts that are 
> included with it (bitZ and whirred are a couple of the most popular).
> 
> wyv
> 
> 
> 

In article <57crk6$h3...@news1.epix.net>, gsp...@epix.net says...
>
>Hi all! 
>
>I've seen people on the IRC run scripts that set terminal screen colors.
>Does anybody have a list of the sequences used to do this?  Thanks for any
>help!

Ahh, I've never seen/heard of scripts that "set terminal colors". Obviously 
you're talking about script for ircII... You're probably thinking of scripts 
for BitchX (and other clients like that) that support ANSI color. Scripts such 
as bitZ and whirred have special options to set up colors used in the script, 
but this has nothing to do with your terminal. The color is displayable because 
of the client, not the script. So, basically, if you're looking for ANSI color, 
I suggest you download a copy of BitchX and load up one of the scripts that are 
included with it (bitZ and whirred are a couple of the most popular).

wyv

In article <Pin...@cloud9.net>, 
moo...@cloud9.net says...
>
>I have an ircii script at http://www.cloud9.net/~moocat/colors.irc

You're missing a bunch of colors there, here's all the color codes I've got. 
"BG" is "background" abbrev'd, and ^[ is always the literal Ctrl+[ character, 
which is not displayed here:

STOP COLORS ^[[0m
BLINKING ^[[5m
-
BLACK ^[[30m
RED ^[[31m
GREEN ^[[32m
YELLOW ^[[33m
BLUE ^[[34m
MAGENTA ^[[35m
CYAN ^[[36m
WHITE ^[[37m
-
LIGHT BLACK ^[[1;30m
LIGHT RED ^[[1;31m
LIGHT GREEN ^[[1;32m
LIGHT YELLOW ^[[1;33m
LIGHT BLUE ^[[1;34m
LIGHT MAGENTA ^[[1;35m
LIGHT CYAN ^[[1;36m
LIGHT WHITE ^[[1;37m
-
BLACK BG ^[[40m
RED BG ^[[41m
GREEN BG ^[[42m
YELLOW BG ^[[43m
BLUE BG ^[[44m
MAGENTA BG ^[[45m
CYAN BG ^[[46m
WHITE BG ^[[47m

Thank you very much. :)

In alt.irc, wyv <wy...@cris.com> writes:

> You're missing a bunch of colors there, here's all the color codes I've
> got.  "BG" is "background" abbrev'd, and ^[ is always the literal Ctrl+[
> character, which is not displayed here:

It's known as ESC or Escape.  :)

# Attribute codes have the form xx;xx;xx where one code is the attribute,
# another is the foreground color, and the third is the background color.
# If only one or two of those three classes of attributes is to be
# changed, the rest can be omitted.  The codes are as follows:
#
# Attribute codes: 
#    00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
# Text color codes:
#    30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
# Background color codes:
#    40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
#
# To change text attributes, send the sequence:
#
#    ESC [ <attribute> m
#
# leaving off the spaces, where ESC is C-[ or octal character 033 and
# <attribute> is one of those attribute codes.

For example, use ESC [ 1;32 m (no spaces) to turn text bright green.  (Or,
equivalently, ESC [ 32;1 m ).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rr...@cs.stanford.edu)      <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

wyv wrote:
> 
> In article <Pin...@cloud9.net>,
> moo...@cloud9.net says...
> >
> >I have an ircii script at http://www.cloud9.net/~moocat/colors.irc
> 
> You're missing a bunch of colors there, here's all the color codes I've got.
> "BG" is "background" abbrev'd, and ^[ is always the literal Ctrl+[ character,
> which is not displayed here:
> 
> STOP COLORS ^[[0m
> BLINKING ^[[5m
> -
> BLACK ^[[30m
> RED ^[[31m
> GREEN ^[[32m
> YELLOW ^[[33m
> BLUE ^[[34m
> MAGENTA ^[[35m
> CYAN ^[[36m
> WHITE ^[[37m
> -
> LIGHT BLACK ^[[1;30m
> LIGHT RED ^[[1;31m
> LIGHT GREEN ^[[1;32m
> LIGHT YELLOW ^[[1;33m
> LIGHT BLUE ^[[1;34m
> LIGHT MAGENTA ^[[1;35m
> LIGHT CYAN ^[[1;36m
> LIGHT WHITE ^[[1;37m
> -
> BLACK BG ^[[40m
> RED BG ^[[41m
> GREEN BG ^[[42m
> YELLOW BG ^[[43m
> BLUE BG ^[[44m
> MAGENTA BG ^[[45m
> CYAN BG ^[[46m
> WHITE BG ^[[47m
> 
> Thank you very much. :);*)

-- 
MZ�

In article <qum...@cyclone.stanford.edu>, rr...@cs.stanford.edu 
says...
>
>In alt.irc, wyv <wy...@cris.com> writes:
>
>> You're missing a bunch of colors there, here's all the color codes I've
>> got.  "BG" is "background" abbrev'd, and ^[ is always the literal Ctrl+[
>> character, which is not displayed here:
>
>It's known as ESC or Escape.  :)

Yeah, I know, but that doesn't exactly matter.

># Attribute codes have the form xx;xx;xx where one code is the attribute,
># another is the foreground color, and the third is the background color.
># If only one or two of those three classes of attributes is to be
># changed, the rest can be omitted.  The codes are as follows:
>#
># Attribute codes: 
>#    00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
># Text color codes:
>#    30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
># Background color codes:
>#    40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
>#
># To change text attributes, send the sequence:
>#
>#    ESC [ <attribute> m
>#
># leaving off the spaces, where ESC is C-[ or octal character 033 and
># <attribute> is one of those attribute codes.
>
>For example, use ESC [ 1;32 m (no spaces) to turn text bright green.  (Or,
>equivalently, ESC [ 32;1 m ).

Well, thanks for pointing that <attribute> (xx;xx;xx) part out to me, I wasn't 
*quite* aware of that, although I knew that the ;'s in the ANSI color codes had 
something to do with how the string worked. :) Wow, I can now go share my knew 
knowledge. ;)
Oh yeah, n I've never really had any trouble with the "longer" way of doing 
it, which is, basically, doing everything separately.
^[[31m^[[42m^[[05mHello^[[0m
Will output "Hello" with red text, a green background, and blinking just as 
well as
^[[31;42;05mHello^[[0m
will, if I understood you correctly. Please correct me if I'm wrong. :P

wyv

In alt.irc, wy...@cris.com said...
| Oh yeah, n I've never really had any trouble with the "longer" way of doing 
| it, which is, basically, doing everything separately.
| ^[[31m^[[42m^[[05mHello^[[0m
| Will output "Hello" with red text, a green background, and blinking just as 
| well as
| ^[[31;42;05mHello^[[0m
| will, if I understood you correctly. Please correct me if I'm wrong. :P

Both will work.  The second is usually preferred because it's (a) less to
type, and (b) makes the terminal do less work.  One of those billionth-of-
a-second things, you know.

-James

-- 
James Sneeringer :: Opinions expressed are not necessarily those
jv...@ocslink.com  :: of Oberlander Communications Systems, Inc.