Re: [PATCH 4/4] console_codes.4: document more xterm codes

Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 17:30:17 +0200
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Hi Jan,

On 2026-07-08T14:14:58+0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>
> ---
>  man/man4/console_codes.4 | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man4/console_codes.4 b/man/man4/console_codes.4
> index e309293ca..a34adc57f 100644
> --- a/man/man4/console_codes.4
> +++ b/man/man4/console_codes.4
> @@ -754,7 +754,36 @@ T}
>  ESC ] 1 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set icon name to \f[I]txt\f[].
>  ESC ] 2 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set window title to \f[I]txt\f[].
>  ESC ] 4 ; \f[I]num\f[] ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set color \f[I]num\f[] (0-255) to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 5 ; 0 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the color for bold substitution to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 5 ; 1 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the color for underline substitution to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 5 ; 2 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the color for blinking substitution to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 5 ; 3 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	T{
> +Set the color for reverse substitution to \f[I]txt\f[]. Because xterm still

Please use semantic newlines.  See man-pages(7):

$ MANWIDTH=72 man man-pages | awk '/Use semantic newlines/,/^$/'
   Use semantic newlines
     In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be started on
     new lines, long sentences should be split  into  lines  at  clause
     breaks  (commas,  semicolons, colons, and so on), and long clauses
     should be split at phrase boundaries.  This convention,  sometimes
     known as "semantic newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of
     patches, which often operate at the level of individual sentences,
     clauses, or phrases.


Cheers,
Alex

> +reverses fg-bg pairs, the effect is that only the background of a character
> +cell is colorized this way.
> +T}
> +ESC ] 5 ; 4 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the color for italic substitution to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 6 ; 0 ; \f[I]val\f[] ST	Toggle bold rendition: 0=bold, 1=substitute by color.
> +ESC ] 6 ; 1 ; \f[I]val\f[] ST	Toggle underscore rendition: 0=underscore, 1=color.
> +ESC ] 6 ; 2 ; \f[I]val\f[] ST	Toggle blinking rendition: 0=blinking, 1=color.
> +ESC ] 6 ; 3 ; \f[I]val\f[] ST	Toggle reverse rendition: 0=reverse, 1=color.
> +ESC ] 6 ; 4 ; \f[I]val\f[] ST	Toggle italic rendition: 0=italic, 1=color.
>  ESC ] 10 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the foreground text color to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 11 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the background color to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 12 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the text cursor color to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 13 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the mouse cursor foreground color to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 14 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the mouse cursor background color to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 15 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the Tektronix foreground color to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 16 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the Tektronix background color to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 17 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	T{
> +Set the background text color for reverse video (provided it is not substituted
> +with 6;3;1) to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +T}
> +ESC ] 18 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	Set the Tektronix cursor color to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +ESC ] 19 ; \f[I]txt\f[] ST	T{
> +Set the foreground text color for reverse video (provided it is not substituted
> +with 6;3;1) to \f[I]txt\f[].
> +T}
>  ESC ] 46 ; \f[I]name\f[] ST	T{
>  Change log file to
>  .I name
> @@ -763,6 +792,18 @@ T}
>  ESC ] 50 ; \f[I]fn\f[] ST	T{
>  Set font to \f[I]fn\f[] (normally disabled; cf. the "allowFontOps" resource)
>  T}
> +ESC ] 104 ; \f[I]num\f[] ST	Reset color for mode 4;\f[I]num\f[]
> +ESC ] 105 ; \f[I]num\f[] ST	Reset color for mode 5;\f[I]num\f[]
> +ESC ] 106 ; \f[I]num\f[] ; \f[I]val\f[] ST	T{
> +Exactly equal to 6;\f[I]num\f[];\f[I]val\f[]. (no "reset" logic)
> +T}
> +ESC ] 110 ST	T{
> +Reset color for mode 10. (Codes 111-119 map to resetting modes 11-19,
> +respectively.)
> +T}
> +ESC ] \f[I]mode\f[] ; ? ST	T{
> +Query the respective property/color/etc. (modes 4,5,10-19,50)
> +T}
>  .TE
>  .P
>  It recognizes the following with slightly modified meaning
> -- 
> 2.54.0
> 
> 

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