Ansi escape sequences...

Dan ml at mutox.org
Fri May 2 03:31:05 UTC 2008


Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Dan wrote"
> |Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> |> I tried:
> |>>  echo "\e[5;31mHello World"
> |>  
> |> and the red "Hello World" does not blink.
> |
> |try echo -e.
> |
> |No idea on blinking text, but your example above, combined 
> |with echo -e 
> |turned my terminal text red.
> 
> Yes, the color red worked - what you were supposed to
> get is BLINKING red - that is where the problem is!
> 
> So it seems that ansi escape sequence for BLINKING is
> broken.  Remember when we had broken symbolic links?
> The BLINKED red.  This does not work.

It works for me on the console and in xterm, but not in gnome-terminal.

So I guess its an issue with gnome-terminal.




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